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Chris Scullion

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Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 19 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally

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Based on the others it sounds like three AI takes on the same viewpoint. A lot of these people don't actually care about the review they're writing, they just want to throw in a 0 or 10 because they want to feel like they're making the biggest impact possible on the average score

02.03.2026 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also, this is blatantly the same person

02.03.2026 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder that while this is undoubtedly a story – not every game becomes number 1 on this list – the fact that Cory in the House on DS is at number 4 means this is more a sign of the game's popularity online rather than its quality.

02.03.2026 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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26.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alright Cranky, Jesus

26.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve always considered them shoot β€˜em ups. When you think about it, vertically scrolling 2D ones have you killing everything as you move along the Y axis, and horizontally scrolling 2D ones have you killing everything as you move along the X axis. Star Fox is just the same but on the Z Axis.

26.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Klax deserves so much more love than it gets

26.02.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Urrrgh, fuck sake. That’s terrible news.

26.02.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's nearly an hour and a half of WWE 2K26 gameplay I've now posted over the past few days. Hope it's helped anyone interested in the series!

25.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Aye, it's a tough sell if it's only for that one game

25.02.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t turn it into a must-have (hence the 3) but I think it does make it a reasonable alternative for more casual dabblers who don’t want to go through the faff of setting up the Sinden

25.02.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been spending some time with the G'AIM'E light gun, which lets you play Time Crisis on your modern telly.

While it's pricey, and has its limitations, it's also packing an unadvertised secret that might appeal to PC players.

25.02.2026 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parents’ night at the kid’s school today. She’ll have my job within the next 6 months

24.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WWE 2K26 Gameplay - Inferno Match, I Quit Match
YouTube video by VGC WWE 2K26 Gameplay - Inferno Match, I Quit Match

Video: Here's another 20-minute gameplay video for WWE 2K26, showing its new Inferno and I Quit match types in action.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70g...

24.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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On our coat rack as we enter the house

24.02.2026 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

24.02.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12876    πŸ” 6553    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 193

Real recognise real, as I believe today's youth say.

24.02.2026 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I played WWE 2K26 for a few hours last week, so here's the first (and second in the reply) of a series of gameplay videos I'll be firing up over the next few days.

23.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Olympic figure skaters celebrate their milestone medal win with a Mortal Kombat routine | VGC The pair won Georgia’s first ever Winter Olympics medal earlier in the week…

A pair of Olympic figure skaters celebrating a milestone victory performed a routine based on Mortal Kombat.

Earlier in the week Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava won Georgia's first ever medal at any Winter Olympics.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/olympic...

23.02.2026 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ridge Racer Complete

Bandai Namco's seemingly added a bunch more Ridge Racer soundtracks to Spotify, so I've put together this big 17-hour playlist arranging them all in game release order.

open.spotify.com/playlist/1qL...

22.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Can't believe there's only a day left in this sale. You'd think they'd try to stirrup some more interest

22.02.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooooft.

Interesting that new MS Gaming CEO Asha Sharma – who was president of Microsoft's CoreAI – promises Xbox won't "flood [its] ecosystem with soulless AI slop" and that its games "always will be art, crafted by humans". That's a big day one claim that will be quoted a lot.

20.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

One for my fellow wrestling game fans - I was able to chat with the leads on WWE 2K's MyFaction mode to discuss the new features being added to 2K26, as well as the ever-present microtransaction debate.

20.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I genuinely, on occasion, say "yeah, she said it, you keep dreamin'"

18.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(Obviously that's wildly made up numbers though)

18.02.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. In fact, even if he was only getting Β£20k for 5 hours work that's still a much higher hourly rate and it frees up 15 hours to get more work elsewhere

18.02.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, that's another good point. This is a unique situation because Mowbray's not keeping someone else out of the job, but aye, you've then got an Arc Raiders situation where it's not quite as clear-cut

18.02.2026 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aye. As the article explains too, it seems like it's mainly being used for things like saying single names in different ways ("Ronaldo. Ronaldo!" instead of full sentences and other lines that would require more personality. As long as it stays like that, I'm all for the guy saving his voice

18.02.2026 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This will get the usual reaction but I've been saying for a while that this is one of the directions I was hoping this tech would go.

As long as he gives permission and is adequately compensated (IMPORTANT), of course he'd let Guy MowbrAI help him read 20,000 names in five different ways.

18.02.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Truly you are a man among men

17.02.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0