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Leon Hurley

@leonhurley.bsky.social

Guides boss at GamesRadar. Formerly Kotaku, Official PlayStation, teacher, musician, scientist. Did a lot of jobs, basically. Likes horror, game dev, made a banjo once.

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Going to see a lot of Xbox studio heads deciding itโ€™s time to start a new chapter in the next few months arenโ€™t we. Good job Xbox bought all the developers. Well done.

21.02.2026 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hmmm HMMMMM

20.02.2026 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

20.02.2026 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4388    ๐Ÿ” 1047    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

Man, I feel like there could have been an almost unlimited number of old PlayStation games they could have been set on instead of this.

19.02.2026 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just plug me into Silent Hill Townfall now.

12.02.2026 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, Iโ€™m assuming the hidden ending explains more. I assumed there was one per child but I swear I found enough for that.

11.02.2026 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reanimal review: "A feast of twisted weirdness conjuring up unpleasant imagery and dark world building" The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+

I seem to be at the lower end of the Reanimal reviews. I liked it - it's full of beautifully made horrorscapes and moments. I just felt like it didn't entirely come together across the whole experience. www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...

11.02.2026 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Always remember this Peanuts cartoon. Always surprised by how dark the original strip could be.

08.02.2026 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.

05.02.2026 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 513    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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#DERELIKT will release this year - a narrative retro FPS inspired by Alien Resurrection, Doom 3 and System Shock 2. ๐Ÿช #screenshotsaturday #ps1 #psx #hauntedps1

01.02.2026 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 158    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, โ€œThe dog understands โ€˜Take it!โ€™ It does not understand โ€˜Put it down!โ€™โ€

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

13.11.2024 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7760    ๐Ÿ” 2138    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 198
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Oh go on then.

23.01.2026 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was part the direct livestream thing last night.

23.01.2026 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really torn on the whole โ€˜leave a giant Richard Ayoade corpse on the horizonโ€™ in Fable because I want to be a good hero, but then I wonโ€™t get my giant corpse on the horizon.

23.01.2026 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ontos looks like it's channeling the spirit of the most upsetting horror game I've ever played, and I'm not sure I can do it again Opinion | A spiritual successor to one of the most traumatic games I've ever played? Oh go on then

Wrote a little about why Ontos being a spiritual successor to Soma is giving me the fear based on what we've seen @frictionalgames.bsky.social www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...

20.01.2026 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seriously though, I am curious about zombies that sort of remember being alive. Still canโ€™t tell where Requiem is going to land though, seems to have elements of 7, Village and 4, which is a weird Venn diagram.

15.01.2026 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Resident Evil Requiem (2026)

15.01.2026 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is 100% correct.

12.01.2026 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yay to PS6 costing $1200.

11.01.2026 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
cowboy take me away
YouTube video by Fire Swimmer - Topic cowboy take me away

brb having a breakdown as I discover my favourite song in the world right now is a cover of a 1999 Dixie Chicks track youtu.be/ZHcI0MxWJzI?...

30.12.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s been like three years since they blew the whistle on a 20-year old paper that shaped Alzheimerโ€™s research and turned out to be fraudulent.

28.12.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
adam.tsuris
@AdamTsuris
Somewhere along the way, being wrong about facts was reclassified as "having an opinion," and knowing facts was stigmatized as "having bias." It's a big part of why we're in hell now.

adam.tsuris @AdamTsuris Somewhere along the way, being wrong about facts was reclassified as "having an opinion," and knowing facts was stigmatized as "having bias." It's a big part of why we're in hell now.

16.12.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1709    ๐Ÿ” 559    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Just no idea when Iโ€™m going to get a chance to play it, but such good memories of that campaign and canโ€™t say no at that price. Never understood why it was niche cultish thing. Such clever writing and design; a real lesson in game making.

27.12.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kamen Rider Wizard (2012)
Episode 16

25.12.2025 04:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1313    ๐Ÿ” 738    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Didnโ€™t think it was possible to do a bad version of Hallelujah but boy Pentatonix sure proved me wrong.

24.12.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He met me the next day for a breakfast interview and was just one of those people you could listen to talk about games for ages. Never had the heart to tell him heโ€™d got the left and right the wrong around on the sound and half way though the first level I had to yank the wires out and re do it.

22.12.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Spent that evening playing LAN multiplayer with him and a bunch of Acti people, drinking beer and eating pizza. I had a really good run and remember his head popping above the monitors to shout โ€˜who that fuck is that?!โ€™ The whole thing was one of the most formative memories of my career.

22.12.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t believe the Vince Zampella news. One of the first big devs I met, doing the 2007 Modern Warfare review in Activisionโ€™s Slough office. Heโ€™d gone out and bought a sound system himself because he wasnโ€™t happy with the review set up and I first met him on the floor behind the TV setting it up.

22.12.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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