Chris Scullion

One thing I love about Scott Pilgrim EX is that it's packed with references to other games, but they're often subtle ones where if you get it, you'll smile and if you don't, there's no harm done.

As a big fan of the first Scott Pilgrim game I was hoping the sequel wouldn't drop the ball.

It definitely doesn't.

100%. I get that it's a psychological thing and that on paper it's technically the same outcome, but if it's something I'm not previously familiar with, "here's our game, give it a shot" is more likely to get me to engage with it than "here's our game, ask us and we'll let you give it a shot"

Unless I'm interpreting Jeff's post wrong, I think he's saying (which I agree with) that if it's a game that isn't necessarily on our radar, receiving a Steam key directly in our email without us asking for it is far more likely to be redeemed than us having to click through to a site and request it

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

Also, this is blatantly the same person

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.

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Alright Cranky, Jesus

I’ve always considered them shoot ‘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.

Klax deserves so much more love than it gets

Urrrgh, fuck sake. That’s terrible news.

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!

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

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

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.

Parents’ night at the kid’s school today. She’ll have my job within the next 6 months

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.

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On our coat rack as we enter the house

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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.

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

(Obviously that's wildly made up numbers though)

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