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World’s biggest game website covering the world’s biggest game and calling one of the most senior devs, Aaron Garbut, “Aarib Garvyt”

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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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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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely uncalled for

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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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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just do not get how a company of many hundreds spends a decade on the “WHAT on earth do we DO with this faceless ICON in SICK ARMOUR who SHOOTS COOL GUNS at aliens and DRIVES BIG TANKS and FLIES ALIEN SHIPS” problem

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ocarina? I hardly knew her.

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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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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If your take on Grand Theft Auto 6 is that a series about cars and guns is “still just driving and shooting” then I have no other option than to think you’re stupid.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rumour has it that he’s going to play The Witcher 3 for a seventh time.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A movie about Bourdain before Lloyd Grossman? Ainsley? The wrong people are making the decisions.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Duped by AI. Like a midweight chimpanzee.

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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s my turn now! The newsletter didn’t take off so I’ve been laid off. If you’re looking for someone with 15 years of experience as a writer and editor, please get in touch. I’ve also written dozens of mock reviews and my clients say they’re good.

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Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Big Walk does not sound like My Thing at all but this review is *such* a piece of writing, man. Feels like the old days where you'd happily read about a game you didn't care about because the work was so good. Exquisite www.eurogamer.net/big-walk-rev...

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With upcoming PS Plus game Big Walk, Untilted Goose Game developer House House's co-op puzzle quest takes the hangout game to a new peak - here's our review

The Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure. Our Big Walk review.

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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sorry for the self promo but I literally won’t have a job by the end of the year if enough people don’t subscribe. I think we’re doing good stuff!

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Scott Matla @callmescort.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“I asked ChatGPT, I asked Grok” Yeah well I asked a Halo 3 lobby and they all said you’re a dumb bitch

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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I had a chat with @harvey1966.bsky.social about growing up poor, dealing with the deaths of his parents, and how those things shaped his outlook on work and life. www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...

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Firezide Chat with Harvey Smith

A chat about deaths of his parents, growing up in poverty, and how those things shaped his outlook on life.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

GQ profiles take a lot of work and planning and coordination and Sam is genuinely up there as one of the best PRs I’ve ever worked with. Totally gets both sides of the game, preempts issues, and delivers accordingly. Basically, you should hire him.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Not enough dogs in airports. Sort it out.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/07/2026

based on the trailer alone I don't think Chris Nolan even played Mario Odyssey

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Can’t help but wonder if games will push to a film industry model where the majority of people are project based freelancers.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well there goes that dream

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sad to hear about Glen Schofield, although not surprised. When I met him he a warmth and soul greater than many of the developers I’ve met - but he also seemed worn down and ready to disappear into his paintings. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/arti...

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How The Callisto Protocol reinvents sci-fi horror

The Callisto Protocol is gaming's most-anticipated new title of 2022. GQ spoke to creator Glen Schofield and his Striking Distance team about Bond, ultraviolence and surpassing the sci-fi horror legac...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A man must stand for something

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

sadly real history has very few Norway-Brazil clashes but kids I'm here to tell you about a little game called Civ VI

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A damning indictment of games writing nowadays is that among all the stuff going on - which might in more talented hands convert to good writing, investigations, interviews with People Who Actually Know - big sites like Poly, PC gamer and others float instead on thin op-ed bait.

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Someone asked CoPilot to roast the gaming chat at my FTSE30 finance job and it called a guy who’s obsessed with physical media “Captain Blu-ray” and it made me laugh so hard that I think AI is good now.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.

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Mel Stefaniuk @melstefaniuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"The London ambulance service said it had recorded the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in a single day in its history, driven by the extreme heat." So... can we, I don't know, start doing something about global warming now? Like, as a society? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Sam W @samwrite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026