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The Friday Late for March at the V&A Museum includes performances from the London Livecoding community! I’ll be there doing a half hour visual set with Magpie. Also includes Slaystation, Car Boot Casino and lots of games. Free tickets here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
Ziff Davis are fucking vandals. The way they've treated these sites is a truly rotten business.
🚨 ALERT. ALERT. BIG WALK IS COMING TO PS+ THIS YEAR www.youtube.com/live/bGdFBim...
A strong showing from Konami on today's State of Play! 👀
⚬ Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse
⚬ Darwin’s Paradox
⚬ Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2
⚬ Rev. Noir
⚬ Silent Hill: Townfall
There's still more show to see: play.st/YouTube
A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
A Budgerigar painted onto a James Hunt Malboro World Championship Team beer mat from the 1970s. Beermat painting. Watercolour.
James Hunt loved Budgies apparently.
darrenhaymanart.com
Today I noticed the bongos in #Bananza.
They didn't have to put the bongos in.
Or give them a little start button.
Or make them bouncy!?
They didn't have to add an extra bongo track in the audio that comes in when you're near.
But they did.
I’ll be watching remotely this year from my sofa with some beer and space chews, because frankly fuck going to the US right now. But tune in later if you can, and stick around for when the GTPs start catching the slower traffic. Multiclass endurance racing is pretty much as good as it gets.
The winning Porsche 963, carrying all the filth from the Daytona 24
I don’t know of any other major international race where you can get this close to the winning car minutes after it’s completed its journey
GT3 Merc carrying battle scars after the D24
Last time I went was a couple of years ago when they were filming scenes for the film - the most amazing thing about going to Daytona is the access you get, where you can walk right up to the garages and watch all the really special stuff happen
And ofc if the intro to the F1 movie took your fancy, this is a chance to see wrinkly old racers outbraking each other into the Le Mans chicane at just before midnight as the fireworks bloom
An Aston Martin GT3 chases down a Corvette into the sunset at Daytona
If you’ve got into motorsport through F1 and are curious about the world of sportscar racing there’s no better intro, and over time I’ve come to realise it’s every bit as magical as Le Mans in its own way
It’s race day! In just over two hours at around 6.45pm GMT the season properly kicks off with what’s always a highlight of the season, the Daytona 24. And it’s all streamed live for free (in the UK at least) www.youtube.com/live/uGOgs9b...
This is getting published a little later than intended but it's here now: a short, sharp write-up on the political resonance of FFT: The Ivalice Chronicles in the year of No Kings protests — one turn-based battle after another ✊
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
The best morning
January 01, 2026
#NeoGeo #PocketHoroscope
Wasting my one new years wish on the hope that 2026’s Ferrari won’t be a complete shitbox 🙏🙏🙏🍝🍝🍝🍝🙏🙏🙏
Ridge Racer.....iiiiiiiitttt's RIIIIIIIIIIDGE RRRAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCER
Macros 2 hori shmup
Outfoxies - a woman machine guns a guy in a murder wheelchair on top of a blue whale. Yeah, you read that right
Action puzzle game VS Tower of Babel AKA VS Mystery Tower
The most important releases of 2025
1. Ridge Racer
2. Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS II
3. The Outfoxies
4. VS Tower of Babel
5. Mach Breakers
6. Dead Connection
7. Marchen Maze
8. Nebulas Ray
9. Gee Bee
10. Castle of Dragon
1/12⬇️
A pair of sailors walk the streets of Yokosuka
And yes, I did find some. Fucking bingo.
A collection of shipping containers and warehouses in a Japanese dockyard
A staff house in a Japanese dockyard
A Toyota forklift truck in Yokosuka dockyard
I ventured out to the docks this time and wasn’t prepared for the amount of emotional damage these warehouses laid on me
A vintage jacket stall on Dobuita St, which will be familiar to Shenmue players
A suburban road in Yokosuka, which has similarities to the road players travel to Dobuita by in Shenmue
An American bar in Yokosuka called Tom & Jack, with a Stars and Stripes signage
A convenience store in Yokosuka which was used for loose inspiration for Shenmue’s own convenience store
I last went in 2009 on my first trip to Japan (it was my first destination because I’m that tragic about Shenmue) and it was ace to walk the streets again now I’m not so spun out by it all
Dobuita St in Yokosuka, a pedestrianised street dense with shops
Happy 26th to Shenmue, a video game that goes out of its way to celebrate the mundane and remains one of the most preposterous AAA productions. Popped by Yokosuka again earlier this year on a spare day in Japan and it only solidified what special magic SEGA and AM2 conjured
i miss having someone sub my shit writing, but also hugs and kisses to you sir
Ugh, I’m away from my rig until the new year and am missing it dearly. Also loved the fever dream of getting Salamander 3 and Metroid Prime 4, the best 7/10 of the year. And plenty more besides - through all the shit games have delivered. Thank you games!
Le Mans Ultimate - a threadbare 1.0 release blossomed into what, for me and for now at least, is the go-to place for the very best authentic online racing. Looks, sounds and handles like a dream, works a treat in VR and replicates the greatest racing series in the world in all its brilliance.
Time Flies - thoughtful, funny, can be played through in an evening with a partner for a wholly satisfying experience. The dream!
