Joseph Barron

End of an era, as the final Slightly Mad Studios game available to buy is set to be delisted. PC3 was a project fraught with challenges and issues, and while the final game wasn’t what PC2 fans wanted, if we had positioned it properly it could have been a worthy successor to games like GRID and PGR.

Get yourself to a show! They’re great live and they tour the UK every year.

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Giant Bomb Forever.

Lewis Hamilton fronts the Iconic Edition key art for EA SPORTS F1 25.

Our Iconic Edition simply had to be red this year.

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
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AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

Finished this game in one sitting today for well over the 100th time in my life. Locked-on with Sonic 3, naturally.

My wife absolutely nailed it with the gifts this year! Happy Crimbo everyone.

1 in 5 devs got sacked in the past two years. 1 in 10 left the industry entirely. 1/3 of juniors gave up on breaking in.

The PTSD is real 😆

Ah yes. The Game Awards. My annual reminder that I should probably write a book about one particular chapter in my career...

If these things included PC it would make me look like even more of a basic sports gamer with all the licensed racing games to prop up the football stuff!

Every year I think I’ve played a great variety of games. Every year it’s the football game that comes out on top. It’s a sickness! Glad that FF7R, Infinite Wealth and Astro Bot made it into my top 5 though. I’ll just pretend my number 4 wasn’t last year’s football game too…

This is one of the most underrated games and soundtracks on the Mega Drive. Well worth a look if you’ve never tried it. #retrogaming

Is this house we worship at the altar of “Lock-On Technology.” #retrogaming

My last 10 GOTY picks:

2023: Alan Wake II
2022: Kirby & the Forgotten Land
2021: Yakuza: Like A Dragon
2020: Astro's Playroom
2019: Control
2018: Yakuza 6
2017: Breath of the Wild
2016: Hitman
2015: Metal Gear Solid V
2014: Assetto Corsa

It was a weird era. I once got sent to a strip club (at 10am) near Buckingham Palace in London to meet Randy Pitchford and preview Duke Nukem Forever 😬 I don’t always miss those days!

I had no idea this existed. Adding it to my racing backlog!

The PAL box front for Capcom Fighting Jam on the PlayStation 2. This is the European version of Capcom Fighting Evolution.

I’ve been playing the MvC collection all afternoon, so inspired by my Capcom mood, here’s today’s random game from my collection. Probably Capcom’s worst early 00s fighter, but an interesting curiosity because of the unusual mix of sprites & artwork taken from a variety of other games. #retrogaming

The box for the new new Lego Technic Ferrari SF-24.

I knew the new #Lego partnership with #F1 was going to hurt my wallet the second they announced it a few weeks ago. Had to pre-order this one as soon as it went live today.

You weren't bad on the third one yourself 🙌

Four games I've worked on:
I could have gone with just racing games, but I had to find at least a bit of variety!

The stylish cover of the Neo-Geo CD version of Windjammers. Showing the main characters locked in an intense match of Flying Power Disc.

The back story for Klaus Wessel, the slowest character in the game, confirms his biggest limitation. He runs like a wounded sea turtle. Specific, but true!

Today’s random game from my collection is the Neo-Geo CD version of Windjammers. One of my favourite ever 2-player games. The manual for this version has some lovely artwork and great little backstories for the characters. I love the arranged soundtrack too. #retrogaming

The computer thing was a bit of a Free Radical trope at the time. They did it in the TimeSplitters games too.

It’s a PAL copy of Sky Odyssey for the PlayStation 2. The cover art shows a bi-plane flying over a canyon.

Todays random game from my collection is one I’m replaying at the moment. A flight game that’s all about the journey, adventure, & good vibes, rather than combat. With great music by Kow Otani who went on to compose for Shadow of the Colossus. #retrogaming

It’s a PAL copy of Mr Moskeeto for the PlayStation 2. The cover depicts the main character buzzing through a Japanese living room, and the font choice is awful. Thanks Fresh Games!

It’s about time I join in with the #retrogaming crowd posting a random game from their collection on Saturdays. Here’s a recent acquisition that I’d been hunting for a good couple of years.

I think this Xbox Live Arcade title was the first review I got paid for by GameSpot in 2010. As @alexnavarro.bsky.social said, there was a time where you could make a decent living writing about smaller games, but sadly those days are long gone.