Bertie

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So, um, Mafia crashed 6 times in a row 😬

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I'm streaming with the wonderful @midessie.bsky.social again! And this time it's the brand new Mafia: The Old Country on the slate. Can it break the Mafia curse! Let's see. Live any minute now twitch.tv/midessie

As the TTRPG media sphere contracts, we're expanding -- Rascal is hiring a news writer!

We're running a short 2 week pledge drive, offering a 6 month, 25% discount, celebrating our Diana Jones Award... nomination... in order to support this new hire.

Terra Nil received a new "Heatwave Update" yesterday, and it's on sale as part of the Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam!

🗺️ 3 new unique maps
🐘 13 new animals
🛖 10 new buildings
🌵 5 new biomes to transform

Michelle Gomez issues Instagram statement after Harry Potter casting backlash Actress Michelle Gomez has responded to backlash after she was cast in new audiobook series Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

So one of the crazy things you can do if you're a Beloved British Actor is NOT agree to be in a Harry Potter thing.

The way you do it is:

1) Don't agree to be in a Harry Potter thing
2) See 1)

Hope that guide helps all the Beloved British Actors out there unsure how to do this. 👍

Good luck DF! I remember you joining Eurogamer many, many years ago. Genuinely excited to see what you do next!

Draw Steel sets new standards for alt text in their books A deep dive into what an Art Description is, how it works, and who it’s for, including an interview with alt text writer, Jen Kretchmer.

Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor.

Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.

Hah! I didn't even notice the gif had spelled the game name wrong. Still looks good enough to me tbh

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I've been playing a lot of Grounded 2 so I was very happy to be asked to stream it with @midessie.bsky.social tonight. Any excuse and all that.

Live roundabout now! Come say hello! Twitch.tv/midessie

DVD cover for the film Dark Avenger. It shows a man with his face half-covered in a metallic mask and the tagline "His justice was final"

DVD cover for the 1995 film Black Scorpion starring Joan Severance. She is posing in a costume that is a mixture of superhero and dominatrix. The tagline reads "Justice has a nasty sting".

VHS cover for the film MANTIS, the pilot movie for the TV show of the same name produced by Sam Raimi and written by Sam Hamm, who also wrote the '89 Batman. Carl Lumbly is seen on the cover wearing a metal mask which covers most of his face. The tagline identifies MANTIS as an acronym for Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System.

Promo thumbnail for the 1994 TV movie Model By Day. Famke Janssen poses with hands on hips wearing a small purple costume with stockings and suspenders, and a shiny purple helmet with sunglasses.

Been thinking a lot recently about how the success of the 1989 Batman movie resulted in a wave of knock-off superhero media, with Darkman the most high profile, while the direct-to-video market was flooded with cheap, cheesy, but original hero characters.

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I never thought I'd be a Love Island person.

I am now a Love Island person.

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Wow. I haven't used the Xbox PC app in ages, if ever, and the download speeds are horrendous. I'm getting like 2.7 MB/s on a gigabit line. SNORE

Ooh gorgeous

Motion to implement a game recycling initiative whereby BioWare recycled the world of Anthem into a single-player game

Does Link's human face in the Zelda movie make anyone else feel a little... odd? A reflection on the way that the Zelda games encourage a certain kind of imaginative connection.

"Link, in a way, is a cypher..." www.eurogamer.net/does-links-h...

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Researching some Anthem stuff and strayed into an eerily prescient comment made about the game two years before it was released.

"Lmao it's going to be a glorious pile of crap."

:D

Stop using WeTransfer - especially for anything work-for-hire or covered by NDA.

I reviewed Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream. Love a stealth tactics game, and enjoyed this one a lot, but it doesn't quite do the business.

Caught on camera: my horrid laptop posture!

This talk was fascinating - thank you. Particularly taken by the idea that games could have emotional difficulty levels in the same way they do mechanical difficulty levels. I think I mentioned this to everyone I bumped into at the event!

The story of Phasmophobia: How The Witcher 3 inadvertently saved the ghost-hunting game that sold 25 million copies We travel to Phasmophobia creator Daniel Knight's house to talk near-misses, life-changing success, the film, and the game's biggest days being yet to come.

Here's a bigger piece I've been working on. I went to meet the Phasmophobia creator at his home recently, to talk about the game's extraordinary success, its future, the film adaptation, and how it almost never came to be www.eurogamer.net/the-story-of...

Bonus points for the posh Leffe glass, too

The good thing is that you're not drinking, you're tasting. Exploring! Sampling. It's a win-win, guilt free situation

Phwoar 😍😍😍

A doorway with the number 46 on. Then the word "finally!" Added on top. It's a screenshot from Blue Prince and this is the fables 46th door.

A million Days later... (And now the real mystery begins)

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Enjoyed Superman! Loved a lot of the decisions that made the story more unexpected that I, um, expected. Stylish, funny - some great bants - and very likeable. And not afraid to stand for things.

It's good huh!

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KPop Demon Hunters has reached me. Cannot look away. Help

Looks very nice!