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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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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you for reaching out. Sorry, it was a long day - we pulled that data from the release page which turns out to be all-time Twitch viewers! I've issues a correction - on site, it may take about 10 minutes to show. Having to take out a loan for just 450 concurrents is pretty damning

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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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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t even think it’s a good adaptation of Hellraiser. It connects with it in on a purely visual level, but narratively and thematically it is closer in execution to those awful sequels

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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think it is absolutely horrific in its quality, and far tamer in its execution than they've hyped it up as

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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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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There’s a slim chance you’ll love it! (I’ve been asking myself the same question)

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

Bold of Disney to believe they didn’t salt the earth with The Rise of Skywalker

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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

I forgot Morrowind... take out Resi 2 for Morrowind. I'm sorry, Todd. Forgive me.

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

Getting real Blade Runner 2049 opening vibes from this

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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 · 25/09/2026

Nightdive would be a far better choice than Aspyr

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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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Searching through Starfield with Kurt Kuhlmann - FRVR Podcast

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

The engine can support motion capture facial animations, so I don’t think that’s an engine issue. Starfield’s facial animations were more a result of a weird animation pipeline, not what the engine can render.

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

The Creation Engine is one of the most incredible RPG toolsets out there, and is made by amazing engineers. I hate this inane rhetoric that the engine is hell.

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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

I find myself more attracted to Hal Jordan each episode. It must be the hair

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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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Lewis White - FRVR @slingles.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is that first one the one with the big fish? The platforming there fucked me up big time

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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 · 12/09/2026

I’m 28 and the music is twice as loud as it should be. It’s atrocious. (And the pinball machines are always borked.)

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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 · 11/09/2026

The AYN Thor has the style points

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

Isn't that an A24 joint? Sony doesn't own DS at all

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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 · 09/09/2026

KCD2 Switch 2 trailer showed a game begging to die, and I like that. (It’s also nice that quite a few Switch 2 games have had awful performance in trailers and ran fine on release e.g. Star Wars Outlaws)

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

“We dump system resources like the good old days”

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

Unfortunately, the modern audience hates adaptation. They want the thing they like again, 1:1, which is a disgrace to the art form. Imagine if we had just 1:1 adaptations of Dracula for the past 130 years? The longevity of these stories is being hindered by their fans.

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

Ideally, it should be a big fat 0%, but that’s just me

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

Any game with gap-shimmying can’t be a 10/10

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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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