well, cat’s out the bag now - the lovely people at @esportsinsider were kind enough to choose me as their 2023 Hall of Fame Rising Star (or as I have now christened it, the zoomer award) the fact i managed to get the trophy in my suitcase is honestly an absolute miracle 😅

we hit 1 MILLION crawlers in the first week of Vampire Crawlers launch 😭🎉 we can't fathom such a big numbie for our first Vampire Survivors spin-off, it means so much to us! truly, thank you to everyone who has picked up the game so far!

do I have any games press living in Brighton who follow me on here? reveal yourselves below - got a very cool opportunity i think you may be interested in 👀

A couple has gone viral for kissing before playing against each other on stage at a major Tekken 8 tournament They had both made it to Top 8 in the bracket

baby's first video game credits!! thank you to the lovely folks at poncle, both for the credit and for making a game that i have gotten hopelessly addicted to (if you haven't played vampire crawlers please correct that immediately)

‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ has crossed the $600M mark at the worldwide box office. It cost $190M to produce.

Major scientific breakthrough

shout out to media outlet Dot Esports for removing all but four of my published articles from the site for seemingly no reason!! I can't even begin to count the amount of time I poured into writing for the site, and for that to just all be gone is... super cool and fresh

IGN is hiring! We're looking for a US-based news editor working West Coast hours. They will report into me (hello, I'm the director of news at IGN!), and get to do all sorts of cool stuff about video games and entertainment. Lots more at the link! ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs?p…

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series theverge.com/report/901818/h…

what an utterly ghoulish state of affairs for games media support games journalism! support independent publications! BE DISCERNING ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE GETTING YOUR NEWS FROM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! aftermath.site/gameshub-clic…

The Green Party has won their first parliamentary by-election, and their first seat in the North of England. The party lead the Gorton and Denton votes with around 41%, while Reform UK came second with near 29%.

Park Chan-wook will serve as jury president at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. • Park will become the first South Korean president in the festival's 79-year history. Wong Kar-wai is the only other Asian filmmaker to have headed the jury. • He'll succeed French actor Juliette Binoche, whose jury handed out the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s Iranian drama “It Was Just an Accident.” • Park has a long history with Cannes, winning the Grand Prize for his feature debut #Oldboy in 2004 and returning to the competition with most of his films since. wp.me/pc8uak-1lGX2O

#RM of @bts_bighit is teaming up with @SFMOMA for a special exhibition, “RM x SFMoMA” 🎨✨ Co-curated with museum curators, the show will feature 200 works from RM’s personal collection alongside SFMoMA’s holdings — highlighting modern Korean art in dialogue with global contemporary pieces, including several never-before-seen works. On view exclusively in the US from Oct. 3, 2026 to Feb. 7, 2027. Save the date! #BTS #RM #SFMOMA #RMxSFMOMA #HYBEINSIGHT

Oh wait I think I've got it

🇮🇱🇨🇭 This Swiss commentator has balls of steel. While the Israeli bobsleigh team was racing, he kept reminding viewers of the war crimes the pilot has openly supported. Absolute legend!

oops all landfall also everyone start playing the insect boat from edge of eternities NEOW

Nobody believes me, but livestreaming used to mostly be about playing StarCraft at a very high level.

slack is a joyless place. but i love sending the salute emoji. makes it all the suffering worth it

translation: the horrors that the rest of you face dont affect me and im annoyed that yall expect me to care about people other than myself.

i genuinely have to stop and watch this video all the way through, multiple times bc he's so fucking genuine with this crashout