Befuddled please-help-with-article-research post #231231: I'm looking for examples and discussion of "postcolonial open worlds" (inc discussion of the validity of that term), together with formally unusual writing about open worlds.
I've spent the entire morning trying to resist the urge to post something declaring that Newey accidentally building the fastest and most dangerously effective vibrator in the world is the right way for his illustrious career to peak. Other designers could never
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).💙
Congrats Will!
Already feels strange cut off from work. I don't like it. Please get in touch if you have any opportunities.
Sadly my role as Video Producer on Eurogamer's YouTube channel has been made redundant. After 7 years it's a heart-breaking goodbye, but I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be continuing to create the deepest of dives into videogame lore on my own YouTube channel! 🔍
YouTube.com/ZoeDels
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!
🔴LIVE FROM 6:30PM GMT🔴 I may have been made redundant but I won't let that ruin a good Friday chaos stream! Join me for a look at the Marathon Server Slam, followed by REPO from 8pm and @PUBG customs from 9:30! Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/lFGivJj... or on twitch.tv/platform32
Alex is also great, an endless font of in-depth game knowledge and journalistic wisdom
Thanks for always being a steady and considerate presence and for letting me defile yours and Jim's brilliant podcast with my shite jokes, it's been an absolute honour if a cruelly brief one
Without both Tom and Dom not just deciding I was worth taking a chance on at VG back in 2023, but providing all the support anyone could ask for as I worked to grow and repay their faith, I genuinely don't know where I'd be.
RIP, the dwarf series and books have made me smile in tough times more often than I can count
Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site
If like one or two more people had left, they'd have had to panic and pretend they'd appointed Master Chief's shapely buttocks while they hunted for an heir like the desperate court of a siblingless child king who's dying of the plague
ah, you've gone for the 'a bullet from afar or car salesperson mannerisms up close' build I usually get sucked into. Worth temporarily trying a switch to emp based melee if you can, building that skill up will prob also help/be necessary when you come to start dead money if you've not yet
I've usually found that using emp weapons and running once outside offers just enough of an edge if my guy's not been hardened to the terminator by hours of Dead Money/other DLC cock and ball torture, I take it it's getting overwhelmed indoors that's the problem?
Ok folks, what are we all up to today? Oh yeah, we've got to figure out how to deal with DoCtOr MoBiUs
I swear that's how transactions work in the real world sometimes
POV you are about to lose at Guess Who
sorry
First review of the year from me, and one that took a lot to unpack
I'm not saying Dagoth Ur's loincloth in full bore unreal engine ray traced 4090 4K could solve all the world's problems, but also maybe it would
Which is why I found it so bewildering Oblivion got the official remaster/remake treatment. Use those resources on the great 00s TES game that could properly benefit from a bit of modern refitting to make it more accessible to newbies and Skyrim babies like me
Same, the story and world building are 10/10, the creakier practical aspects of playing the thing which games have since evolved away from are the reason I'm still yet to do more than one playthrough
FNAF-style The Florist of Sai spin-off where the entire game's just staring at camera footage of kamurocho to try and find kiryu before he infiltrates your underground gambling place/dressing gown lair and asks you difficult questions
Date focused grimy detective spin-off instead of pirate hawaii spin-off, this change fundamentally weakens our reality to the point at which residents of the backwards universe can invade and kcatta su morf lla selgna tsuj ekil amijaM
congrats chris!
