iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Time, once again, for my favourite concatenation

A screenshot from Gmail, showing an email from Games industry.biz about the Steam Machine, with a sub header saying "This is going to be a niche device" - Anal...

030

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 29/04/2026

Never thought the day would come that I'd have a Xenosaga game in my Steam library - let alone that it'd be Pied Piper!

180

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 08/04/2026

This story of how Yoko Taro designed the world map for the original Drakengard makes me feel SO SEEN. As does the section header, "No Interest in Worldbuilding". (From the lovely new book The Wor[l]ds of Yoko Taro)

There were other mid-project orders too. I remember being told to name the towns and make a map. Up until then, I'd been using real names like France and Germany for the countries in the game. Then they told me to come up with original names. Their reasoning was something about unique worldbuilding and original place names being part of Enix's identity as an RPG maker.But that didn't really click with me.

In the end, I fudged it by giving things random names like the Silent Forest or the Temple on the Ocean. For the map, I literally took a real map of Europe, flipped it upside down, and handed that in!

160

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 02/04/2026

I swear to the highest of highs, Vodafone: I will find every person who enabled and developed this shitheap of a chatbot, and I will erase them. Not kill them, no -- I will so comprehensively destroy them that there will be no trace of them ever having existed, even in their dearests' memories.

A conversation with Vodafone's completely useless chatbot, TOBi, in which it says it's sorry it hasn't been able to help me, asks if I'd like to speak to an agent, and then when I say yes -- PICKED FROM A LIST OF YES OR NO, NOT EVEN TYPED -- it says it can't understand, because it's a piece of shit that deserves to be slung into the cold, dark, merciless void of space.

190

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 09/01/2026

Wrote two low-quality jokes for the bio, so I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off. That's how this self-employment thing works, right? (Please do follow @emanationgames.bsky.social, there's lots to, er, come.)

4243

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 09/01/2026

My new 'studio' is called Emanation Games. Why? An emanation, in esoteric theology, is an overflowing of pure divine power; an outpouring of creation. But also, because it also sounds like it could be about cum. That's the duality I want to represent. Intellectual and puerile. Temporary logo:

1511415

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 23/12/2025

Anybody want a profoundly meaningless paperweight?

A grotesquely large and heavy "shield" that marks the ten year work anniversary of one Ed Fear, who apparently made some truly "Unreal Games," despite having only worked there for a year.

090

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 19/08/2025

I might be living off my savings at the moment, but I'm not going to pass up new merchandise for the GOAT FF

060

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 10/08/2025

Yeah, I saw Weapons.

020

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/07/2025

Happy 25th anniversary to Final Fantasy IX, aka the best Final Fantasy. Cute, poignant, funny - the last to truly have it all. Quina Quen will always be my idol.

190

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 17/05/2025

Enjoying Eurovision this year from the outskirts of Amsterdam. Happy gay Christmas, one and all.

040

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 23/04/2025

May your timeline be blessed by Bebe.

Bebe, my mum's cavapoo, looks at the camera from her dog bed. She's covered in a pink blanket; only her head is visible. She's a total babe.

080

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 15/04/2025

What's brilliant about this is that, to many Europeans, this is a devastating insult. Vance really playing 4D chess here.

181

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 27/03/2025

With hot takes like these, you could never ever accuse Adrian Chiles of being a nepo husband.

020

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/03/2025

Happy Mayhem day, little monsters! As always, it's not what I was expecting - and that's the joy of a new Gaga album.

020

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 03/03/2025

The load-bearing "um" is just perfection

010

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 20/02/2025

I'm nearly 40 years old, and I don't care what you think about how I spend my time

010

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 20/02/2025

I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM OKAY

120

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 20/02/2025

your motivational quote of the day: get out of your metapod and fly like a butterfree, bitch

the "is this a butterfly?" meme but instead it says "is this self confidence?". Look, it's not my finest work, but what do you want from me?

030

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/02/2025

Because I am a colossal homosexual, here are some of my recent Infinity Nikki looks

340

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 30/01/2025

Feeling sad about state of industry and also missing the mark on some work, so taken the afternoon off to play Infinity Nikki. What a balm this game is 💖 (I call this look 'Elle Woods on her first day in court')

050

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 12/01/2025

Challenged myself to get eight-directional sprites switching based on camera angle, using PaperZD animation blueprints. We did it, Joe!

6707

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/01/2025

Cancel culture isn't working, we need to go harder

150

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 01/12/2024

The last thing anyone needs in the world right now is yet another TV recommendation, but I've finally watched ALMA'S NOT NORMAL (iPlayer) and it's absolutely fantastic. Sophie Willan deserves to be The Next Big Thing.

260

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 19/11/2024

poor Xenoblade Chronicles 3, getting savaged like that

000

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 18/11/2024

Anyway I'm watching 30 Rock for like the 8th or 9th time, and I have no idea how this show still manages to make me laugh out loud. Today's line: "See Liz, your new vibe is a double-edged sword -- much like the kind Mickey Rourke tried to kill me with."

020

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 13/11/2024

I've been doing a stand-up comedy course for the last few months, and last night was the public showcase. 😅 I don't know if I'll ever do that again, but I learned so much about comedy writing, and my confidence grew massively. Can't recommend it highly enough for those who want to push themselves!

1140

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 05/11/2024

Exchanges like this actually make me sad that I've left the other place.

280

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 27/10/2024

proof of low culture: I once admitted to everyone at AdventureX my true objective

A picture of a slide featuring a picture of Queen Jackie Collins, and the words "Mission Statement: To Become the Jackie Collins of video games"

070

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 26/10/2024

Rivals is so good - I do LOVE a campy dramatic bonkbuster, and they've captured the tone perfectly. I don't know if I'm weird for thinking Danny Dyer looks hotter with his terrible wig than he does normally, but... actually, I'm fine with being weird.

030

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 28/09/2023

Stuck to my monitor: wise words to live by, from @doriandotexe.bsky.social

0206

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 27/09/2023

Honestly, Google? I don't know what I meant.

030

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 26/09/2023

Suppose I should introduce myself to a new platform with my Top 25 games (it changes every few minutes)

Xenogears, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, Silent Hill 2, Space Channel 5, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shadow Hearts, Xenosaga Episode I, Xenosaga Episode III, Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Hatoful Boyfriend, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy XIV, FInal Fantasy XV, SingStar, Nier, Nier Automata, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Super Mario Odyssey, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!

0120