Joe Skrebels

I did a cover feature preview about that game and I'm pretty sure I remember being shut down from asking about whether they could have used it (because I mentioned it several times)

I haven't seen a single news report that tells me whether Netflix buying WB means it owns the Nemesis System patent yet

Cue the "we've accidentally insulted Shibata" story

Two separate dead dog jokes in one list, what an odd fixation we had

The first playable character ever created for the Tony Hawk's series was Bruce Willis

There's a Vampire Survivors spin-off. It's a roguelike deckbuilder. It's also an old-school dungeon crawler. It's also probably other, stranger things. I am hideously psyched - and I got to speak to Luca from Poncle all about where the hell this came from.

YouTube video by PlayStation Statik - Release Trailer | PS VR

Please, Tarsier, when you've finished up on Reanimal, there are fun guys like me who'd like lost classic, Statik to come out on new VR headsets:

youtu.be/i7MVb_rv5sQ?...

Obsidian's Favorite Character Builds for The Outer Worlds 2 - Xbox Wire With early access kicking off today for Premium Edition owners, Obsidian’s QA team shares some of their favorite character builds to help inspire your own role-playing adventure for The Outer Worlds 2...

I love this piece from @mike-nelson.bsky.social - a character build guide for The Outer Worlds 2 with a difference: every entry was contributed by a member of the game's QA team.

news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

Told you

I feel like it's gone undersung that Rise of the Golden Idol's DLC this year (which is now all out there), has effectively been an entire new game's worth of cases - and it works like a side-quel (ugh) to both of the first two games.

Honestly, just an incredible thing.

He just has a startlingly wide head

Look, sometimes you're just trying to take a picture of Wayne Rooney on the TV, but you accidentally capture a frame in a dissolve, and it looks like Noah Hawley was trying to communicate that Wayne had deep thoughts about Mo Salah

I'm doing my first ever livestream 😬

Join me for 'UNKNOWN TREASURES', where I spin rogue forgotten vinyl that I've found in charity shops and we listen to it for the first time together.

First stream 📅 Thu 25 Sep 🕘 9-10pm UK

Smash that sub button or whatever: youtube.com/@unknowntreasuresmichaelm

West Ham Games Division confirmed

This is going to be a treat.

I STAND BY IT

A post in which I resist the primal urge to just extend the word "Yesssssss" to 15,000 characters

Christ, I'd never even considered Log-coded visual imagery

"Golf"

I like to watch back my daily movements as I fall asleep

"Do you want to climb that mountain? No? My point rests"

Me, accidentally dressed as my Skate character

My Skate character, accidentally dressed like me

The amazing thing about video games is that they can really let you express a different side of yourself, something that perhaps you couldn't or wouldn't reveal in the real world

YouTube video by Koumei Dynasty Warriors 3 - You flaming idiots!

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The worst part is I didn't even need to look at the original message to know which boss this is.

007 First Light Is So Much More Than A Hitman Game in Disguise - Xbox Wire We got our first, extended look at 007 First Light - and it's an incredibly exciting new take on a James Bond game.

Little entry I couldn't include from my notes for this piece: "Fucking hell it looks good" news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

YouTube video by Xbox No Ghosts at the Grand Deep Dive | Official Xbox Podcast

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has been an exciting weirdo enigma to me since it was revealed, so I was very happy to ask @fridaysundae.bsky.social a lot of questions that effectively boiled down "what the hell is this game?" on the Xbox Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGR...

Project Bloomwalker is A Beautiful Crafting Adventure About Purifying The World, and We Love It - Xbox Wire Project Bloomwalker is a gorgeous new crafting game where your home follows you through its world - find out more inside.

And @daniellepartis.bsky.social wrote about a game you may have missed getting announced - Project Bloomwalker, or "Howl's Moving Cottage" as I'm insisting on calling it: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...