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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is your reminder that @joshuawolens.bsky.social is one of the most naturally funny people I know

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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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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sites just have to hire more non-men. It’s unforgivable how few women and nonbinary people are staff writers and editors at major sites, across the board. not just in games but games in particular has a serious problem.

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"In the week I've spent revisiting Star Wars Galaxies, I've seen very little other excitement. I've killed no impressive enemies. I've done barely any quests. It's an MMO that's content to let me log in and do little of note whatsoever—and that's exactly what I've been missing."

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I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

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Does anyone know how to drive this thing?

It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

also: I don't think WoW is safe, either. Probably not today, not tomorrow - but give it five years and I am absolutely certain some rotating CEO in the revolving door of Xbox might make further cuts to Blizzard that ruin the whole thing, if they haven't already

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

you'll hear about it in my weekend column, but i'm still legitimately fuming about how Zenimax Online Studios has been treated by Microsoft/Xbox writ large these past couple of years, particularly as a lover of the MMO genre

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/07/2026

is it good that every single games studio i still own is having all its staff leak comments like "we cant possibly make games under these conditions" in ten thousand articles

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I cannot emphasise how little saying you want 1 billion daily players makes sense. Absolute peak corporate waffle. The most empty, most meaningless figure you could spit out to try and justify the latest round of reaping. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional

Alternate title: Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There's legitimately nothing that'll disenchant you of the notion that mega-tech CEOs know what they're doing faster than becoming a journalist writing about these bozos. It's kayfabe all the way up, sacrifices at the altar of growth. And deep injustice that people's hard work has to suffer for it

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ME, MR. XBOX: okay. it demanded a terrible financial and institutional cost, but i've successfully bought out all the people who make videogames OBSEQUIOUS UNDERLING: excellent. what's the plan ME: huh UNDERLING: the plan for the videogames ME: ????

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Didn’t consider myself an MMO player for the first few decades of my life but, adjacently through other genres, I find myself becoming one. So I find interviews like this one increasingly fascinating reading. www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/ul...

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Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'

"The MMO audience feels underserved and overmonetized, that's how they feel about what's going on."

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yeah, no. It's neither seductive nor valuable. I can put sentences together because I've been doing so my entire life.

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Gian-Carlo @unlimitedrulebook.com · 20/05/2026

that Google search overhaul feels like this

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New yap blog on Patreon (patreon.com/killsixbilli...) about punching a dragon but I want to highlight this section in particular.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 20/05/2026

uhhhhh I can think of another reason why people would be having to do more search queries than they used to

Google blog post: " As people have realized just how much more Search can do for them, they’re searching more than ever before — so much so that last quarter, we saw queries reach an all-time high."

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emma k park @emmakpark.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

whenever someone's like 'i have a fulltime job and i play an instrument and i exercise regularly and have endless energy to attend social events' mate what cheat code are you using??? no rly which issue of Nintendo magazine was it in. i'm serious just tell me i wont tell anyone

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

the teen experience Mixtape imagines isn't a universal one. for example, there's nobody in the game who spends 600 hours in Alterac Valley

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I liked Mixtape a whole lot - but when it comes to its existence as a videogame, it felt out of step with its otherwise gorgeous direction. www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

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Mixtape review

Perfect playlist, but just a decent videogame.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just a heads up: I don't have an X account. @HJRwithpen on X isn't me and is, in fact, some weirdo impersonating me. If you could report 'em that'd be appreciated. x.com/HJRwithpen

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Andy Chalk @andychalk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Vulture scumbags may have reduced it to rubble but The Escapist is where I got my start and met some of the best people I've ever known online. I'll always be grateful for that.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I wish nothing but the most consequences of actions to everyone involved in this decision. The Escapist was obviously on the ropes for a while given the walkout, but yikes. This isn't gonna go well.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

also absolutely no hate to this person, the tweet's really funny, but: supremely, incredibly bold of you to assume I already haven't.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Deadlock has an ocean-deep skill ceiling and incredible complexity, true. But it's also an infinitesimal slice of a much more interesting world I wish we could see more of." www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/i...

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I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead

An RPG, an MMO, an FPS—I'll take anything, man.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I feel like we need to be asking the question: "God, doesn't this suck?" about these desperate attempts to make AI-gen goddamn -anything- more often. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

sorry is there games journalism discourse happening, I was busy clumsily photoshopping a sword into the pope's hand on company time for a @joshuawolens.bsky.social story

a PC Gamer story about the pope criticizing AI; in the hero image, he's been photoshopped to be holding a cool sword

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Unfortunately, long headlines are excellent opportunities to make Bits, something that is directly correlated to how sexy I am.

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John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 27/01/2026

my man

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I don't want a Metacritic-style rating, if you're going to make fun of me I expect a fully-statted out attributes wheel. Y'know, the ones where the different stats create a polygon.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Every time someone makes fun of PCG's headline length, I put in a support ticket to get the maximum size bumped up another 50 characters.

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

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Tom Schalk - Voice Actor Guy @tomschalk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This whole time, that meme was actually from Jak & Daxter

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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/01/2026

the most concerning thing about them justifying murdering an obviously completely innocent murder by ICE is if they can justify and defend this, there’s nothing that’s too far for them. anything you can imagine them doing is very likely something they’ll stand behind

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

no more. please, god. i am so tired and so angry

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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Kaizen Game Works @kaizengameworks.com · 17/12/2025

An image from the game Promise Mascot Agency. A yakuza character called Tokihira is being shot and the main yakuza character Michi is screaming as it happens.

PC Gamer Cozy Game of the Year 2025.

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

also as others have rightly pointed out: hey. if it doesn't matter then you should be able to replace it with a pink and black cube or gibberish. if you can't replace it with a pink and black cube or gibberish, it matters enough that someone should actually be making it

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

i think the amount larian's using and where does matter, but i also think it's deeply fucking stupid to be using AI for placeholder text yes, i am going to use the "pisses everyone off" machine to do something that inherently doesn't matter and makes the placeholders harder to find and replace

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Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

one of my favourite parts about my job is that I can admit that I need Robert Robertson III from Dispatch carnally, and my editors will take a look at it and go "yep! that's going in". no questions asked also it's the truth have you seen that man

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 16/12/2025

These are our favourite PC games of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam... #pcgamer #pcgaming #goty

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PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025

Our favourite PC games of the year.

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Zalmon🌹ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities

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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Different line of work, but while we’re on the subject: Not a single word of anything I’ve written at PC Gamer or elsewhere was drafted, edited, outlined, or in any way generated by AI. And not a single word will be, because it’s antithetical to the thriving of the human spirit.

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