Hit Points by Nathan Brown

Top story! My god. Might as well lead with ‘Revealed: Winner of FA Cup two years ago’

A poster for the movie Wakefield.

A poster for the movie Jumper.

A poster for the movie Chips.

A poster for the movie The Loft.

Films that sound rubbish if you're British.

Bad drawing of an idea titled: Portable built in drive-in for car pictured is a car with its headlights shining on a screen held up by two giraffes, yes, giraffes. The projection from the headlights is labelled: headlights project movie, the screen and giraffes are also labelled. I'm gonna be rich

billionaires should not exist but im about to become one

Almost the perfect byline

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

went to type "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" and my phone autocorrected it to "Islamabad Kingdom Brunel", and anyway who would like to book my new, incredibly niche and very culturally insensitive drag act

The narrative that the ruling class "went insane" during COVID was apparently not totally accurate. In actuality, they all believed that the Me Too movement killed their beloved pedophile fixer and lockdown just delayed them eventually punishing us all for it.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Oh for fuck’s sake

Truly, the social media ban we need is for the over 60s.

Website idea: Metacritic equivalent for absolutely honking tweets from increasingly addled CEOs

Try a couple decades of shitty emails ranging from simple insults all the way up to death threats from idiot fanboys who can't handle you giving a game "only" 8/10 and see which one puts more calluses on your soul, dummy. You'd fold in six months or less.

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Hello! Would you like a long, distracting read about chasing a dream, perfecting analog video, battling AI-driven manufacturing shortages, and sticking to the principle of doing right by the open source MiSTer community? Here's that

Yes! professional competence is the best genre

The GOAT for sure. The wife and I rewatch it every few years and we’re due for one but I’m not sure now is the time really. It’s basically a work of fantasy at this point

Ubisoft is very, very bad at this: newsletter.hitpoints.co/354-les-inco...

Ubisoft is very, very bad at this: newsletter.hitpoints.co/354-les-inco...

He's right! newsletter.hitpoints.co/354-les-inco...

A screenshot of a paragraph from the Hit Points newsletter that reads: Little remains of Meta’s VR-game acquisition spree, which began in 2020. Ready At Dawn was closed down in 2024, and Downpour Interactive followed last year. According to the in-the-know cats at UploadVR, Meta’s only remaining studios are Beat Games, maker of the colossally successful Beat Saber; BigBoxVR (me neither); whoever’s left at Camouflaj; and Ouro Interactive, which I’m not sure counts because it exclusively makes games for the Horizon Worlds legless-metaverse-thing. You do not need to put on a headset to see the writing on the wall, which is just as well because all the headsets are in cupboards or lofts or little storage boxes, and would need digging out and charging and who can be bothered with that? In a way, I suppose, that’s been VR gaming’s story all along.

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Oh my god. I must have it la-machine.fr/us

Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK.

'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon!

Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you.

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Picross on a big telly is one of life’s great luxuries.

We're looking for a News Editor to join TWIV. Ideal candidate would have proven experience with:

- Working in news for a games outlet
- Conducting original reporting
- Mentoring junior writers

...and genuinely enjoy writing news, diving deep, and talking to people. UK timezone preferred. Email me.

In the Market for Gaming Hardware? You Should Probably Act Now Nathan Brown thinks you should probably buy that fancy gaming hardware thing you want, because it isn’t getting any cheaper.

May of us try to tighten our belts in the new year, but former Edge editor Nathan Brown of @hitpoints.bsky.social thinks that when it comes to gaming hardware, now's not the time to try and save money -- it'll only cost you more in the long run.

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The developers of PEAK explain pricing

From a guy who deplatformed tens of millions of his own users so he could pressure Apple and Google to change what he considered an immoral policy. Billionaire headloss in the 2020s will be a rich topic of study one day, not sure there's been a more dramatic, weird or stupid example than this guy