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Kelsey

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Resident horror expert & senior guides ghoul @eurogamer | MCV30u30 '24 | Contact kelsey.raynor@eurogamer.net | She/they ✨

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happens when you've got nothing to write about and can't retire because you're only 43? lowpolymess.com/28-the-wait/
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#28 - The wait
What to do when creative inspiration just isn't coming.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Silent Hill: Townfall is an often phenomenal ride; reverent to its roots, rich with ideas, and yes, properly unnerving too. Our review: bit.ly/4iFuB58
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Zach Cregger has done what Christophe Gans could never and that's adapt a survival horror game into a film that's actually fucking GOOD
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
update: i'm parting ways with my freelance news gig at game developer at the end of the month. helping the team since april 2025 has been a great experience and has taught me a lot if you're looking for an experienced b2b news writer, or just an experienced freelancer that can do it all, i'm around
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TIL idk what a meteorologist is but I did learn I was probably an artist in another life soooooooo
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A vicious attack on the arts. Important reporting from me lowpolymess.com/26-a-vicious...
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#26 - A vicious attack on the arts
What happens when you are betrayed by your own family over a drawing while playing Pictionary?
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm somehow a finalist for Women In Games Journalism Impact Award this year! Hugely appreciate whoever thought of me when choosing their nominations. Thank you, and congrats to the other finalists 🕺🏻 womeningamesawards.com/2026-finalis...
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2026 Finalists | MCV Women in Games Awards
This year we received hundreds of incredible entries and nominations and, after a lot of careful consideration, we’re excited to reveal the amazing individuals that have made the shortlist and are in the running to win a Women In Games Award!
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I found another opportunity to write about Elden Ring for Eurogamer, and it won't be the last. Simply can't stop talking about this game years on, and glad I'm constantly being given new reasons to do so.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Elden Ring plays much better than I'd expected on Switch 2, but it isn't without its flaws www.eurogamer.net/elden-ring-t...
Melina appears in Elden Ring.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s my turn now! The newsletter didn’t take off so I’ve been laid off. If you’re looking for someone with 15 years of experience as a writer and editor, please get in touch. I’ve also written dozens of mock reviews and my clients say they’re good.
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Respec @respec.net · 16/07/2026
What the heck is happening to Love and Deepspace? www.respec.net/feature/101-what-hec…
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What the heck is happening to Love and Deepspace? | Respec
LaDS Version 6.0 just launched without most of its content, after a new husbando was announced and then abruptly cancelled within the span of a week.
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Rebecca Jones @greenlady17.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My latest for Respec, in which I try to untangle what's been going on with #LoveAndDeepspace over the past few weeks... not exactly a fun one to write, but I feel like it's important that writers who care about this game, its creatives, and its community attempt to keep a record of what's happening.
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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 10/07/2026
This week's Respec podcast is out. We talk the Xbox layoffs, launching the site, the fight to keep discs, some retro nostalgia, and as two eras of VG247 collide, it all naturally ends in bullying: www.respec.net/podcast/95-r...
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Big news! @apzonerunner.com and I have launched a new video games website. @respec.net is our attempt to create a highly curated multi-format site that has that club feel you used to get from the best magazines (and frankly, my beloved VideoGamer back in the day) www.respec.net/feature/87-w...
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Welcome to Respec: A word from the Editors | Respec
Welcome to our new little corner of the internet. Why a new video game website, and why now? Allow us to explain...
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Our Pride Week continues with the surprising queerness of Elden Ring www.eurogamer.net/pride-week-t...
A purple-hued image showing a feminine character hiding in a lot of purple hair and some purple robes.
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Chris Tapsell @christapsell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Late to sharing this because whadda day, but here's @badkirbys.bsky.social's delightful essay on love, longing and acceptance in Elden Ring - a lovely palate cleanser amongst the grimness of the news cycle.
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I was a FromSoftware skeptic, but Elden Ring won me over with its surprisingly queer exploration of love, longing and acceptance in The Lands Between
Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kelsey …
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Connor Makar @connormakar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If you are a Bungie dev laid off as part of these cuts, or a former / remaining dev who wants to talk, you can contact me on Signal at ConnorMakar.62 I would love to get an accurate picture of how this all went wrong.
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My house is a sauna and I've become one with the floor
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last night I genuinely had to check I was not hallucinating after a full blown band started performing in the garden next door - violinist, trumpets, the lot - and they were playing Lost Woods and Delfino Plaza
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Read this. You might enjoy it, you might not. Either way the number goes up and I become slightly happier. I've been conditioned to only find contentment through the number going up. Please make the number go up. Number go up. lowpolymess.com/13-lost/
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#13 - Lost
We'd been walking in the mid-day sun for almost an hour. Six of us, including three kids, all near the point of giving up. Except there's no giving up in a maze - we’d just be stuck there. Sure, given...
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Claire - open for work 🦈 @thesharkbit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Shocked & heartbroken to say Team17 PR & Events dept & thus my role have been made redundant. ✨Looking for new roles using my 15 years supporting projects & brands across Marketing, PR, Brand & Comms✨ I appreciate any help that comes my way. Dhia libh uilig💚 (More info in post under this)
Some key art from a few games I've worked on past couple of years (I have worked on a lot more these are just some highlights).
Featured are Date Everything!, Hell Let Loose Vietnam, Banquet for Fools, Lumentale, Alien Isolation and Worms franchise
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
To those of you who knew of the Danny Devito body pillow, he is no more
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
100 subs to my newsletter now! If you enjoy reading it, please share and consider becoming a paid subscriber lowpolymess.com
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Low Poly Mess
A sideways look at the video games industry and a variety of other things.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Good morning! I highly recommend anyone who thinks they might possibly interested to apply for my job at IGN. It is a fantastic (UNION!!!!!) job working with the absolute best people. I have loved it with all my heart. You will too. www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...
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Search Jobs - Ziff Davis
We hire only the best and brightest because we know it takes great people to make a great company. We embrace the power of collaboration, have an entrepreneurial spirit and promote a work environment ...
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Rebecca Jones @greenlady17.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you aren't reading Tom's newsletter yet then please consider correcting that oversight, these just keep getting better and better Also Tom if you ever decide to start a Low Poly Mess merch line I will 100% pre-order an Audrey the Spider plush
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I have to stop myself from buying a Kindle at least once a week currently. It's been 3 months of back and forth with my Amazon basket so far and I'm beginning to think I should just do it
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special in two weeks... I am healing
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Zoe Delahunty-Light @zoedels.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sadly my role as Video Producer on Eurogamer's YouTube channel has been made redundant. After 7 years it's a heart-breaking goodbye, but I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be continuing to create the deepest of dives into videogame lore on my own YouTube channel! 🔍 YouTube.com/ZoeDels
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Zoe Delahunty-Light
videogame lore addict, writer, flesh vessel. lesbian.
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Chris Tapsell @christapsell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals.

