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Shay Thompson

@shay-thompson.bsky.social

Presenter, host, tastemaker. Seen/heard on BBC, BAFTA and more

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Latest posts by shay-thompson.bsky.social on Bluesky

i normally stop watching/playing/reading everything when i'm prepping for a big hosting gig. but my nearly completed ball x pit playthrough is calling my name so hard

05.11.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

so, so good. it came out during a particularly bleak time for the MK series as well

22.10.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fading Echo

Upcoming game Fading Echo with Samantha Bรฉart!

2pm BST Tuesday 21st October

With IVGO members Phoebe, Louis, and Adam

Youtube + Twitch @IrishVideoGameOrchestra

In aid of the Motor Neuron Disease Association

Fading Echo Upcoming game Fading Echo with Samantha Bรฉart! 2pm BST Tuesday 21st October With IVGO members Phoebe, Louis, and Adam Youtube + Twitch @IrishVideoGameOrchestra In aid of the Motor Neuron Disease Association

๐ŸšจStream Announcement!๐Ÿšจ

We'll be playing the upcoming game from @newtales.bsky.social, @fadingechogame.bsky.social joined by the wonderful @samanthabeart.bsky.social!

2pm BST this Tuesday 21st October

This is our first ever Twitch/YouTube stream, in aid of @mndassoc.bsky.social #GameOver! ๐ŸŽฎโ™ฅ๏ธ

19.10.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

like, rah woke is really over!

08.10.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Black History Month in the UK is largely ignored by the games industry anyway but this has to be the quietest Iโ€™ve ever seen it. No panels, no events, nothing. Damn.

08.10.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I canโ€™t believe I get to say this but Iโ€™m going to be interviewing Michaela Jae Rodriguez on the Charlotte Tilbury twitch channel ๐Ÿฅน

Weโ€™ll be chatting all things Pose, gaming and make up โœจ

twitch.tv/charlottetilbury

02.10.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

I had the pleasure of hosting & streaming with @indiearenabooth.de at #gamescom this year, and I got to share my top 10 picks from the entire line-up at 2025 IAB. Here they are, and here's me attempting to quickly describe them to @shay-thompson.bsky.social๐Ÿ˜ www.twitch.tv/videos/25528... #indiegames

03.09.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do you justโ€ฆ not know what opinions are? I donโ€™t think anything here was presented as fact

26.08.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Considering this is some of the only major reporting on this shitshow, disappointing doesn't even begin to cover it. @geekycassie.bsky.social @frankieward.bsky.social et al deserve way better

23.08.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Guild, Beckhamโ€™s Former Esports Team, Folds After 6 Years Just 13 days short of its iron anniversary, British competitive gaming outfit Guild Esports, once backed by David Beckham, has announced itโ€™s shutting shop.

I'm gobsmacked at how awful this reporting of Guild Esports' closing is

No mention of the exploited and unpaid players, presenters and talent. Instead, the writer decides to focus on a conversation they had with the *former* CEO for some reason?

www.forbes.com/sites/mattga...

23.08.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

12.08.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1157    ๐Ÿ” 299    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

New trailer from me! For the critically acclaimed, cool as hell, Neurocracy.

Making a trailer for a game about delving through fictional wiki pages and making conspiracy boards was an interesting challenge, so hopefully I've done justice to a supremely interesting, compelling game

09.07.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

For this week's VGIM, do video games have an auteur problem?

I sweated buckets at the Death Stranding 2 launch event to find out.

03.07.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿณ Feast your eyes - the Indie Arena Booth 2025 lineup trailer is served! ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ

Our Theme? โ€œWatch us cook.โ€ Weโ€™re bringing 200+ blazing-hot indie games to gamescom 2025!

You will want a taste ๐Ÿ˜‹

๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Full lineup here: indiearenabooth.de

#IndieGame #GameDev #IAB25

01.07.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 159    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

No because put his show back on the air, Iโ€™m so serious

26.06.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me wearing kitten heels every time I go out-out ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

23.06.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wrote about SGF, ICE, and covering the event as first-generation US born person.

11.06.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1206    ๐Ÿ” 333    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

This is where Iโ€™m at re narrative/performance. I thought it was me being a grouch but I was not connecting with the story at all because of the dialogue. Feels so awkward at times. Humour deffo not coming through either

26.05.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

where's that racism watch dog when you need it

25.04.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A comic page with three panels.

Panel one. An industrial elevator arrives at a concrete corridor where a top heavy robot stands by outside. As the doors part open, a three armed prisoner slips out from a crowd of inmates while a one eared man cries after her "Hey!"

Panel two. A rounded green stained concrete tunnel from above, prisoners in various states of undress marching in a line along the metal floor under the watch of CCTV and a towering robot, past a security booth built into the wall. "Inmates, proceed single file." the robot orders

Panel three. Three armed woman down to her underwear, staring into the booth through the thick glass window at a guard enjoying a cup of something, next to three hanging uniforms and lockers.

A comic page with three panels. Panel one. An industrial elevator arrives at a concrete corridor where a top heavy robot stands by outside. As the doors part open, a three armed prisoner slips out from a crowd of inmates while a one eared man cries after her "Hey!" Panel two. A rounded green stained concrete tunnel from above, prisoners in various states of undress marching in a line along the metal floor under the watch of CCTV and a towering robot, past a security booth built into the wall. "Inmates, proceed single file." the robot orders Panel three. Three armed woman down to her underwear, staring into the booth through the thick glass window at a guard enjoying a cup of something, next to three hanging uniforms and lockers.

World's shit, am feeling like shit, so if you could take a minute to cheer me up by checking out ma comic I am working very hard on, that would be cool.

There's a new page today and it's even got a robot in it

โžก๏ธ iteatsplanets.com/page/29

17.04.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Donate to help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery, organized by Is Dexter i work 9 to 5 but live paycheck to paycheck, paying rent for a flatshare in ouโ€ฆ Is Dexter needs your support for help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery

If you're in the UK, appalled by the supreme court's decision and would like to MATERIALLY help trans women TODAY, consider literally donating to helping my girlfriend to get gender affirming care:

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ishaa...

16.04.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 248    ๐Ÿ” 335    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

regardless of todayโ€™s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

16.04.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3246    ๐Ÿ” 817    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame

08.04.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3441    ๐Ÿ” 2662    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

please not this delay

02.04.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

did they just slide in silksong really casually

02.04.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I chuckled

27.03.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just think itโ€™ll be funnier if it isnโ€™t ๐Ÿ˜ญ

27.03.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m so sorry.

25.02.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

HIIIII ๐Ÿ˜—

23.02.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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