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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

HOT TAKE: the Star Wars franchise is better suited for video games than it is for films. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategy Is Working Out Much Better for Video Games

Video games like ‘Star Wars Zero Company’ have been both critically and commercially successful

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Nathan Ellingsworth - LOOKING FOR WORK @nathanellingsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry, there was an online pixel art Castlevania game that plays a bit like Kirby Air Riders' City Trial or The Duskbloods, with characters from every game? Why did I not know this existed? Can you play it today?! It looks so fun!! youtu.be/WEL7Ksp0FH8?...

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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Review

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Callum Self 🕹️📝 @callumself.com · 08/10/2026

In the UK App Store, the current #1 ‘Free Game’ is a Pokémon TCG pack opening app that gives users the chance to score some valuable Pokemon cards with cheap prices One expert says it’s “illegal gambling”. Read more below: www.kantopost.com/pokemon-tcg/...

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Pokémon TCG pack-opening app reaches #1 on the UK App Store, but an academic calls it "illegal gambling"

Crown Cards lets users pay up to £3,782 for random Pokémon cards that can be sold back to the company, and it has now become the UK's most popular free iPhone game.

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week's Disk Cleanup is with Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros, who told me about his lifelong love of Myst, playing Big Walk as his first proximity voice chat game, and going ALL IN on UFO 50. Read on! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Tonda Ros, creator of Blue Prince, has played UFO 50 for almost 700 hours: 'I think it's easily my favourite game of the last 20 years'

The designer of 2025's celebrated puzzler guides us through the games on his PC.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Influencers" really will receive a box of swag and IMMEDIATELY turn around and sell it for massive profit. Sometimes they even brag about it. It's the games press who are corrupt tho, remember

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Rollin Bishop @rollinbishop.com · 27/09/2026

just for context: doing this will get you fired as a games journalist

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Ed Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow! Okay, let's go. Yep. That makes sense. You what?

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Took me ages to decide on whether to pick Diablo 2 or Halo 2, but felt like it would be lame to have two Halos on the list...

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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The Six-Year Journey Behind ‘Big Walk,’ One of This Year’s Best Video Games

The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Legendary Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield developer Kurt Kuhlmann joined us recently for an episode of the FRVR Podcast. We discuss the brilliant in-world history of The Elder Scrolls, the struggles of Starfield, and the ongoing layoffs at Xbox. open.spotify.com/episode/6SPO...

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RetrogamerDaz @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just read a brilliant making of about Ico in our incoming issue of @retrogamermag.bsky.social Two bangers from Fumito Ueda in the same year, we're truly being spoiled.

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love the Halo series with all my heart. I’ve had the opportunity to meet and befriend a lot of people working on that franchise over the 11 years I’ve been in games journalism. Everyone there loved Halo. It is heart-wrenching not only to see them taken away from it, but to see people cheer it

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Halo Campaign Evolved Master Chief

ALT: Halo Campaign Evolved Master Chief

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disk Cleanup time! This week, Dragon Age co-director and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah told me all about playing Factorio with his son, why he increasingly prefers short games, and why he'll never be a pro streamer. Read on! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Mark Darrah, co-director of Dragon Age: Origins, has played Riven for 3 minutes and Factorio for 832 hours: 'If you want to know what kind of programmer someone would be, have them play Factorio'

The BioWare veteran guides us through the games on his PC.

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like 10 years ago, gamers were actually interested in how games were made and the insides of game design. Now, they just take any excuse to complain about anything. It's exhausting writing about an industry where its main consumers simply could not care about anything and can't be positive

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Steam Frame coming with a free copy of Half-Life Alyx is hilarious. If you’re into VR enough to buy that headset, you already own a copy of the best VR game ever made

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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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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I didn’t have the time to play the non-VR version of Moss, but it’s a damn shame this studio is gone. Moss was an exemplary game that showed VR didn’t have to be all first person demos. This team deserved better.

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 11/09/2026

What a colossal loss. I questioned the existence of the non VR version but it was clearly a desperation move to stay in business. Moss is one of the best uses of VR ever and they deserved so much more

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Metroid Ravenous is all I truly needed this generation. It looks DELICIOUS

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rewatched Star Trek IV in the cinema today. It was amazing to see this beautiful little comedy on the big screen. Despite the fact that many of these actors passed many years ago, it hit quite hard that this crew – the crew I grew up watching with my dad – is almost all gone.

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Star Trek Scotty: Hello, computer!

ALT: Star Trek Scotty: Hello, computer!

