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Kirk McKeand

@mckkirk.bsky.social
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Microplastics, they’re fantastic. Content Director @ GLHF. Consultancy, mock reviews. Did some writing for a video game called The Axis Unseen.

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Lewis @lewiswbt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(DMing a mutual) Hey man I'm imagining Dracula saying your latest post and it's freaking me out. Could you possibly delete it
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Never fucked up at work, lads? Every time I see you pop up on here it’s like watching fucking Mean Girls, the way you constantly look for excuses to shit on peers. Sad shit
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I thought it was fairly obvious from the other words in the post, but yes, it’s sarcasm.
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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
have to give @mckkirk.bsky.social a nod here:
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hellraiser game is pretty good, even if I didn’t like the guy it makes you play as. www.thebiglead.com/clive-barker...
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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival review – a fun romp that perfectly captures the source material
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is a dirty, grimy game. It makes you feel like you need to wash your hands in case you contracted something from all its meat hooks, chains, leather-clad gimps, and ...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Their loss, mate. You were doing good work they didn’t deserve. If you need any help with emails for editors with freelance pitches lemme know.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reminds me when I worked in a pub in Bolton, UK, and we didn’t have a key for the disabled toilet so we’d use a steak knife we dubbed “the Salford Key”.
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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hello! Would really appreciate some eyes on this to support our reporting <3 www.thegamer.com/inside-rocks...
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Inside Rockstar's Union Busting Trial
We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Theeeeeeee B
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gears of War: E-Day is just alright. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...
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Gears of War: E-Day review – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring
E-Day boasts the best combat in 20 years of Gears games – but everything surrounding it is disappointing
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As Xbox swings the axe, Gears of War: E-Day developers fear they'll be laid off straight after launch - and right before they'd be due their bonuses. "It's hard to believe anything they say anymore," Coalition devs tell Eurogamer. www.eurogamer.net/the-coalitio...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Been replaced by a bald
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PR people and devs, I’m covering on the IGN news team until the end of the year. You can get me on my personal email: kirkules.mck(at)gmail.com
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trevor Parlock
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b-blum.bsky.social @b-blum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered UNC to release the names of students disciplined for violating their sexual assault policy in 2020. His name is on that list. Coverage - dailytarheel.com/226351/unive... Case info - law.justia.com/cases/north-... List from IA - archive.org/details/dth-...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She’s not a real person
Asha Sharma acting weird as fuck, talking in the kind of quotes you see in soccer mum kitchens straight after a paragraph about job losses. She’s squeezing a stress ball while talking about winning and learning in the NYT profile.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay I’ve sold it now
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God, this. I’ve been shopping an interview with a huge name, tied to a viral subject that’s getting millions of views on social, and I can’t sell it anywhere. A couple of years ago it would have been the easiest pitch of my life.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ahhhh, ofc
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’d love to know the context here. I’ve been snuffling and there’s nothing anywhere.
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. 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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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Silent Hill: Townfall is one of the best games of the year. www.thebiglead.com/silent-hill-...
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Silent Hill: Townfall review – an instant horror classic
Silent Hill isn’t just a town anymore, it’s an idea that wriggles in your mind like writhing maggots on a mouldy steak, forcing you to reckon with the rotting meat of your past, wherever you are. In S...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Silent Hill: Townfall is one of the best games of the year. www.thebiglead.com/silent-hill-...
thebiglead.com
Silent Hill: Townfall review – an instant horror classic
Silent Hill isn’t just a town anymore, it’s an idea that wriggles in your mind like writhing maggots on a mouldy steak, forcing you to reckon with the rotting meat of your past, wherever you are. In S...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can’t believe I almost didn’t like a Breens gym photo
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Josh Mathews @vandalheart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Never thought I’d have to do something like this so I apologise in advance. Some of you might know my uncle went into cardiac arrest recently and was rushed to hospital - we have been told he will have lasting brain damage. We are heartbroken. Please take a second to read: gofund.me/20dfa1ce9
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Donate to Support for our Uncle after his Cardiac arrest., organized by Joshua Mathews
Our family has recently been faced with something we never expected. … Joshua Mathews needs your support for Support for our Uncle after his Cardiac arrest.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kirk got me talking about some of the bad experiences I had early on in games, which… yeah, I tend not to do that. Bloody game journalists.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I forgot to share this when it was posted, but the final interview for Firezide was with the lovely @mikebithell.bsky.social www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...
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Firezide Chat with Mike Bithell
Before indie success, the Thomas Was Alone creator faced workplace bullies.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here’s my Dawnwalker review. report.wand.com/reviews/the-...
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The Blood of Dawnwalker Review - The Wand Report
Former Witcher 3 developers drop the best RPG of the year.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve compiled so many goddamn shaders these past few weeks.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I love it when a plan comes together
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@sinnoware.bsky.social you got anything?
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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kirk and I chuckled about this anecdote in the From Software toilets… not realising Miyazaki-San was in the cubicle
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Respec @respec.net · 04/09/2026
Podcast time! This week: Sony's disappointing State of Play, reviewing Onimusha, Dawnwalker, & Orbitals, plus Kirk's game preview trip that involved a toilet chaperone: www.respec.net/podcast/189-sonys-di…
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A bunch of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actors are teaming up to make a found-footage horror movie. www.thebiglead.com/kcd-2s-hans-...
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KCD 2’s Hans Capon and Stalker 2’s Skiff actors to star in found-footage horror movie
Luke Dale and Alex Montyro – who play major characters in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Stalker 2, respectively – are set to star in a found footage horror movie about “a group of four estranged fri...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last month I went to Japan and spent an hour with FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, in an attempt to understand why he makes games the way he does. He also told me he doesn’t have a foot fetish. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...
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‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world
As FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feet
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s worth noting: I didn’t ask him about feet. This was unprompted. I was talking about the thematic relevance of hands and fingers, a recurring motif in his games, and he’s like “I don’t like feet, hahaha, don’t listen to the rumours.” Legend.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Miyazaki piece also includes some insight from this lovely man.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cheers, Chris!
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yeah, I just saw that. My original copy says 2009’s. Have flagged.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just looked at my original copy and the sub editors changed that. They must have looked it up and got confused with the remake.
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sent @mckkirk.bsky.social to Tokyo to interview Hidetaka Miyazaki. He asked the tough questions. (Read the whole thing, it's a banger) www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last month I went to Japan and spent an hour with FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, in an attempt to understand why he makes games the way he does. He also told me he doesn’t have a foot fetish. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...
theguardian.com
‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world
As FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feet
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We batter each other plenty anyway.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Name the haters
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Eat some 7/11 chicken and use the special button in the toilets
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You can tell a lot about GTA 6 by its roads. www.thebiglead.com/gta-6-fricti...
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Vice City’s roads tell you everything you need to know about GTA 6
In GTA 5’s Los Santos, the already wide roads of Los Angeles were stretched to accommodate a car zipping through traffic. You could split lanes like a motorbike, even if you were driving a bus. GTA 6’...
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s a much better game imo. Location, mission variety, physics, art, it’s more replayable. Masterpiece.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Maybe just move onto the sequel. I think it solves a lot of your issues with its level design.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bang the difficulty up and those projectiles they throw do force you to move.
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