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Another thing from the show: a group handed out thousands of paper cut-out "faerie fire" tokens, made from different colour paper, for people to put over camera torches to create a multicoloured effect at the beginning of the show. Looked really cool. Recording: www.instagram.com/p/DfAIU_ZCubx/

It was nice to do a bit of feature work again! This project is brilliant. Any retro lovers: this is for you

"But I think one of the biggest problems is something we don't discuss enough. Developers have surrendered an extraordinary amount of control over their work to companies whose interests aren't necessarily aligned with their own. So we're doing something about it."

Hello! Small bit of good games media news I wanted to share: Eurogamer editorial (non-guides) is up for consecutive months year on year, and on average since May, despite being down more than 40% full time staff (plus video, commerce, DF etc) for that period. I am very, very, very proud of the team.

“The light from the doorway of St Christina’s church cast long shadows.” An end-of-season ghost tour offers up a few surprises in my latest short story ‘GUIDED’… Start getting spooky at danlong.substack.com/p/guided

Love that this turned out well. Lot of love for Ghostrunner

Huh? BBC News has a story saying three sisters who drowned in Brighton "took own lives", suggesting suicide, no? But the story doesn't seem to back this up. The coroner is even quoted as saying "we don't why they took this course of action" (went into the sea) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excited for Gears of War for the first time in... god knows how long

Cautiously optimistic about Wizards of the Coast's D&D action game Warlock. Sounds playful. Sounds intriguing. Sounds like it knows what it is www.eurogamer.net/warlock-dung...

"The mood is certainly 'let's not celebrate the game until we're three months post launch, just in case', which is very unusual." Gears dev Coalition unsurprisingly fearful of layoffs as E-Day launches. Xbox remaining layoffs "hanging over our heads". Great report by @connormakar.bsky.social

Followed a hunch to ask Rebel Wolves about the balance between human form and vampire form in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and it turns out it's absolutely intentionally weighted in favour of being a vamp

Love this. CDPR could easily restrict this to the Complete Edition that it's selling for 25 quid at the moment. Other companies would

The Witcher 3 gets its phwoar back

It was originally much harder to beat the game, apparently. But all the talk and concern around the time system: it undermined the studio's confidence

Everyone's talking about the cuts to the studios and dev, which, yes, absolutely. But the behind the scenes cuts to areas like business planning, forecasting, demand planning... these aren't cuts a serious business makes, imo.

Nighthawks is doing... well! It came close to beating our "First Day Of Launch" record. This is a remarkable achievement when you consider that this is on TOP of the thousands of Kickstarter backers who already own the game. So I think we can safely put this in the "success" column for now! Phew!

A celebration of human art and physical things. Very timely.

Reminded this morning of the time I went to meet presumed cranky Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski who was promoting a new book at the time. He turned out not to be cranky at all, but full of laughter and cheekiness, despite what this photo suggests! www.eurogamer.net/meeting-andr...

The Blood of Dawnwalker getting a new difficulty option, combat changes and more in game's first "big" patch scheduled for early October www.eurogamer.net/blood-of-daw...

Transcription software interprets "Konrad" as "Comrade", which I suppose is quite close. I wonder what sort of profile it's building about me as a result

"We are also considering and researching some other crazy ideas which can make the RPG genre different to surprise people in the future." ❤️

🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

Wolverine's characterisation is a bright spot in this otherwise underwhelming, old-school romp that reminds us how far action games have come. Our Marvel's Wolverine review: www.eurogamer.net/marvels-wolv...

Was quite surprised to learn this game sold 2m copies. There's still the not insignificant hurdle of 1666: Amsterdam to clear before this, mind you

Like this little curio-chaser. Nice way to talk about Tim's work and life, and relationship to gaming, in a way that's different to everywhere else

If anyone wants to read something with the same premise (adult dark wizards fucked up the world) and the same props (magic, teens, chosen one, wizard school...) but written by someone with a heart and a brain, I can't recommend The Scholomance enough.

This essay by fighting game dev Patrick Miller starts as a response to drama (don't ask) but then drops truth after truth about escapism, coping mechanisms, and games as a painkiller. "If games serve a load-bearing function in someone's life, it's the life that needs fixing, not the games."

💚 Such brilliant news. I am so glad to see this. 🚀 Let's get Zack elected to become our 6th Green MP! 🚪https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-1st-big-day/

It's interesting seeing the continued pushback to the limited time idea the game has. I understand the concern but it really isn't as stressful or limiting as it seems. But some people don't even want to entertain the idea at all - it's like a hard block. It's a cool feature!

Oh Tim! Forever Frankie, forever fabulous 🖤

Ta-da - we're releasing the exclusive Dispatch vinyl soundtrack! We're also selling copies of the physical release from @pmstudios.bsky.social for Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox! ✨

Love this! Huge thank you to the various people I asked to take part in this, including @brandonetc.bsky.social, @annamegill.com, @chellaramanan.bsky.social, @danaenight.northsky.social

This is a brilliant Propah Eurogamer feature from Matt, visiting the incredible, player-built, utopian civilisation at the edge of No Man's Sky and talking to one of its founding members:

This was fun to write with @dompepin.bsky.social. These game music concerts have become some of my favourite events of the year

Haha no way! Brilliant!