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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It's fundraising season again! My first #charity run of 2026 is in June, doing the Leamington Half Marathon for The Myton Hospices. Here's more about them, and the fundraiser link is below. Please donate, share, or support however you can. Thank you ☺️ www.justgiving.com/page/chris-g... #running

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Are you KIDDING MEEEEE been up for almost 24 hours but never felt more alive THE CARDIAC BEARS STRIKE AGAIN 🔥

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

BEAR DOWN BABY 🥶🥶🥶 That's why you stay up until 4:30am to watch your team This team is made of something very different to the Chicago Bears I've known. We've been waiting decades for this 🐻

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Star Wars: Galactic Racer announced by Fuse Games (ex-Criterion devs), coming in 2026 #TheGameAwards

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Star Wars Galactic Racer coming 2026

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12/12/2025

First trailer for 'Star Wars: Galactic Racer' 🎮 A new racing game releasing in 2026

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We're working on a Star Wars game. Not just that, but a Star Wars racing game, made by the minds behind Burnout and Need For Speed. Insane. It's already been a brilliant journey with the @fusegames.bsky.social team, and can't wait to go through the gears with them 🚀 #TheGameAwards

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Secret Mode - Chained Together 2v2 Race OUT NOW! @wearesecretmode.com · 02/12/2025

Come and get a *pincer* the action with Everything is Crab's Public Playtest 2! 🦀 With over 90 evolutions, eight difficulty levels, and a handful of new challenge runs to tackle, PP2's a great chance to try the game ahead of its 2026 release and it's LIVE NOW! store.steampowered.com/app/3...

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Not sure I've ever seen a head coach win in spite of their team more than Ben Johnson with the Bears. We'd be like 1-7 without him as HC He's in full 'do I have to do everything myself around here?' mode #NFL

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Heading home from Liverpool after a successful FORMAT with @wearesecretmode.com! Lots of lovely feedback for our games, and good vibes led by @allthefawkes.bsky.social 👾

Picture from FORMAT 2025 showing Secret Mode branded cups

Picture from FORMAT 2025 showing the Secret Mode space

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Before Forza Horizon, there was DiRT 3. Still the greatest vibe in a racing game. Minimalist menus. Grounded yet almost mystical at times. A game you wanna hang out in. Playing for the first time in nearly 10 years and looks/plays as good as any racer today IMO

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

JOB, DONE 💪 Three runs this year for @specialeffect.org.uk, ending today with a PB at the Oxford Half Marathon. More importantly, £500 raised for an incredible charity. Thank you everyone who donated and supported ❤️ #charity #running

Photo of the Oxford Half Marathon 2025 finishers medal

Photo of me running for SpecialEffect in the 2025 Oxford Half Marathon

Tracker graphic from the 2025 Oxford Half Marathon

Screengrab of the JustGiving fundraiser for SpecialEffect, raising £500

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Final call of the year (honest) for my @specialeffect.org.uk fundraiser! Will be running the Oxford Half Marathon on Sunday, the last of 3 big runs this year for the charity. Let’s do one final push to change people’s lives through the joy of gaming 💙🧡 www.justgiving.com/page/christ-...

Picture of a SpecialEffect shirt and race number for the Oxford Half Marathon 2025

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Anyone ever feel like your life is being controlled by Homer Simpson and he’s just replaying this short film over and over

Images from the “Football to the Groin” scene in The Simpsons

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Been storing this for almost half a year until I REALLY need it After an insane week, and finding out my Limit Break mentee got their job, we’re drowning our sorrows and celebrating with this one tomorrow 🍫

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Dudes if you ever catch me comparing myself to other people, you have total permission to kick me in the shins and say snap out of it you dummy

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨NEW GAME ALERT🚨 Earth Must Die The new game from @danthat.bsky.social Starring Joel Fry, Alex Horne, Martha Howe-Douglas, Mike Wozniak, Ben Starr, Tamsin Greig, Stevie Martin, Don Warrington, Matthew Holness, and loads more store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The Ryder Cup this year is a great example of this mad thing about spectator sports, where hurling abuse at players is seen as totally acceptable. Why? Pantomime banter, jabs in good spirit, sure. But why do sportspeople have to put up with genuine hate and abuse? It’s sport. Grow up.

