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Bertie

@clert.bsky.social
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Associate editor at Eurogamer. Writes, sometimes podcasts, talks a lot. I'd rather live in a fantasy land. (He/him)

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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Campaign frames" in this book too - these are the not-quite pre-written campaigns but partially outlined campaigns. Including a very Hogwarts-adjacent boarding school in the sky where teenagers fly around on brooms. And crucially, in one of the pieces of art, there's a trans flag. Well played.
Two fantasy teenagers sit in a dorm room. One at a computer, one on a bed. There are fairy lights and there's a trans flag on the wall.A title page for a campaign framework in Daggerheart called Castle High - a floating boarding school in the sky.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Bit of text and then diagrams and sketches showing visual variations. It's as much info as you need to fire the imagination. The new Transformations (think vampire, werewolf, and some other more creative ones) are awesome, especially that they have built-in drawbacks. Lots more detail in the...
A page in a game book showing an ancestry or race, in this case a kind of earth elemental, and showing some sketches of themMore ancestry - races- in the Daggerheart game book. On one page is art and sketches of a fire elemental race, and on the other, air elementals
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There's some lovely stuff in the new Daggerheart expansion. Love that the monk-like Brawler subclass had stances that you move between, a bit like The Watcher in Slay the Spire. (Also love that the game has knuckledusters.) Love the way the game presents Ancestries (races), with a smallish...
An A4 sized game book for Daggerheart expansion Hope & Fear. The cover art shows a collection of fantasy heroes. Some with large bat wings, some that look like dragons, others with flaming heads.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's 940 am and today's spotted bad take (that sounds like a fish) is... (In relation to Larian maybe teasing something)
An image of text that says: divinity went unnoticed baldurs gate everyone played it ... I think when Larian begins to lose money they'll come crawling back to Hasbro
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Quake as a series means so much to Eurogamer's history, in fact, that we named our office toilets after Q2 maps (there are many more cubicles than pictured).
Two toilet doors with large lettering on them that show they're named after Quake 2 maps. One door is red with "The Edge - Q2DM1" written on it, and the other is blue with "Tokay's Towers - Q2DM2" written on it.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I can resist the Slay the Spire plushies No I can't
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
At last! #hades2
A victory screen in Hades 2 showing all the powers the character has - the boons - and all of the statistics and damage they've done
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
All I can think of after reading the Slay the Spire 2 patch notes www.eurogamer.net/slay-the-spi...
A nonchalant star-faced being on a thrown waves a hand as if unmoved by whatever is happening in front of them. It is The Regent from Slay the Spire 2
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
That is a good point! (From Inkle's book on game writing)
A photo of a paragraph in a book about worlds in games being hostile to the player - in a good way.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Err the daily challenges in Slay 2 are wild! Look at all those relics
Slay the Spire 2 in action. Three characters face off against each other in the middle of the screen - a small person with two knives, a skull mask and a green shawl; against a tall undead like queen with a dark crown, a glowing face and a staff, and a strange, three-legged, lantern-faced pet. At the bottom of the screen is a hand of cards. At the top of the screen is a row of assorted icons representing relics - power-ups - in the game.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
He stands in the corner of my vision, grinning at me. But err what are you doing with your hand there, Green Goblin
A tall plastic action figure that has green skin and purple vest, gloves and sleeping hat like thing. It's a muscled physique and it has a wide wicked smile and huge yellow eyes and large pointed ears. The figure stands in front of a window. It is the green goblin from Spider-Man.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Exactly."
A banana on a crate by a river.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There's a queue!
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
A million Days later... (And now the real mystery begins)
A doorway with the number 46 on. Then the word "finally!" Added on top. It's a screenshot from Blue Prince and this is the fables 46th door.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A quick post to say I'm writing The Alters review for Eurogamer but that it'll probably go up tomorrow because I'm taking a bit more time to play it
A male character in a black and red zip-up shellsuit hoodie sits slumped against a wall with a tired, scowling expression on their face.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just browsing some Baldur's Gate 3 concept art and, oh, yep, that's a, that's a sexy dinosaur
A raptor-like dinosaur reclining suggestively as if to say "paint me like one of your French girls"
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hello hello hello
An open box showing a selection of Nintendo Switch 2 goodies - including the console itself.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Don't worry, world, I will save you. This is a face you can trust in
A character creator screen showing a selection of faces and then the head and shoulders of a character on the right-hand side who has sallow grey skin, a black handlebar moustache, strands of black, thinning hair, yellow eyes and a strange upside crown tattoo on the forehead. They do not look kind.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Um why does this crochet potato have a cute bum www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
A photograph of four cute crochet potatoes, and two of them are turned around to reveal three dimensional buttocks. For some reason.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Here's me, proclaiming loudly and emotionally how much fun I've had working alongside you for 15 years, while you do some actual work. A typical scene. <3 forever, Tombo!