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Things might be hard in game media right now, but at least you can rely on several of your peers castigating you on BlueSky for anything you write that doesn't align exactly with their idea of what game coverage should be, sometimes after only reading a headline you probably weren't responsible for

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I went to get my cat, the owners of the kennel kept pushing us towards other cats because she was too violent. The first day I saw her, she attacked me and sliced my thumb open through a handling glove. Now she’s a sleepy little baby

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of listening to every version of Bizarre Love Triangle to determine the best one. There are major changes, minor tweaks, and completely different soundscapes. Few songs are tweaked so much by their creators. Anyways, it’s the 94 version: youtu.be/H9RrJElX09o?...

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New Order Bizzare Love Triangle '94

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Late to the party (more like a wake), but I’ve finally played Black Ops 7’s campaign. Truly shocking in its quality. Every bad faith take grifters have of how The Last Jedi ruins Star Wars is true in how this handles a bizarre legacy sequel to Black Ops and Black Ops 2. Horrific.

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't think there's anything more enthralling about this job than sitting down and talking to a dev about their work. It's incredibly rewarding to just spend two hours having a chat, especially when I've spent decades looking up to them. I do wish I was a more effective interviewer, though.

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Nathan Ellingsworth - LOOKING FOR WORK @nathanellingsworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is what they want with the increased console costs and removal of physical games btw They want you renting every game, paying by the hour, with only them deciding the costs. We have to push back.

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Ed Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, I forgot to share this yesterday: - Alex speaks to developers, publishers and execs about how we can fix...everything - Josh Wise revisits Wipeout Pure, and talks to the makers of 24: The Game, The Godfather and more about the process of adaptation - Alan Wen with the making of Stray Children

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spoke to Double Fine boss Tim Schafer about getting kicked out of Xbox and rediscovering the thrills of being independent. This week's column is a real good one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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How Double Fine Escaped the Xbox Bloodbath

Facing an existential threat, CEO Tim Schafer took his studio independent again after seven years of Xbox ownership

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Always fun when you're given a document full of shitty Google Gemini AI suggestions on how to improve your work after spending two months fighting a manual action knowing what the issue was but no one would act on it because AI didn't tell them to. Absolutely dogshit tech

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I didn’t finish Way of the Sword for review, but I’ve played a considerable amount. While I love the linear levels, Kyoto is a minefield of poor decisions, but you should push past it to experience some of the best linear action levels since the PS2 games. frvr.com/blog/feature...

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Onimusha, Kyoto, and Video Game Fluff - why you should push through Way of the Sword's hub world

Capcom’s Onimusha: Way of the Sword is possibly one of the most satisfying action games ever constructed. Every hit is perfectly weighted, every parry satisfies as swords grind like a high-speed train...

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My favourite part of any action movie is when our hero whips out a Trangia and spends 40 minutes making a nourishing soup.

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Ed Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I would just like to share these two paintings by my partner.

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Had a day off and spent half of it with the most sickening migraine that has unfortunately persisted into the work day

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dash. @dashiellwood.com · 19/08/2026

whenever anyone on here asks "why isn't there more coverage like X" the answer is, invariably, because nobody actually reads it

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just talked to the one and only Grant Kirkhope for the FRVR Podcast. Yes, he did the Donkey Kong sounds. Yes, I can die now.

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For the FRVR Podcast, I sat down with Sleeping Dogs designer Alastair Cornish. We discuss the creation of multiplayer modes for existing games, including Cornish's work on Arkham Origins, as well as the role of support studios in an increasingly expensive industry. open.spotify.com/episode/7rdd...

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Saving Sleeping Dogs with Alastair Cornish - FRVR Podcast

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Gamescom FOMO really kicks in when you start getting juicy updates like this.

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Hewso @hewso.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Psychonauts 2 is on sale on Steam for $13 so buy that shit, buy it now. The money goes to Double Fine and not Xbox, so jump in. I plan on doing the same for South of Midnight and any other games from Devs that tore away from Microsoft, and I previously enjoyed through review code or Game Pass

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Despite having 10 or so clear highlights, I thought that ONL was particularly bad. The lows were really low, and there was zero curation in there at all. Nice to see that written down somewhere: www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/opening-ni...

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Opening Night Live 2026: a disappointing night for fans - VGIM Daily, 26/08/2026

Also, Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3 stops by to join the Insider Track 😈

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Honestly, Keighley’s shows would be improved by a considerable margin with just one Nintendo game in the place of a free-to-play gacha game

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Ales@GSC @pcgi-ales.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

To commemorate the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope, everyone on the dev team received this package with a night light, a Non-Stop energy drink, an exclusive can of lager, and card with a message from our directors. As a lighting artist on DLC, I definitely support the message on the box! 😄

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lovely, uplifting stuff, this.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All-timer video game incoming.

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