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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Big Walk is just 'what if we gave Destiny-style raid puzzle mechanics proximity chat' and I'm here for it.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Personally I will just continue to prove that I don't use AI by simply not creating dogshit thoughtless text conveying zero information in the guise of syntactically valid English—do you really think anyone is gonna look at that em dash here and think "oh yeah man, a computer CAN be that bitchy"

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

One of gaming's most baffling phenomenons is the Scrandle community's bias against pies. The fuck is wrong with everyone who voted for this?

A styrofoam cup with two sausages and some mash wins in a head-to-head against a pretty nice steak pie with seasoning and gravy.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Says something about the last year of the game that my response to this is less sadness and more relief that it's not being made to shamble along any further.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Reviewed the new Forza. TL;DR - It's good - Japan was a great choice - I hate every single character in this thing - I am unreasonably annoyed by the bit with the mech www.pcgamer.com/games/racing...

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Forza Horizon 6 review

Riding a well-worn track.

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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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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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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Finally got around to watching Oppenheimer, and while it was generally good, the bit where he happens to translate /that/ quote from the Bhagavad Gita mid-sex scene is maybe the most cringe bit of filmmaking I've seen this decade.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's my last day of work this year, which means everyone who has added a meeting to my diary for this afternoon is being added to a list.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Not entirely sure what this console is for any more.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Didn't quite manage to argue my way into getting Blue Prince the main GOTY award, but this is a good list regardless.

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TiredTiefling @tiredtiefling.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Promise Mascot Agency (2025)

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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast @backpagepod.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

New episode! The podcast eats itself. An episode of The Back Page, all about the back pages of games magazines. Our guest is @octaeder.bsky.social! Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...

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The Back Page Episode + ARC Raiders (with Phil Savage)

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Me, only remembering that this accursed website exists because someone linked to a dogshit take.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This wasn't a particularly fun review to write, but I'm really not gelling with Destiny 2's new systems. So much of the game right now feels worse than it did two weeks ago. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...

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Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review

It's a brand new Destiny 2. Can I have the old one back?

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

WWE ain't got nothing on the style and grace of the Japanese pros.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...

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Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub

From screenshot to cake, Tub Geralt became a defining icon of The Witcher 3.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This really rings hollow when "lawless space cowboy shit" is already a rich vein of Destiny storytelling, but also one severely lacking in the current version of the game. This just reads as Bungie jettisoning the 'vibe' already built in favour of the version of it that lets them have lightsabers.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Based on what I've played so far, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feels like a real modern Oblivion successor. Only instead of helping Sheogorath unleash a storm of burning dogs, you're tracking the village idiot to his sauerkraut den because he's stolen half the cabbages.

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 18/11/2024

If you’d like to follow the PC Gamer team on Bluesky, here’s a starter pack with everyone On Here so far.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I will say this for The Game Awards: it's an audacious excercise in branding. The discourse every year suggests that people genuinely believe it's /the/ de facto official industry award show, but like, they just called it that. It's a trick. A spell that only works if you believe.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024