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yup, we're hiring for another role in the @wearesecretmode.com Social/Community team! This Senior SoComm vacancy is live ☺️ We're looking for a proactive and experienced candidate to join the crew Pls share with folks and reach out if you have Qs! #gamedev hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

Graphic promoting a Senior Social Media & Community Manager vacancy at Secret Mode

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Gig time! (the band aren’t invisible. We’re just early) Bring on The Beths 👐

Photo outside the XOYO venue in Birmingham UK

Photo inside the XOYO venue in Birmingham UK

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Love is seeing a pair of ANYTHING next to each other - animals, objects, potatoes - and saying “awh look, it’s us”

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

'1.0 WHEN?' no longer! 🙌 Escape the Backrooms no-clips out of early access on October 23 for Steam! Mega to break this news with Fancy Games, and get the hype-train a-rollin' for 1.0 Just in time for Halloween 👻 #backrooms #gaming

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Just checked into the office for a night shift. Snacks are within arm's reach Let's do thisssss @convergence-gs.bsky.social

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Giving up a touchdown before halftime is what bad teams do Giving up a touchdown before halftime via a circus catch, assuming time has expired, literally walking to the locker room, coming back, then allowing an easy TD pass, is what the Chicago Bears do BIG difference 🤌 #NFL

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We’re hiring for a Social Media & Community Manager to join us at @wearesecretmode.com! Hyped that we're expanding our SoComm team to support a major new project. Feel free to reach out if you have questions, or share with anyone who may be interested 🗝️ #gamedev #socialmediajobs lnkd.in/eu-Y6gji

Graphic promoting a Social Media & Community Manager vacancy at Secret Mode

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Had zero sway in the decision here, but over the moon that 🦆FRED🦆 has made it in 🫶

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

May’ve got a medal this weekend, but feel like I deserve another after getting through work today, on three hours’ sleep, after watching the Chicago Bears personally betray me last night

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

WE DID IT! Great North Run was a huge challenge, but pushed through thanks to incredible support 🏃 We’re up to £480 raised for @specialeffect.org.uk, with one more run to go this year ❤️

Picture of me after the Great North Run, holding a green sign made by my fiancé

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

We ready 😮‍💨 almost time for the #GreatNorthRun! Still time to donate to my @specialeffect.org.uk fundraiser, if you’d be so kind 👇 www.justgiving.com/page/christ-...

Photo of my 2025 Great North Run bib and vest

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The big trip for the Great North Run is underway! Stopping off at The Forbidden Corner for the time-honoured tradition of ‘paying money to stare at lots of weird stuff’

Picture of the entrance for The Forbidden Corner

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The girl knows a good video game when she sees one

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Feel strongly that the Gilmore Girls theme song would be a god-tier karaoke song. Would absolutely bring the house down. Oh and yeah Hollow Knight: Silksong came out today lol

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Inside me is there are two wolves One is in an intense NFL fantasy football draft 🏈 The other is watching Bake Off 🍰

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

oh no, we didn’t order any takeaway for her

Picture of our cat Lola, turned away from the camera

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Secret Mode - Chained Together 2v2 Race OUT NOW! @wearesecretmode.com · 31/08/2025

Liverpool vs Arsenal... but it's 1980! Some rivalries are timeless; in NUTMEG!, you'll take your team through the trials and tribulations of English football Divisions during the 1980s and 1990s. Wishlist on Steam today! #LIVARS #LFC #COYG

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thought it just before it was said on commentary - Lando Norris trackside was so similar to Mika Hakkinen (my guy) in Monza ‘99 Gutted for him. Don’t have a particular favourite, but it’s no longer in his hands, through no fault of his own #F1 #DutchGP

Picture of Lando Norris after retiring from the 2025 Dutch GP

Picture of Mika Hakkinen after retiring from the 1999 Italian Grand Prix

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

WARNING: DUCKS INCLUDED 🦆 1 week until the #GreatNorthRun! It’s my 2nd of 3 charity runs this year for @specialeffect.org.uk. Please consider donating anything you can via the link below, and help change lives 💙🧡 www.justgiving.com/page/christ-...

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Excited for it to nearly be Autumn, or as it’s more commonly known: ‘Simon & Garfunkel Season’

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Discovery #65 of living with a cat for the first time: “Oh, so, this is just how our house smells now, I guess”

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It’s super cool that a community member would go to these lengths to send our team this. But as I’ve mentioned to the crew, it’s a response to the incredible work they’ve done with that community. A testament to what they’ve all achieved together. Dead proud of ‘em 🖤

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Bucket list item about to be ticked off ✅🤼‍♂️ #WWE

Picture from the WWE RAW show at Birmingham, UK in 2025

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just a little snoozing princess on her throne 🧡

Picture of our tortoise shell cat laying on a chair

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Two game announcements in two days 😵 we've been busy! Just revealed in the gamescom Awesome Indies, A Storied Life: Tabitha is a truly beautiful creation. Heartwarming, intriguing, and cosy and heck Give it a Wishlist pls: store.steampowered.com/app/3749330/... #gamescom #indiegames #indiedev

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A Storied Life: Tabitha on Steam

A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell. Complete a loved one's damaged memoirs by exploring their home and packing away their things.

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Huuuuuuge news today as @wearesecretmode.com partners up with Escape The Backrooms to become the game's publisher! A massive title that's just getting started 😵 Been exciting helping with this in the shadows for a lil while. Hyped to share more as we plan for 1.0 launch and beyond 🖤

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Two weeks ago this little lady would barely move from her pen, and flinched if we went anywhere near her Today she met me as I came home, walked round the house with me and let me fuss her She’s doing so well 🧡 (she definitely just wanted food)

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