I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). 

Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. 

While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue.

In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…
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Henry Stockdale @henrystockdale.com · 01/03/2026
This is often how I feel. That and also, some things are better kept off main
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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 23/02/2026
Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site
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Welcome to One More Catch
Pokémon Go coverage is evolving...
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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 27/02/2026
Personal news: I'm leaving my Editor-at-large role at Eurogamer & Gamer Network as part of new cuts. I last year approached my move to Eurogamer & VG247's skeletonization with reluctance, but I ultimately greatly enjoyed giving EG a go. But now after 10yrs & in difficult conditions, it's time to go.
Ryu walking into the sunset in the ending of Street Fighter II. The caption reads: "Already seeking the next challenge, ceremony means nothing to him."
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I couldn't have asked for a better boss than Tom. He is (and I know I say this about all my colleagues past and present but that's because it's true) one of the best people in the biz and cares deeply about the work he does and the people he works with. Hire him. He's great and I'll miss him a lot.
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Well then. After 9 years my role of Editorial Director at Eurogamer/IGNE has been made redundant. If you’re reading this and feel I have a lot of valuable experience (I do), I’m keen to explore any opportunities (full time, consulting, other) in the games industry. I am great.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Nioh 3 feels like the series has finally refined its formula to the point of excellence. Our review: bit.ly/4kl6zuT
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is a Gaviscon appreciation skeet
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a heart shaped box of gaviscon next to a heart shaped sign that says " my beloved "
ALT: a heart shaped box of gaviscon next to a heart shaped sign that says " my beloved "
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I got a key in Blue Prince last night that I'd been working towards for a while then my dumbass was like "oh wow ok I'm done for now" and called it a day. I forgot I was playing a fucking roguelite despite being 30 hours deep. I had a crash out for the history books
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
One of the first people in the industry to have treated me as a friend, always offering guidance when I second-guessed myself. So kind, caring, genuine, and funny. I really can't believe it. I'm grateful I ever got to know you Pat.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
What if FromSoftware's next mainline game was fully playable in co-op? What then? In 2025, Elden Ring Nightreign was my playground for experimentation www.eurogamer.net/in-2025-elde...
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I've lived in this particular house for over a year, and only last night did I finally decide to buy a lamp for our living room/kitchen. No longer am I condemned to using the big light. Why didn't I do this a year ago
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Connor do some work
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I love everything about this image but especially the fact that Hornet looks so damn cute on DK's shoulder
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shaydh @shaydh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Me when I get myself a paper clip
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Why are Arc Raiders players so averse to PvP? To find out, we spoke to a sociologist www.eurogamer.net/why-are-arc-...
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore. Our review: bit.ly/49bVn01
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Chris Bratt
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Kelsey @badkirbys.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I got sick and therefore won't be wearing my Pikmin costume tonight. RIP, you were going to be iconic 🙏🏻
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Final Sentence is proof that there's no greater horror than typing under pressure www.eurogamer.net/final-senten...
A pair of work an old-fashioned type-writer, as a person is sitting at a desk with a typewriter
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