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Matthew Castle

@mrbasilpesto

Magazine killer, podcast maker. Co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.

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Play a sexy God of War minigame on the TV.

06.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No Pepsi, no poetry.

05.03.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That dude who consumed three Pepsis in a row? Turns out he was having poetic thoughts about stealth assassinations at the same time.

05.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My favourite thing about reading a batch of writing from the same preview event is that you realise all the people quietly clacking away in the room with you were having all these big internal reactions and parsing things in different ways. It's like hearing their internal monologues after the fact.

05.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone mentioned here deserves better, but shout out to video editor Alix who was the 'invisible' team member of the RPS Video gang. Edited our first six months of the channel, took my rambling notes and turned them into some early wins. Was an exciting, fulfilling time. Hope someone snaps him up.

04.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

God, Mario Tennis is boring, though.

03.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a big fan of the book, and there's a whole universe of connected novels about the extended assassins network on different missions. Quite a fun series to work through.

03.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Minishoot' Adventures on Switch 2. One of the ten best games of 2024!

03.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Nice! Seeing the touring version of this next week.

03.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It was said (slightly) in jest. Gotta fill Games Court with something. (And I've never seen you lording it over people.)

03.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's important that a whole new generation get to learn how shite these films are.

02.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did one of those AI checks and it came out as 94% likely AI generated. Pure junk.

02.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Played, and very much enjoyed, Dusk Index Gion over the last week. Slightly bummed out that the top ranking (maybe only) review for it is full of bogus stuff by someone who clearly hasn't played it. AI or just shit? That we have to ask these questions is a theme of the game, so it's quietly apt.

02.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

On my to do list.

01.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching BBC's 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and it's so differently paced to TV today. Writing you can luxuriate in, delivered by all these craggy character actors who turn up and deliver a killer monologue or two (it's mostly a series of accounts and interrogations). Just superb TV.

01.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The new elusive target in Hitman is a surprising riff on another of the week's big releases. Love how much effort goes into these things, even if I did panic (you will too!) and absolutely biff it.

01.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I still enjoyed the end of the Pierpoint era so liked S3 personally. But there's too much Lord Muck stuff in 4.

27.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New White Lotus cast is wild.

27.02.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Growing pains: Industry has shown that bigger isn’t always better The fourth season of TV’s once underrated drama has maxed out on everything – sex, nastiness, nihilism – and it’s been a major miscalculation

This is absolutely spot on about the latest season of Industry - particularly the bit about inverting the original bottom up perspective by stacking the cast with toffs. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

27.02.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resident Evil Requiem review - there’s plenty of life in the undead yet Fear, fights and feverish fanservice collide in this celebration of Resident Evil’s recent and retro legacy

Love this from Nic: "Even at its dourest and most pensive, this is less a song for the dead, more a knees-up in honour of the rocket launchers and typewriters that came before." www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

26.02.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ziff Davis are fucking vandals. The way they've treated these sites is a truly rotten business.

26.02.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

25.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoying the demo of this. Nice knotty case and has that extra dramatic charge that you're hunting down Nazi scum.

24.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Honestly quite impressive that Sarah Bond conceived and implemented a strategy entirely on her own at one of the world's biggest tech companies even though everyone apparently hated it

23.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The Charli xcx tracks from Wuthering Heights would make some banging Tetris Effect stages.

23.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have to be dragged kicking and screaming into these things, but it has some solid laughs and good entries. We're now judging moral dilemmas along with pre-owned games.

20.02.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

X is its own thing. Play at any time.

19.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In an ideal world, it'd be free. But when you live in an era where *everyone* is nickel and diming us, I'm less annoyed about being nickel and dimed by a thing I genuinely enjoy and will spend a lot of time with. That's probably defeatist, but that's where I'm at.

19.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm following the wrong people. πŸ₯²

19.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yes. I've been sitting on the Switch version waiting for something like this to happen. Now do Xenoblade 2 Definitive Edition. We beg you!

19.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0