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Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

The Splatoon kids still keeping it real

Good water level music in a video game should make you feel as if you have returned to the womb.

I see reviews are up for The Alters; I've been playing it all week and it's the most memorable science-fiction game since Returnal.. You're trapped on a space base with a bunch of squabbling clones of yourself from alternate realities. Your only escape from them is a super-hostile planet to explore

Honestly jealous of Christian Donlan's line about MindsEye: "Clever people have spent a good chunk of their working lives making this game. I don’t think they intended to cast me as what is in essence a Deliveroo bullet courier for an off-brand Elon Musk" www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...

Given the news about the lovely DLC coming next week for Still Wakes the Deep, here's a reminder that I literally wrote the book about this game - and it's due out on 31 July. It's much more than an art book - there's loads of interviews in there, including one with Alec Newman. It's COMPREHENSIVE.

It's Pride month, so they legally have to let me put my gay nonsense in the paper

This guy with the baseball bat in the "Make FPS Great Again" cap is ruining my night

This has significant implications for Mario lore

I'm excited to announce the NES-ential Celebration, a beautifully-designed hardcover book celebrating Nintendo's first console. As its editor, I've commissioned a supergroup of phenomenal writers, alongside unique essays from beloved game developers & creators www.kickstarter.com/projects/338...

honestly thrilling to see and hear an adult reaction to something going wrong in a video game instead of melodramatic streamer screaming

something collectively broke within all of us online that day. never was it fixed and it only made us worse.

Imagine outsourcing all your thinking to a guy who still only has two Pokémon badges after 80 hours of gameplay.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

A little sentimentality is forgivable at the end of an era, so here's me saying farewell to the Nintendo Switch, the console that accompanied me through some of the toughest and most rewarding years of my life when I was a new parent www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

My children have inexplicably gotten really, really into Alvin and the Chipmunks. Abominable upbeat squeaking is emanating from two separate rooms of my house. Please send help

my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name me:

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

It can feel like facing a wall of pessimism when reading and thinking about the future of games, so I’m deeply thankful for Despelote and Many Nights a Whisper reminding me of the human heart of the medium that will never go away. You can’t stop people telling stories with the forms they love.

If there were no NDAs all around I could tell you about twenty projects in the last five years alone that followed these exact steps except for "and it all came together beautifully". If anything can be learned here, it's not that they found a writer on a writing site and a musician on a music site.

Trying to persuade my partner to play Clair Obscur with me. Him: what kind of game is it? Me: ...French audacity

Just devastated by the news about Polygon and Giant Bomb. It feels like both my industries, games and media, are collapsing in front of us, and for no good reason - just sheer greed. Corporate ghouls and big tech intent on replacing valuable creative and journalistic work with chum that nobody wants

Difficult to forget how Facebook and Google between them have strangled my whole industry to within an inch of its life over the last 15 years, tbh