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Lewis Gordon

@lewisgordon.bsky.social
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Culture on computers, mostly | ✍ The Verge, FT, The Ringer, The Nation, ArtReview, Eurogamer, The Guardian, Vulture | ✉️ lewisjohngordon~at~gmail~dot~com | he/him

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 5h
Yooo happy birthday!!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 11h
and they're screwing workers, and they're screwing the high street. fuck 'em all.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 11h
Thinking about this and also Deliveroo and Uber Eats makes me genuinely mad. Gouging customers under the guise of convenience and, in the case of those two companies, providing a clearly inferior service and quality of goods to what could be offered by in-house drivers.
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Design Room @designroom.site · 14/10/2026
We're a year-old today! To celebrate, we're making five changes to the site — and dropping the price of our most popular paid subscription tier.
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Design Room is turning 1 and we're lowering prices
To celebrate our first anniversary, we're making five changes to the site — and dropping the price of our most popular paid subscription tier.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
sick!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Penguin Colony (2026) www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterri...
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From the oddlyterrifying community on Reddit: Werner Herzog narrates as a deranged Penguin breaks away from its colony, and wanders unendingly into the frozen wasteland
Explore this post and more from the oddlyterrifying community
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🎉 HUGE CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 Today, I'm launching Vertical Slice, a new independent trade outlet committed to producing quality video game journalism that inspires, informs, and interrogates. That means daily news, incisive interviews, vital investigative work, and more. www.verticalslice.news
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
demo rocked. excited to play the full game
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The Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
after a sluggish start and rinky dink gunplay, hellraiser picks up a CONSIDERABLE amount of steam. after all, what good is pleasure without monumental pain. my review up on @kotaku.com kotaku.com/hellraiser-r...
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Hellraiser: Revival: The Kotaku Review
While Pinhead and the unholy Cenobites have some divine pleasures waiting for you in the Labyrinth, they won't come without considerable suffering
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rips
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Design Room @designroom.site · 05/10/2026
Big new story! The best 8,000 words you'll read on Vib-Ribbon today.
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Vib-Ribbon: An oral history
Almost 27 years later, we round up the team behind NanaOn-Sha's procedurally generated playground to look at the legacy of PlayStation's wireframe rabbit.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just played 30 baffling but absorbing mins of Radiosol. You play as a robot spider making its way through the most exquisitely abyssal city: visually noisy, lotta decay, a sun that burns even robots to death. Rain World heads would do well to check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/2934330/...
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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yep: some of us on the Flock team spent a bunch of time during lockdown playing games online in a group which included House House, so there's def some shared DNA
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love this peek behind the curtain, chock full of details for dorks who are into virtual grass, rock, and more. Also, now I think about it, there's a bunch of shared design spirit between Flock and Big Walk. Nice pairing IMO.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yo, thanks Jack!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thrilled this one is finally up: for the New York Times, I spoke to @molleindustria.org about his very funny, very revolutionary eco-socialist, open-world adventure, Future? No Thanks! 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...
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In This Utopian Video Game, It’s Always Sunny in Pittsburgh (Gift Article)
An academic’s miniature Grand Theft Auto goes beyond critiquing capitalism to show what might come after.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
excellent piece, Francisco!
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Francisco Dominguez @dominguezf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I chatted to a boss design consultant about a boss archetype staple that everyone recognises but never had a widely-agreed name.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oooh can't wait to hit this section
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The last of the recent run is Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot. I love her music and this debut novel feels like a natural extension of it. Funny, gross, metaphysical. Avant-garde ideas relayed with pop accessibility. It kind of reads like a mouldy, mycological Backrooms. Very good!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up was The Trees. Everett is such a lucid writer with the most enviable array of tools to make all of his many sage points pop on the page: pulpy genre fiction, counterfactual thought experiments, philosophy. Excellent, naturally.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After that it was Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True. I started out disliking this book (I think because I saw too much of my annoying younger self in Hsu's aloof teen snob). But the book pulls off a kind of magic trick in its latter half. Very powerful, very smart, very tender.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Back on this thread with Kushner's Mars Room. I felt an odd sense of dissonance reading this one: such pretty sentences for a prison subject matter that is so bleak. It reads less like a drama and more as a horror novel — time seems to become nightmarishly elastic, meaningless. Great, as per Kush.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gareth, go seem them live if you get opp. next level
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Skinny Survives bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/29/t...
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The Skinny Survives
The Skinny has its Mark Twain moment it seems, with a late reprieve. The contemporary visual arts organisation Outer Spaces will acquire shares in Radge Media CIC, the business behind The Skinny to…
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
he's like an anime character - pure physicality pushed to a cartoonishly perfect extreme
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 29/09/2026
loooooooooooooved this so much. if you're annoyed by modern racing games and their intrusive interfaces, loud music and incessant business, this is the opposite. just you and an open road. forever.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that ending eh!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
holy shit let's go!
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you read one thing about Halo this week I think it should be this
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Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tremendous work
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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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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026
Ladies and gentlethings, I present to you the first excerpt from @beckbook.com Many thanks to @nymag.com for putting it in print and to @vulture.com for presenting it so beautifully online Please read, if you are so inclined CW: Uh… intense emotional distress? I don't want to give anything away…
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Losing Beck
His acclaimed album, Sea Change, was inspired by a breakup. For his ex-partner, it was the story of how the Church of Scientology took over his life.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
eeesh
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really great piece IMO. Clayton Purdom and Eric Sams give us both a picture of Halo as defined by their friendship, and a picture of their long and evolving friendship as defined by Halo.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ahh can't wait to read
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
yo, thank you, Andrew!!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A few thoughts on the 2026 triptych of game-literate movies: Resident Evil, Backrooms, and Exit 8. It seems to me that a new cohort of filmmakers raised on video games has finally figured out what elements of the interactive medium work on the big screen. 🎁link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How gaming is changing the movies
Directors raised on video games have finally cracked how to translate them to the big screen — by focusing on their logic rather than their stories
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A great thread that gets into the cold logic of recent moves by Microsoft/Xbox
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andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
control resonant is a great game, and also one that exemplifies everything i love about remedy www.theverge.com/games/999268...
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Nobody does it like Remedy
The studio remains in control.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ty for reading my most gamer post ever
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Back playing Ghost Recon: Breakpoint again: hardest difficulty, HUD off, trekking from bivouac to bivouac, no story. It's got me positively salivating at the prospect of a new Ghost Recon using the updated Anvil engine with the brilliantly dynamic Atmos weather system. Could be next level.
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What about @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social? Could speak to the history/implications of Steam as platform i suspect
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lmao, imagining Stephens calling over his wife having just typed this out. "honey, you gotta hear the new lede!"
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cable is dead. Long live cable
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it really earns it!
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
great minds etc... (no, wait)
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
precisely. It was the prompt to flush the filter (IIRC) that completely flummoxed me. thank you for reading, Harrison!
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our review, from the inimitable @lewisgordon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...
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Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast
Tragedy, and an apocalyptic fog, befall a fishing community. It is up to outsider Simon to offer some kind of closure
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