Graham Smith

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

Mr. Burns, glowing green, bringing people love in a drug-induced haze as Smithers reaches to stop him.

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Hot damn, what a nice thing to say! Thanks Katharine. Hopefully we get to work together again some day. Say hi to Scotland for me.

Thanks Evan. Hope everything is well with all of you at PC Gamer.

Thanks Kat! Hit me up if you're ever near Brighton again, we can lament the state of our football teams

Thanks Keza!

Thanks Kieron. I wrote every edition in the "THE SUNDAY PAPERS" Google Doc you're still the owner of, which Jim shared with me in 2013. That thing must really smell bad by now.

Of course this is what happens at the Ivor Cutler lookalike contest

Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

Retweeting yourself once seems permissible. Doing it repeatedly, day after day, the same post? Straight to jail.

Thanks Jen! That means a lot.

Donkey Kong Bananza review - delirious destruction derby takes hammer to platforming conventions Given that its hero can smash through any barrier – which is delightful fun in itself – Nintendo’s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity

Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.

Thanks for keeping your word @grahamsmith.bsky.social

That was a great series!

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The last 12-18 months have been tough, but the team that remains is as brilliant as ever. If you'd like to help them achieve new things, you can apply for my role here: jobs.jobvite.com/ign/job/oN7r...

The thing I'm most proud of are the teams I was able to build and the writers I got to work with. RPS has had some of the best staff and freelancers, shown by their work for us but also all they've gone on to do afterwards. I was at best their pit crew, and I'm grateful to them all.

When I joined RPS, it was an independent site with six writers who were either founders or contractors. There was never a dull moment in trying to stabilise, grow and diversify that site, while trying to maintain the things that make it special, across three corporate acquisitions.

After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.

That's good to hear confirmed, thanks. It seems like I can also attach an email to it while they're <16 as long as I approve it. But yeah, the real doubt is what uncontrollable restrictions it might have. I think we just need to try it on a dummy account and see if it blocks something.

People say Microsoft's system is better, but from the time I have spent administrating a Minecraft realm and various mods across different platforms: no, no it is not.

Are Nintendo kids accounts the same? No idea. No one seems to know. Nintendo doesn't say. You can have supervised accounts with or without an email address, but the age, once set, can't be changed, so high stakes if it's limited in some unknown way.

If you set up an Apple account for a kid, it locks them out of certain online services permanently. It means that game unlocks + microtransactions are tied to the device, not an account, and can't be migrated to, say, a new platform or used in crossplay.

A browser history list of Google searches for details related to Nintendo Switch Online, family memberships, virtual game cards, and child/supervised account restrictions.

I think what I love most about Nintendo consoles is how intuitive they are for families. [Spends four hours Googling for information Nintendo doesn't give you anywhere.]

This never happened when I used to play five a side. Not literally, anyway. Metaphorically, sure.

Rematch puts "defensive stance" on LT, but press it during celebrations and it unmutes your microphone. Did this unknowingly last night and broadcast a YT video I was watching on a 2nd screen on comms until someone shouted at me.

The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk

I'm sure the game developers at Microsoft appreciate hack journalists rushing to incorrectly announce their studio's closure for clout. That's how you be an ally to the workers

Long-term followers: this is me applying my RPS style to toys. Gags, analysis, diversions, existential crisis.

Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does.

New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.

You can set the content restriction to only allow shows rated "PG" and then the menu is still like, "Top Picks For You: Attack On Titan".

"Note: Your profile’s content restrictions settings do not filter or remove shows from Crunchyroll's catalog. While you can view all show pages, you can only access and play content permitted by your profile settings."

This is exceptionally dumb. Handing the Crunchyroll app to a kid means handing them a menu with 100 buttons that don't work, and you can only tell which after clicking on each of them twice.