Matt Lorrigan

A Crack in Time is very daddy issues coded

ALIEN logo being build and the E has no middle line

The ALIEN logo

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

In France and this duck cassoulet nearly killed me, might be one of the best things I’ve eaten

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f

Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com

This is the exact right level of games media / PR drama to keep me ticking over while I’m on holiday

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

We're back baby! Prime time

The Waluigi solo game we deserve

Good right? Some really nice design in there, felt like a really tightly designed selection of levels

No one seems to realize that a large part of the reason the Steam Deck did pretty well is it had a very cheap version

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Technically the return of an official Nintendo magazine?? How strange

Like, to me, Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s structure feels very 3D DKC! But it wouldn’t appeal to people who like DKC for other reasons

Donkey Kong Country is an interesting example where I love the series for its hidden collectibles and secrets, and TGC’s vids are much more about the fast-paced kinetic momentum of them

So it makes sense that I gelled more with Forgotten Land’s collection and exploration than 2D Kirby, which does have some of that, but is generally much faster paced.

I’ve never been able to get on with the Sonic games and I didn’t know why until I watched TGC’s Sonic series. Those levels are designed to be blasted through, you’re not meant to see all of it in one go. But I was raised on slower, secret-based platformers that rewarded level exploration

Josh’s Geek Critique videos have really helped me better understand my own gaming preferences and habits better and this is a super interesting example of this

What's that? *Another* new role open at Secret Mode?!

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♪ Oh my God, I was wrong ♪
♪ Hell Is Us, all along ♪

Trained journalist writing important work question: does anyone outside the UK know what a party ring is?

Degenerative AI

How about that end sequence??

You might be right, gone for now!

FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB! OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME. AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US. WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US. SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY. IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS? SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.

Sword of the Sea fucking rules

@poonikinz.bsky.social hello mate, lovely to see you briefly today! Sorry it was a passing visit, I did loop back round later but couldn’t spot you

They only fucking have

I’m sorry have they got Matt Berry as Bane??