Aaron Potter

Aaron Potter

@aaronpotter.bsky.social

Writes + talks about games for @mirror.co.uk | Former freelance writer at EDGE, NME, WIRED and more | Indie game book author | ✉️: aaron.potter@reachplc.com

600 Followers 65 Following 1,637 Posts Joined Jul 2023
7 hours ago

A Little Nightmares VR game was not on my Bingo card for 2026, but I'll take it.

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BETTER than Left 4 Dead!? - John Carpenter's Toxic Commando Review YouTube video by All Out Gaming

Video version:

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John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando review – zombie shooter is my type of brainless Saber Interactive follows up Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 with another horde-based shooter that keeps things simple but undeniably fun.

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is big dumb zombie fun in the best way. Won't change the world, but it scratches an old-school itch I've had for ages.

Here's my review:

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Not every day you walk past a British podcasting institution

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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2 days ago

Where is the lie

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2 days ago

I would, but I'm sure 90% of people I'd debate with would try to justify Chocolate Digestive going at the top. A madness.

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I don't care what anyone says, Fruit Shortcakes are an elite biscuit!

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2 days ago

Put some respect on my girl Helena Harper too, while we're at it. ✊

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3 days ago

I’ve been largely offline recently but I’m breaking that pattern to let you know that Mythmatch, a game I was *so* lucky to work on, comes out on Friday!

It would mean to world to me if you could check it out and tell your friends about it!!

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3 days ago

It's 2026. The sentence "Donald Glover is the voice of Yoshi" is somehow a true statement.

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I think Village will always have my heart, but 7 is a neat franchise reset for sure.

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Resident Evil 7. Still a banger.

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Cuphead MEETS Bioshock!? - Mouse: P.I. For Hire Hands-On Preview YouTube video by All Out Gaming

Boom! New video version:

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3 days ago

Not played nearly enough Monster Hunter Stories 3 to review it yet. But it's good to see a series I've adored for so long grow up without losing its charm.

Pokémon? Pfffft. *This* is what a wholesome turn-based JRPG should look and play like in 2026.

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3 days ago

Appreciated. 🙏

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3 days ago

All I'm saying is catching the 7am train on a Monday morning seemed like such a good idea a week ago.

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5 days ago

When are the Resi 2, 3, and 4 remakes coming to Switch 2, then? C'mon Capcom, don't hold out on me!

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6 days ago

thinking about Resi after wrapping up Requiem last night and it really does feel like the series is now trapped in an irrecoverable creative fissure between the people with the taste to recognise 7 as the best one and those without

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Abigail (now on Netflix) is a nice little film. I just wish they hadn't spoiled the main freaking twist in the marketing back when it first released. But still, some pretty good bloody fun to be had.

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6 days ago

It's a... Not a sprint.

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Ended up taking this for a whirl last night and damn... the jump from 900p to 4K, when coupled with rock-solid 60fps, is totally transformative (surprise, surprise). AC: Unity finally looks and plays like the great game it always should've.

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1 week ago

Unity is my favourite Assassin's Creed after Origins. Definitely gonna check out that 60fps update on PS5 this weekend. 👌

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Mouse P.I. For Hire isn't just Cuphead meets Doom — it's more chaotic than that Much more than just Cuphead with guns, underneath Mouse P.I. For Hire's 1930s cartoon skin is a fun and frantic old-school shooter.

I may have only played through one level, but damn does Mouse: P.I. For Hire have the sauce. The Devarnisher gun is *genius*.

Here's my hands-on preview:

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1 week ago

Fuck yeah. A perfect fit!

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1 week ago

There's leaving people wanting more. Then there's having people wait 9+ years to hear word of the next Uncharted game.

What a shame.

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Happy World Book Day from the team at Bitmap Books 📚

World Book Day is a celebration of reading and all things books 🎉

Check out our full collection: www.bitmapbooks.com

#bitmapbooks #booksky #worldbookday #gaming

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Just got out of the cinema. I'm starting to think that seven Screams is too many Screams.

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Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals.

I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). 

Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. 

While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue.

In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

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Tell me about it dude... It's not only games that are coming out week to week, but genuinely great ones. 😅 Hard to stay on top of.

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