Chris Scullion

Warm take: I'll always love Pilotwings 64 but I've always thought those character designs were awful

I'll defend James Pond to the death (especially RoboCod), it's so sad to see what it's become.

I really want this to be good. I'm hearing Soulslike, which concerns me, but surely it won't be that heavy on the action. Surely.

Here's my latest First Play video. If you like it, please do share it around: these videos tend to do lower numbers because by their very nature they're often dealing with games people are less familiar with. Over time I'm hopeful the audience will build, so every little helps

YouTube video by VGC First Play - Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights (Xbox Series X)

First Play: In our latest First Play video, we try out Cyber Clutch: Hot Import Nights, a futuristic racer available now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWK...

I can’t speak a word of it beyond “thank you” and “sorry” and had no problem at all getting around 👍🏻

That’s something @andyrobinson.bsky.social and I could potentially work on for VGC in the future. I wouldn’t worry about the language barrier, though: although on paper (literally) it looks like the hardest place to understand, you’d be surprised at how English-friendly the signs etc are

Afraid not, it’s a can of Japanese Red Bull on an acrylic stand next to an illustration of him drinking Red Bull. As you do

Nope, bought it in the Capcom store

(Also got my Sega Store stuff previously posted, some brilliant Final Fight figures, a Nanoblock version of the Tokyo Disneyland Toy Story Hotel we stayed at, and various Nintendo Museum shirts which will make appearances over time on the VGC Podcast)

More of my haul from last month’s trip to Japan.

Urgh, my brain. Cheers, fixed!

It was an absolute joy to speak to Hip Tanaka, one of my heroes, at BitSummit last month.

Expect the full interview (which gets very nerdy) on VGC in the near future.

logging onto Bluesky

It's an easy home run, but for a small group (albeit an extremely important one) in the grand scheme of things. If they namecheck the trans community they have to do it with every other one, so I'd imagine that'll come over time. It's 'big picture' stuff just now, I see no reason to be concerned yet

Very odd that this isn't a first-party controller, but it looks lovely regardless. This might become my new PC controller

Tough day at the office but 3 points is 3 points 💚☘️

Now that I'm back from Japan, my VGC Patreon newsletters have resumed.

To make up for not posting one the last few weeks, today's newsletter is an enormous triple-sized beast covering the whole of July.

Includes such 100% serious information as this

www.patreon.com/posts/vgc-ne...

This won't be the last time this happens in the US, I fear

5.82 million consoles sold and 5.63 million copies of Mario Kart is wild.

I know a huge percentage of those were bundled in, but that's also a hell of a lot of people who bought the standalone console (probably because they had no choice) and bought Mario Kart separately.

YouTube video by Nintendo of America NBA BOUNCE – Gameplay Reveal Trailer – Nintendo Switch

This obviously looks like a complete NBA Jam knock-off (despite being 3-on-3) but hey, if it plays like it then I'm in

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSt3...

Bold move to name a game The Adventures of Elliot after what happened last time

Now that I'm back from Japan, First Play can resume.

Nintendo has just announced (without a reason) that it's postponed today's latest round of lottery picks for Switch 2 pre-orders in Japan.

There have been rumours about a Nintendo Direct this week, but given the tsunami news there's a chance that if one does exist it could be delayed.

Happy birthday man. Currently 42 – you'll be grumpy about it for a day then realise nothing's changed and be fine

Next stop, the FIFA Club World Cup

Here's my review of WWE 2K25 on Switch 2.

Finally, FINALLY, there's a great wrestling game on a Nintendo console again.

Thank you so much to everyone who's signed up for the VGC Patreon in its first year. We love creating the extra content for it, and the community on our Discord server as a result of it is such a lovely wee place that brings back that ONM feel for me. You've all made this job more fun again ❤️

To be totally fair, though, I don't think a poll of around 7000 people can be used to determined whether something is "wildly popular" worldwide, especially when more than half of those polled say they don't think this particular law will actually work

That poll isn't telling the full story though. Ask people if porn should be 18+ and of course they'll all say yes, but this law is also affecting social media logins, console logins (Xbox just started adding it etc). The more things it affects, the less people will support it once it affects them