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Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig. I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
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Clockwork Orange, but it's me making everyone watch the TV shows I want to talk about more.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I remembered today when, 368 years ago, Gabe Newell told me about how Valve was nearly called Rhino Scar, and doodled the potential logo for me.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Oooh, I'm so ready to play Neverwinter Nights 2 again! kotaku.com/neverwinter-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Paypal UK's support number now has an AI to fight past. When trying to solve my issues, it gave the pound value of my account in dollars, and then asked if my account was "checking or savings." Yeah, no, those aren't things here. What a wonderful future we're building for ourselves.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Come on America. Now. Follow LA and start fighting back. You've got stormtrooper gangs arresting and disappearing people with impunity, free speech being dismantled, a despotic leader violating the constitution and threatening the courts. What more is needed? For fucks sake, riot.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

God, with everyone releasing their demos earlier and earlier, I really feel like Next Fest has become so commercialised.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Cyber Warrior by Dunke Games is a flawed but entertaining light hacking sim, and despite its issues, I've really enjoyed poking through everyone's files. buried-treasure.org/2025/06/cybe... Despite MY issues, please support Buried Treasure. It's just £2 a month! www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my, Wind Waker is looking fiiiiiiiine on the Switch 2 Gamecube-me-do:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Every time a game says "Press Start To Continue" and you press a button other than Start and it works anyway, you are TAKING DOWN THE MAN.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Right, @pcgamer.com's Fraser Brown beat me to writing about why a Thief VR game is such demoralising news, so instead I decided to look on the bright side and remember why I care so much about the series in the first place. kotaku.com/thief-vr-psv...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Alien Earth versus Metroid Prime. JUST SAYING.

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Highlight so far: you have to decapitate Mario to open the box.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Eeeeeeeeeeeee

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Today I've published the first free edition of The Peel Perspective, a solo newsletter dedicated to covering games outside the hype cycle. Think retrospectives on forgotten classics and inspired game mechanics - drawing on my years of writing for Edge and PC Gamer. www.patreon.com/posts/peel-p...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I've written about how the use of AI NPCs is such an ethically and creatively bankrupt move by developers. kotaku.com/fortnite-dar...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I've written about how the use of AI NPCs is such an ethically and creatively bankrupt move by developers. kotaku.com/fortnite-dar...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Only had three emails from Toby's primary school in the last two hours. Getting worried about them.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

I love that Mike Flanagan is working his way through Stephen King's catalogue, but so disappointed that he's putting off projects for a Carrie series. Brian De Palma's film is about as close to perfect as a movie can be. It can only be less. Normally it's a "whatever", the '76 movie still exists...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

British feminism needs reshaping’: Kate Nash on her new single about trans rights The British pop musician questions the gender-critical movement in her new song Germ, and argues that cis women need to stand up for the trans community 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Gosh I love Kate Nash so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

They're so predictable.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Reporting the big breaking news: kotaku.com/pokemon-cafe...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

For fucks sake, Poland.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I don't have an ADHD diagnosis, never tried, but thought I'd try to describe what reading a book is like for me. It's these things, simultaneously: 1) reading the words 2) being aware I'm reading words 3) understanding the words 4) thinking about how I'm doing the above ...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

When my boy was a baby, I was so quick to excitedly report when he achieved great feats, like sitting up, or taking a step. He's 10 now. The other day he told me the entire story of the Iliad, in intricate detail.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments