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Hit Detection @hitdetection.bsky.social · 6h

Jacob Geller previously worked with Hit Detection on a freelance basis and is no longer working with us. Our thoughts are with survivors of sexual assault. We have no further comment at this time.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is the risk to humanity they keep warning us about that they’re going to literally burn all the money in existence while achieving fuck all?

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Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Huuuge Space Dwarf news! Exö-Squad Wârnug boxed sets are available! To you! Now! Today! Right now! ontosgames.co.uk Please help spread the news!

Exö-Squad Wârnug Space Dwarf boxed sets. Lots of them. A veritable Stock Mountain.

Exö-Squad Wârnug in action. Space Dwarfs on a nice green hill. How tranquil. Maybe they're marching over a golf course?

Exö-Squad Wârnug. Mighty Space Dwarf miniatures on a blue fade background.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The plastic tat that comes with that £350 GTA VI collector's edition is incredible. It looks like one of those My Little Pony magazines my kids used to get that comes with a toy. And it doesn't include the game! Amazing stuff Rockstar, no notes. Put me back on the blacklist, IDGAF

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited about Control Resonant. This is normal and fine. Normal. However, I keep looking at the download progress bar and singing “Happy biiiirthday Mr Resonaaant” like I’m Marilyn Monroe and I have to accept this is not normal.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I should be thrilled by this news but honestly it tastes like ashes. You sacked everyone and told us it was dead! And now because people kept playing anyway and Marathon’s a disaster you’re going back to the well? So cynical, so depressing. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-inte...

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‘We intend to earn back your trust’: Bungie announces plans to bring back Destiny 2 and improve Marathon | VGC

The studio will restore vaulted Destiny 2 content then working on “new stories and games”…

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

I did all the customer support for Vlambeer and I didn't even install a permanent atmosphere of fear and distrust inside the company by announcing 2,000 future layoffs amidst 2,000 immediate layoffs like some weird Hunger Games-esque reign of terror situation, but I guess IGN wanted to do propaganda

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Having a delightful time playing Star Wars Zero Company. XCOM stuff is a genre I apparently never get bored of. Can’t wait for 40K Chaos Gate Deathwatch.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

BBC with another comedy AI story. "AI boom" boosts economy says the banner headline. Companies with high turnover "appear to be involved with AI" says somebody, but apparently it's "difficult to quantify the exact impact of AI". But apparently not difficult enough to preclude an AI BOOM headline?

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The iPhone Duo price seems mental until you realise it’s not priced so you can actually own it, and that everything will be like this before too long. You’ll never own a PlayStation 6.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel like every time I go to the BBC News site there's some PR post for OpenAI or Anthropic masquerading as serious news on AI. Just because one of these IPO-chasing dipshit companies posts a blog saying how magical and dangerous their tech is doesn't mean you have to breathlessly write it up.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Time to sit down and crylaugh through Ipswich 2, Liverpool 2.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sure picked a great year to spec out my daughter’s first proper PC

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/09/2026

This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have a mountain of complex and challenging things going on in my life, so naturally my most pressing concern is whether I should spend six months start a 40k 2nd Edition army midway through painting my 40k White Scars.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve finished one chapter of The Wicked and The Warped and I’m already giggling and reading bits aloud. So happy to be back with Trazyn.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.

Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

God it’s tedious watching the football press fawn over Mourinho, especially after he used his hagio-documentary to lie about the Eva Carneiro episode yet again. A bully and a constant gaslighter. Can’t wait for him to screw it all up and get sacked!

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“How was your weekend?” “Great! I spent two hours refreshing the Warhammer site to preorder a limited edition of a book I already have!”

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fun realisation: I can still remember @danwhitehead.net's postal address off by heart from sending him so many review copies while editing Eurogamer. I cannot remember some of *my* previous addresses off by heart 😂

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Matthew Karch, CEO of multi-studio dev & publisher Saber Interactive, made the odd decision to stand up & shit his pants in front of the entire games industry over an ex-employee criticizing the studios' use of gen AI. My condolences to everyone who has to work around this type of feeble leadership

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seeing Hugh Laurie expressing support for Sophie Cunningham and *Graham fucking Linehan* is beyond depressing

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Suboden Khan joins the growing White Scars army. Quite pleased with this one! #40k

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

More of this sort of thing please world

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

First finished mini from the Armageddon box. Quite pleased with this one! Switching to Pro Acryl bold white titanium for the base coat made it a lot more enjoyable to work on, too. Citadel White Scar is just too lumpy and coverage is terrible. #40k

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally sat down and finished my White Scars Outrider squad. Not sure what to do next. Maybe it’s time to do a character…

A Warhammer 40K White Scars Outrider squad.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yeah I can probably live without you summarising an address label for me but thanks Google you fuckwits

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's all very well EA announcing FC 27 but they still haven't told Sky Broadband customers in the UK why FC 26 constantly crashes in the menus despite it being this way for around six months. Around 6m Sky customers in the UK. I doubt it affects everyone, but forums make it obvious it's widespread.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We’ve been going to Brighton Trans Pride for the last few years and today was the busiest I’ve ever seen it. Thousands of people united by love and determination to overcome all the bullshit. You love to see it.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I know nobody who sees these posts gives a crap about my Warhammer wittering, but I am indecently thrilled that a White Scar space marine has popped up in the Gaunt’s Ghosts book I’m reading. As you were.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That’s not how the song goes Alan

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well, Kane's clearly a lot bigger

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve read an absurd amount of 40K and Heresy books and Robert Rath is one of my favourite authors, right up there with Abnett and ADB, so hearing there’s a new book from him and it’s about Trazyn and Orikan again elicits a genuine SQUEEEE! www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

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Trazyn and Orikan return in The Wicked and the Warped

The next Black Library novel by Robert Rath is coming.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

At Greggs HQ this morning, a lot of bleary-eyed marketing people will desperately try to work out if anything on their menu can be considered Norwegian enough to be banned on Saturday

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I would like to thank organisers for moving the England game back to stupid o’clock so I don’t have to watch it.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My brother has discovered that he needs a new Xbox to play GTA 6 and the 32 voice memos and two missed calls I got from him during my last couple of hours of meetings suggest he is not taking this news well.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Agree with all of this from @christapsell.bsky.social. None of these companies care about you. And without viable competition, they don’t even need to pretend any more.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have felt like posting about the Bungie layoffs, the Xbox layoffs, etc etc, but all I can summon at the moment is a stream of inchoate fucking *rage*, so I will save that for the group chat. But my heart is broken for all the good people who just wanted to make cool shit for eager fans.

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No physical version of GTA something something expect us to smile

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Tom Bramwell @brrrammers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just buy a Steam Machine, use it for a bit then sell it for a profit when they raise the price by 50%.

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Stonks Up Meme: Market Gains

ALT: Stonks Up Meme: Market Gains

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