Two bespectacled humans stand in a kitchen. One interacts with their phone while the other holds a can of beer and... are they crying? They're crying or singing, it's hard to tell. Their eyes are closed, their head is back and their mouth is open. It's an emotional scene... for one of them.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Ticked a long-running goal of mine off at the weekend and ran my first TTRPG session 💪 Played Eat the Reich by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social, a blistering, rules-light action-packed adventure about liberating wartime Paris from Nazis in brutally over the top ways. One big thing the game does...
A photo of a slim tabletop RPG book and some associated artwork. It's Eat the Reich, a game about being a squad of vampire assassins who hunt Nazis. The artwork is evocative and colourful, and splattered with pinks and reds like graffiti spray.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The menus in this game! #metaphor
An illustrative menu showing two red veined arms ending in hands shaking.A young character with feminine features - dainty nose and mouth, big eyes, one blue, one yellow - and blue hair looks at the camera. A dazzlingly colourful main menu in metaphor re fantastic, showing a list of text options exploding from the horizontal head of our main character - a young boy with dainty features.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of... Hell? #doom
A huge statue of the Doom Slayer outside a building.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The frickin' doors on that game! Why have one huge Hell door when you can have three that open in sequential order?
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Swatting up on Doom Eternal and my god that's a pretty game!
A Doom Eternal screenshot. First-person view of Doom Guy's armoured hand grabbing the neck of a withered hold Hell Priest, who has grey skin and red eyes and manky teeth. They're in trouble.Doom Guy - the Slayer - turns to camera, wearing their iconic bulbous green armour. Doors galore. Three huge Hell doors open in Doom Eternal to reveal a tower-like building beaming a red light up above.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Periodic shout out to my Heatka heated mouse mat which has been a game changer for me and my chilly Raynaud's fingers! (Heatka.co.uk)
A desktop work station with lots of wires and a keyboard visible on a heated mouse mat.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Post somebody you’ve been told you look like, who you definitely don’t look like.
Willem Defoe, a head and shoulders portrait. The actor is clean shaven and fresh faced, and looks around 60 years old.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Just, um, popped out for a speculative audition the other day and landed myself a part in a gosh darn musical. Performance first week of April, in Brighton. It's Sondheim's Company and I'm playing David. Put on by the Brighton and Hove Operatic Society (BHOS). A musical! Did I say that already?
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I've worked out how to wind up D&D players (dice goblins specifically). May I present to you: Organised
Lots of D&D dice bundled recklessly into a dice tray, as if there's no love and only chaos in this person's heart
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
So bizarre the comments being out on Eurogamer. Makes me realise how important they are to the feel of the site. There's been an uptick in Discord activity - discord.gg/eurogamer - as a result though! Also on Discord, courtesy of @mrtom.uk...
Bertie's silly face superimposed on Dr Mario's silly face on the silly Game Boy box of Dr Silly Mario.
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Comic Con you were delicious! Bags are a bit heavier (two DM guides!) on the way home, and my legs are weaker. Lovely few days out after being holed up indoors for a bit ❤️
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Hello hello hello, what's this then? My demo station for the day. Several hours later, I've got lots of thoughts and gigabytes of video to share. Embargo not for a fair few days but keep those eyes peeled!
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Rocking the Eurogamer logo as I fly out to the US 🫡
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Just chillin', as one does
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Deep in rehearsals again for a play (Dangerous Liaisons). Only a small part - the valet Azolan - but endlessly fascinated by building backstories for characters and how alike it is to playing RPGs. I could do it all day, forever and ever. Oh also: swordfighting
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Does anyone else have a kind of zone-out fidgety habit? Mine is absolutely running the back of my fingers back and forwards across my beard, to feel the changing of the hair direction. I don't know why but I do this A LOT. I must collectively spend hours a day doing this 😳
A close up photo of Bertie by a window. He's running his hand along his beard, demonstrating his zone-out habit
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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
A little bit of EGX chicken-horsing around! In delightful company with @ianhigton.bsky.social, Tom and Wheels (who I don't think are on Bluesky?). Playing the fiendish Ultimate Chicken Horse 🐔🐎
Tom Phillip, Bertie, Ian Higton, and Wheels, sit on white sofas on an egx stage playing Ultimate Chicken Horse. It looks like Berties having fun, at least!Bertie, Ian Higton, Wheels, and Tom Phillips take a selfie backstage at EGX
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