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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · Jun 10
In April, I made the rarest of pilgrimages: to Tokyo, and the top of a skyscraper, to meet Hideo Kojima. I went with one question: why still make games? At 61, he has made them for almost forty years. But he has seen his end.

My latest for GQ: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hide...
The life and death of Hideo Kojima
As Hideo Kojima prepares for the release of Death Stranding 2, the pioneering video game director continues to inject his iconoclastic vision into ever-more ambitious projects
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
samwrite.bsky.social
Motherfucker got Letterboxd. Pope in the Criterion Closet.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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jeremypeel.bsky.social
I still use the long-discontinued Steam Link streaming device every week. Not many people know that about me. *pause for gasps*
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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samwrite.bsky.social
Spoke with my boy Todd Howard - about the 10th anniversary of Fallout 4, his chances of surviving the apocalypse, and shadow dropping The Elder Scrolls 6. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fall...
Todd Howard on 10 years of Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls 6: 'We needed a creative reset'
A decade on from its Game of the Year-winning triumph, Todd Howard reminisces on how Fallout 4 changed Bethesda Game Studios, its TV show adaptation and playtesting The Elder Scrolls 6
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
samwrite.bsky.social
Spoke with my boy Todd Howard - about the 10th anniversary of Fallout 4, his chances of surviving the apocalypse, and shadow dropping The Elder Scrolls 6. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fall...
Todd Howard on 10 years of Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls 6: 'We needed a creative reset'
A decade on from its Game of the Year-winning triumph, Todd Howard reminisces on how Fallout 4 changed Bethesda Game Studios, its TV show adaptation and playtesting The Elder Scrolls 6
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 5d
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I spent an afternoon with Miles Jacobson to talk about building (and cancelling) Football Manager over a more than 30 year career. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/foot...
The man who cancelled Football Manager: ‘I needed a hug, not a kicking’
Miles Jacobson has World Cup winners on WhatsApp, dozens of football clubs who pay for his scouting network and 20 million players who all swear by Football Manager. Until last year, when the series' ...
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I have a lot of time for Miles Jacobson. He was incredibly generous and kind with me when I was just starting out in the industry, even though I'm not really a football person. He's just a good bloke.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
samwrite.bsky.social
I spent an afternoon with Miles Jacobson to talk about building (and cancelling) Football Manager over a more than 30 year career. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/foot...
The man who cancelled Football Manager: ‘I needed a hug, not a kicking’
Miles Jacobson has World Cup winners on WhatsApp, dozens of football clubs who pay for his scouting network and 20 million players who all swear by Football Manager. Until last year, when the series' ...
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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jjaron.bsky.social
We used to be a country
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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mattleone.bsky.social
Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.
designroom.bsky.social Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 29d
🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site
Design Room
Video game oral histories
designroom.site
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
samwrite.bsky.social
Took a photo of a new jacket and it made me look like a force ghost.
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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PlayStation: The First 30 Years book up for preorder at Read Only Memory (Deluxe $325, Standard $125) buff.ly/UnC8Lrf

Deluxe Edition limited to 1994 copies

More details: buff.ly/PjBiUwt
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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PlayStation: The First 30 Years

➡️ blog.playstation.com/2025/09/29/c...

Sony is releasing a new photography book with "never-before-seen prototypes, concept sketches, and design models that shaped hardware development at Sony Interactive Entertainment" - coming Spring 2026.
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
samwrite.bsky.social
Quite crazy and proud to say I’ve spent the last few months working on writing this. It’s very cool.
playstation.com PlayStation @playstation.com · Sep 29
A look back at three decades of play 💙

PlayStation: The First 30 Years, a new large-format photography book, launches spring 2026. Pre-orders start today: play.st/42cp78U
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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mcslaven.bsky.social
Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe instructing Joey to say "Fix the economy and public services" with him at the end instead saying "Digital national ID cards!"
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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dly.bsky.social
you’re telling me this entire Siberian Orchestra is trans?
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.
A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025
September 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.
shadihamid.bsky.social Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · Sep 18
One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.
September 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
samwrite.bsky.social
Game devs: your office is maybe the most boring place on Earth to speak to someone.
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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agent 47, welcome to england
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Sep 18
Look who came with
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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edwinet.bsky.social
Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...
I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story included a cast of settlers, anti-occupation rabbis, and West-Bank Palestinians who had spent their lives fearing that their homes would be stolen, and that if they were killed or dispossessed, there would be no recourse for them. I ran into the story editor in the hallway, who said he was having trouble balancing the narrative because all the Israeli characters seemed evil, while all the Palestinians were angels. A long section that documented, without any editorializing, that Palestinian dispossession was an ongoing process that had begun long before October 7th was whittled down to a single paragraph after a series of fights between the editor-in-chief and the story editor on one side, and myself and the freelance writer on the other. Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM