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he/him/his 👋 Average runner. Awkward footballer. Published author. Annoying singer and guitar player. Oh, and Social/Community Lead at Secret Mode 🎮 Prev. Codemasters/EA/Frontier/Sumo. 🤹‍♂️
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It’s liiiiiive. And maybe… it’s alive? 👀 Dead proud of the whole Secret Mode team for how we’ve shouted about the latest chapter for the award-winning Still Wakes the Deep. They’ve seriously smashed it 🌊

If you’re not following Aftermath for games industry commentary, you need to. ‘Grats and thank you to @nathangrayson.bsky.social for poignantly summarising how numb last week’s trailer-fest felt, its remarkable LA backdrop, and the confusion many of us feel on how to connect, or disconnect, from it

After all, why shouldn’t I get the ROG Xbox Ally? It’s for ‘work research’… right?

Wild how many sports outlets I’ve seen spend months label the Club World Cup as a pointless, ill-advised tournament, who are all now, err, covering the Club World Cup in great detail? Bandwagoning for months to score Moral Compass Points, before just caving in to secure some summer Content™️

We need to dive deeper 🌊 A superb game gets a new chilling chapter, launching next week, in Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest! Great job by the whole crew on today’s reveal 💙

Booted up two recent PS2 game purchases tonight. Neither work. Please respect my privacy at this difficult time

Finally ready to talk about the project 📢📢 Excited to share the launch of @seagamesforgood.bsky.social - a community-powered initiative to do GOOD, and as its first project - Play for Peace: Games for Palestine Charity in partnership with @unrwausa.bsky.social. More below⬇️ itch.io/jam/games-fo...

No advice or knowledge I share with my team will ever be met with the awe and joy than this week, when showing them what the emoji board shortcut is for any site (It’s Windows key and full stop, btw)

Did they now? ✨🙈🙉🙊✨

‘Mum said it’s my turn in the garden’

Officially announcing my new game: GARBAGE COUNTRY. A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world. feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.

Summer Game Fest’s weekend of 🔥WORLD PREMIERES🔥 is coming to an end. If your game was shown: 1) Congrats! Go hydrate! 2) Make sure you’re added to this List of video game, Dev and Publisher accounts on Bluesky! An easy way to help with discovery on here 🚀 #gamedev bsky.app/profile/did:...

Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

FALLOUT SIGHTING IN XBOX SHOWCASE, PAGING @daggersmctimbers.bsky.social 🚨

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

EXCITING NEWS 🤩 As you may or may not have seen in the Women-Led Games showcase at SGF, KreatureKind is coming to Xbox S|X and PS5 on June 27th! 🎮✨ youtu.be/oQfFPaxDFtM #sgf #gamedev #indiegames #xbox #playstation #consolegaming

Listened to the feed on here and checked out Sword of the Sea Holy shit. 😮‍💨

The big takeaway from Summer Game Fest absolutely is that Bluesky can comfortably house all the fun silly industry commentary Major box ticked for the lil butterfly app

Caught up on Wholesome Direct Faith in industry restored Faves: Big Hope, Tales of the Shire, Collector’s Cove, Clawsome, Luma Island, Winter Burrow So many clever lovely games, made and marketed by clever lovely folk 🤌

Much better hat energy in day of the devs

Hello! Pls consider doing something incredible today ⤵️ www.justgiving.com/page/christ-... @specialeffect.org.uk #charity

Watching games showcases when you work in the games industry be like this

Summer Game Fest is losing my attention a lil now so instead let’s all play the demo for this lovely game launching soooooon (I’m not connected to it at all; it’s just neat)

KENNY OMEGA SIGHTING @pikapies.bsky.social

“lol why are vegans called out as a gang that’s so— OH SHIT IT’S SCOTT PILGRIM 💕💕💕” #SummerGameFest

Out Of Words looks absolutely wonderful and charming. Sign me up for all of that pls 🙏

Stampede: Racing Royale walked so Sonic Racing Crossworlds could run😮‍💨 (I’m absolutely playing the hell outta that btw)

“Mortal Shell II looks sick!!” Me: Why is the trailer soundtrack named after former Chelsea wonderkid Ben Sahar? #SummerGameFest

Watching the IGN livestream for Summer Game Fest and vividly remembering how the free Mountain Dew at that venue last year tasted like the Squishee that Millhouse and Bart make when they go insane Just pure liquid syrup

Excited to announce that I am also enjoying playing my second generation console 😌

I’ve been meaning to go bouldering but fear I will ruin my hands whilst absolutely sucking at it, so thank you Cairn for giving me a more fun way to scratch that itch 🧗 #StateOfPlay

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

The office pin board is up! Currently taking donations - aim is to have it totally full by the end of the year 😅

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Have nothing at all against Norris (obviously, I don’t know him) but the ‘Mario Kart’ line here is getting an awful lot of love for what is, very clearly, a 4/10 joke It’s giving “yeah that sounds like fun… on OPPOSITE DAY 😂😂😅😂😂😅😂” #F1

First attempt at a BBQ in the garden 🌭

Full marks, 10/10, no notes for the Catto's Post Office team. A masterclass in Steam blog writing 👏🐱

So is Cyberpunk 2 a prequel to Cyberpunk 2077, set 2075 years earlier????

“All of this talk from the younger generation about ADHD and Autism is just attention seeking. This didn’t exist in my day” - Local boomer who’s spent their life collecting different spoons, listening to the same five comfort songs, and feeling overwhelmed at social events

Having a real hard time tryna think of a TV show that’s lived rent-free in my head, when I’m NOT watching it, more than Andor Season 2 Couple of eps to go. Just sublime so far Relevant. Stylish. Poignant

I really don’t get the Letterboxd thing or understand why people make an account just to share movie reviews But then I remember I have Strava, and write pointless details that nobody cares about for every single run. Everyone has their kinks. I can’t judge. You do you 🤌

A rough af bit of Backslide by Twenty One Pilots. Way out of key at times but tryna get myself back into playing more!

Way off my best pace at #parkrun Leamington this morning - the end result of a hectic week and a bad night’s sleep But we got it done. And always worth it to see these legends 🐾

Pine Hearts from @hyperluminalgames.com is a beautiful and heartfelt game - super pleased to say it's now published by Secret Mode! If you like cosy adventures that make you smile, but also tugs on the heartstrings, Pine Hearts is for you. It's a genuine treat 🏕️

Thank you Outlook for starting my week by making every one of my emails look like this, with no way of stopping it 💅 If anyone knows of a way of fixing this, pls save me