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The half-size blue bins (cardboard recycling) on our estate are finally getting full-size replacements and it’s honestly my most hotly anticipated release this year

Every second published non-fiction author during the age of AI

Tonight I’m watching Minority Report, which combines Greek tragedy with the most inspired and absurd failing-forward action you can imagine. A man escapes the cops by falling inside a Lexus during assembly at the Lexus factory and proceeding to drive away in it. Indiana Jones would simply applaud.

Don’t: threaten me with a good time Do: threaten me with an unsatisfying time (Courtesy of the strange devils @failbettergames.com)

Checked to make sure they'd hit the most important train game of all, and they have.

Most couples.

Built a diving bell from whirring contraptions and amber this morning with the help of an order of brawling monks, wbu #fallenlondon

A rare post-apocalyptic story that has the imagination to think beyond survivalism. And all the sweeter for not running indefinitely.

My on-off Doctor Who rewatch has arrived at ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’, and what an extraordinary self-contained story it is. Has a powerful grasp on what time creates - yearning, disappointment, final fulfilment - and what it destroys.

For IGN: “Sharma echoes Elon Musk, whose typical approach is to yank wires out of the machine, and discover afterwards whether any of them were essential.” www.ign.com/articles/xbo...

By Scrapping Studios and Doubling Down on Decades-Old Franchises, Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never RecaptureXbox's big reset has scrapped studios building original ideas in favour of doubling down on legacy IP - but how will it find its next big franchise if it only focuses on the old?www.ign.com

A shipwreck that never tasted salt

One year I'll finally have enough spare income kicking around to get to Develop and see my peers. This time I'll settle for hearing that someone said a nice thing *about* me while they were there.

This is excellent news. Deceive Inc is the most creative and bold of the extraction games I've played - essentially Hitman in multiplayer - and I was worried it would vanish. Glad to see @morganpark.bsky.social still championing it too. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/cl...

Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'Deceive Inc. was great, and now it'll live on.www.pcgamer.com

Genuinely love that Time Extension leads with Gex, rather than COD or Dead Space, when recounting Schofield’s gameography. It’s important that a media outlet knows itself and its audience, and few do that better than TE.

Ah man, I need to rewatch The Piano. Grateful to my favourite film lecturer for introducing us to that.

For PC Gamer, I wrote about Remedy’s forgotten FPS campaigns: “It's a lot like being in Max Payne's nightmares—if Max was busy reciting the subtext out loud.” www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/cr...

Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strike—and the last one was made by RemedyBut you might struggle to stay A Wake for it.www.pcgamer.com