Francisco Dominguez

My first Metal Gear game -perhaps even stealth game generally - was this Game Boy Color one!

It sure set me up for a lifetime of teasing guards into futile loops around shipping containers.

Gamers and content creators tend to criticize games thinking that the pressure will fall on the company owners or the publishers, but the first one to suffer all the harsh comments and the hate are the developers who invested years of their lives on them.

This is not a complaint, just a reminder.

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I really liked how you both articulated the process-driven act of writing and coalescing thoughts.

I've been wanting to train my critic brain, as I feel my writing style is sometimes better than the underlying thoughts. That notetaking method you mention sounds worth trying to help that.

Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies

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Relooted's out. The best part of any heist is the crew, so I wrote a guide breaking down the Regular Jo(hannesburgian)s' ziplining, hacking and muscle mommy skills you use as the Kindly Klepto Club - name TBD - reclaim history.

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Perhaps even a whole chamber of secret lairs

Copa City kicks off an all-new genre with its soccer stadium tycoon sim A club executive turned game developer talks about the upcoming Copa City and explains how sports event management is the missing piece of the 360-degree soccer experience.

Copa City's the stadium tycoon about an entire city's sporting transformation.

I chatted to the real-life football exec behind it about tackling high-stakes event management, home team mischief, violent ultras and Arsenal's less than family friendly chants.

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The Wild Robot for magical environmentalism, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for nostalgia.

Maybe Stardust for whimsical fantasy (although that's probably more The Princess Bride).

Gotta say, I'm enjoying the emerging games journalism genre of "make Bennett Foddy do an unusually high concept interview."

He's gone for a walk. He's climbed a mountain. Bring on the track and field sprint interview next.

Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026 I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.

Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

The natural fire resistance helps even the odds.

Mothership Is A New Website About Gender And Games Which Feels Like A Radical Thing To Launch In 2026 But Shouldn't Be - Kotaku Founded by ex-Polygon editors, it's for her, them, and even him

This is such a thoughtful piece from @ethangach.bsky.social about what @midimyers.com and I went through after Polygon’s sale and why we decided to found @mothership.blog. Thanks for everything Ethan!! ✨ kotaku.com/mothership-i...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

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Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.

Patrick Dane's Top 5 Games of the Year News editor and live-service die-hard Patrick Dane shares his favourite games from 2025, not all of which have been "officially" released.

Patrick Dane's final piece for This Week in Videogames was his 2025 Game of the Year list, which he tackled with great enthusiasm and excitement.

As an avid follower of live-service games, he was eager to make sure the standout titles in the space this year received their due.

Thank you, Patrick.

I chatted to the ChromaGun 2 team about reinventing the color wheel, and operating in the first-person puzzler genre Portal arguably invented and perfected in just two games.

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Hey folks,

I'm looking to speak to a developer who has previously made a game/games through Steam early access, and decided NOT to make their next/current project through early access. If that's you, get in touch at rick@ricklane.co.uk. Reposts appreciated.

Patrick Dane, This Week in Videogames News Editor, Dies Patrick will be remembered for his passion and enthusiasm for his work and the games industry, and as a cherished colleague and friend.

Patrick Dane, longtime games and entertainment journalist and News Editor at This Week in Videogames, has died in a motor vehicle accident. He was 34 years old.

Awful news. I don't meet many games journalists, but Patrick was so kind and friendly to me when I awkwardly struck up a conversation about getting into games media at an event ten years back.

G-Rebels gets the cyberpunk flight combat sim to finally take off Reakktor Studios waited decades for someone to revive an overlooked PlayStation classic. The developers tell us how they got fed up with waiting and made it themselves.

Reakktor Studios waited decades for someone, anyone, to make a spiritual successor to PS1 cyberpunk flight sim G-Police.

They told me what happened when they got fed up of waiting and made it themselves.

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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder “The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

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I'm back at Nintendo Life talking about Rayman 2: The Great Escape – out now on NSO.

I've never forgotten its oddball creativity in a time when a braver, weirder Ubisoft tested the limits of the 3D platformer.

(Partly because I played the opening dozens of times, as I didn't own a memory card!)

A decade on from Gamergate, how has the games industry changed for women? Some of gaming's most influential women share their experiences, along with what still needs to be done

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤

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Soapbox: Rayman Legends Blew My Mind Then Broke My Heart Prince of Persia fans beware - he may suffer Rayman’s fate yet!

I love the giddy thrills of Rayman Legends, which I wrote about for its 10 year anniversary a couple of years back, but I still regret Rayman 2 into Beyond Good & Evil didn't become an abandoned platformer experiment.

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Nuts to Mario: How a £10 discount made me a 'Wario Kid' for life Don't forget the Wario fans – there are dozens of us! Dozens!

This is the second in my unofficial "games I bought and made a cornerstone of my gaming personality simply because I couldn't afford Mario" series.

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