Matthew Reynolds
@mattreyn.games
Freelance video games editor and writer for hire. Previously an editor at Polygon, Eurogamer, Digital Spy. BAFTA member. Mostly RTs, retro games and Pokémon Go. He / him. Late for everything
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Matthew Reynolds
@mattreyn.games
· May 1
With today’s changes at Polygon, I've made the decision to step away as a deputy editor. It’s been a privilege to work with an incredibly talented and supportive team who I'll really miss, and I’m enormously proud of what we’ve accomplished in our time together.
My main Go Wild target this weekend so nice to get it done early 😮💨
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My main Go Wild target this weekend so nice to get it done early 😮💨
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I played the Metroid Prime 4 demo and it’s worrying. Samus has a cold and frequently sneezes all over the inside of her helmet. There’s no way to clean it so you have to wait for the snot to drip off the glass. I hope she isn’t sick for the whole game.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I played the Metroid Prime 4 demo and it’s worrying. Samus has a cold and frequently sneezes all over the inside of her helmet. There’s no way to clean it so you have to wait for the snot to drip off the glass. I hope she isn’t sick for the whole game.
Is now a good time to reveal my latest amiibo purchase
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Is now a good time to reveal my latest amiibo purchase
I'm hoping the likes of Chiaki and Xbox streaming can be carried over between devices - I'm never setting these up on another Steam device again.
Making microSD cards full of games interoperable across Steam devices is really smart www.theverge.com/games/818602...
Valve is making microSD cards the next game cartridges
Plug and play.
www.theverge.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm hoping the likes of Chiaki and Xbox streaming can be carried over between devices - I'm never setting these up on another Steam device again.
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Do I know any Edinburgh-based games journalists?
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Do I know any Edinburgh-based games journalists?
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The Rockstar union case made its way into UK Parliament earlier today
Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Rockstar union case made its way into UK Parliament earlier today
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This is great and the diagram is also great
appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias)
azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games
What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?
azhdarchid.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is great and the diagram is also great
As someone who has been putting off a PC upgrade forever, my patience may have just been rewarded.
More details on our visit to Valve on the brand-new DF website, kicking off with everything you need to know about the new Steam Machine: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/han...
Hands-On with Steam Machine: Valve's New PC/Console Hybrid
An irresistible form-factor, but what about performance?
www.digitalfoundry.net
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As someone who has been putting off a PC upgrade forever, my patience may have just been rewarded.
It’s actually happening 😳
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s actually happening 😳
Sega will do anything to avoid bringing Ryo Hazuki to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is getting another three free characters, and yes one of them is NiGHTS
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is set to receive three new free Sega characters over the next few months.
www.eurogamer.net
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sega will do anything to avoid bringing Ryo Hazuki to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
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Editors - Looking for a WoW Midnight beta (or beyond) person? I've been playing WoW since closed beta days in 2004 and I've written about it for SO many outlets (including Edge last year which was v cool).
Reach out if you need a WoW person! :)
Reach out if you need a WoW person! :)
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Editors - Looking for a WoW Midnight beta (or beyond) person? I've been playing WoW since closed beta days in 2004 and I've written about it for SO many outlets (including Edge last year which was v cool).
Reach out if you need a WoW person! :)
Reach out if you need a WoW person! :)
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you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
A good article to link to the next time someone says games criticism doesn't matter
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A good article to link to the next time someone says games criticism doesn't matter
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Somehow missed Digital Foundry launching its own site last week 🎉
Welcome to the New Digital Foundry Website!
Why we're doing this - and how you can help.
www.digitalfoundry.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Somehow missed Digital Foundry launching its own site last week 🎉
Never wanted a background in Pokémon Go so much www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRo...
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Never wanted a background in Pokémon Go so much www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRo...
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
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I keep seeing this thumbnail and thinking it's a video where Edgar Wright says something like, "Michael Wood Services after a big hotel breakfast and a long drive, the relief was immense"
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I keep seeing this thumbnail and thinking it's a video where Edgar Wright says something like, "Michael Wood Services after a big hotel breakfast and a long drive, the relief was immense"
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It’s Monday. You know what that means
October 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
It’s Monday. You know what that means
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I've got the best idea for the BBC Director General and CEO of BBC News roles...
I hear these two are free.
I hear these two are free.
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I've got the best idea for the BBC Director General and CEO of BBC News roles...
I hear these two are free.
I hear these two are free.
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Guitar Hero turns 20 today (💀) - enjoyed this piece on the impact it had on the bands featured, including DragonForce and *that* Guitar Hero III track:
Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations
Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Guitar Hero turns 20 today (💀) - enjoyed this piece on the impact it had on the bands featured, including DragonForce and *that* Guitar Hero III track: