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The State of the Art by Iain M Banks - BBC Sounds A spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'money'.

My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I can understand why Oliver's Army was cut out from the disc, but Pump It Up and Everyday I Write the Book? He also did a cover of She at the gig that's missing too.

Watching Elvis Costello Detour Live at the Liverpool Philharmonic blu-ray, just saw my bald spot in the audience!

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social

Great! I only recently started reading The Culture series. Read 3 so far. (The Player Of Games is my current favourite)

Slapping the AI label on any old shit has really muddied the bath water we're throwing out with the baby now. DLSS/FSR upscaling is a good example. My AI Sucks video got a few comments re "I always turn off that AI shit in the graphics settings because it looks terrible" and like, No

'A Birkenhead Triptych, Wirral' - Barry Thomas (1996)

Red bridge at Birkenhead docks.

They replaced the one of those bridges with this. Just doesn't look the same.

The real question is, can I make a valid argument for this Flanagan character to also wear a Liverpool top?

Still very eager to sell this! I'm unsure what an appropriate asking price is, I guess £1500 plus shipping? I'm open to negotiation. DM if you're interested!

Heads up, fellow Proton users

The tension of the new Resident Evil slightly broken because every time they show wriggly maggots I’m thinking:

Jaws poster changed to Laws with Bruce wearing a Dredd helmet

You’re gonna need a bigger iso cube

Thought it was a young Bob Mortimer for a second.

Bugs Bunny asleep on a green bench. He's wearing a red scarf and his hands are resting on his belly.

Had chippy tea

The Sausage That Saved Berlin 🇩🇪🌭💥 (Cold War history travel vlog) YouTube video by Paul And Sanja

Brand new video. We went in search of a sausage, and got lost in Cold War Berlin... youtu.be/O2fcZpp4t1I?...

I think it would have been more pretentious if you'd chosen James A Henry. Should have gone for it! 😀

I think it would have been more pretentious if you'd chosen James A Henry. Should have gone for it! 😀

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).💙

About time!

Excellent news! Massively excited to share that our #friendandcolleague @wsjudd.bsky.social will be returning to Digital Foundry in April!

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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Heartbroken to announce that I got hit by the layoffs at Polygon today. It was an honor to work with the amazing team there.

If you're looking for a games/entertainment writer with a deep knowledge of everything from live-service shooters to horror titles to delightfully weird FMV games, hit me up!

A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.

this photo leaves little to the imagination

Lock It In Studio co-founder Matt Cutler has passed away - PodcastingToday We’re very sorry to report that Matt Cutler, co-founder of Lock It In Studio, has sadly died following an illness.

We’re very sorry to report that Matt Cutler, co-founder of Lock It In Studio, has sadly died following an illness.
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PERSONAL NEWS: After 13 years working as a (legendary) video producer for @eurogamer.bsky.social I have been made redundant in the recent Gamer Network cuts. I loved that job so much (probably too much) and I will miss the people and the opportunities it gave me, but I'm not ready to give up yet!

Mullin: We are not wanting regime change, but the person that's leading this effort is the ayatollah. Remember in 1979, when he came to power, he was saying that he wanted to be a nuclear Iran

The Farseer Trilogy audiobooks are out now

It was a pleasure narrating these new versions of @robinhobb.bsky.social’s extraordinary series.

Thanks you @harpercollins.bsky.social & everyone at iD audio.

All 3 are available now wherever you get your audiobooks.

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