Will Sawyer

You bastard

Christ you’re right, I’ve died so many times

Literally just happened to me three times in a row. I’m using free sponsored kits, so I’m at least not losing anything but having crap gear might also be why I keep dying lol

That was quick

Wahey congrats!

I hate ticks even more now

Helldivers also does this tbf. There's a 250 cap on Medals and you can't get anything in a Warbond without buying it first

It do be like that sometimes

36 seconds...

Can’t wait for this to get totally ignored

Image of Hayao Miyazaki looking exasperated with his hands on his head and a cigarette hanging out his mouth - pure anguish personified

Just had a really good string of solo runs in Marathon - really enjoying the guns I’m using and got some good gear. I load into a match right next to my contract objective, get distracted by a tick, and then immediately killed by another runner

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).💙

Happy birthday!

Ah RIP Highguard. I’ll always remember possessing the Shieldbreaker and raiding the enemy base

Can’t believe I hadn’t thought about this. Marathopia? Pokopithon?

Marathon server slam is over and I have A LOT of thought. Overall, enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would after last April’s alpha and it looks and feels fantastic, but I still have deep issues with extraction shooters as a genre

I hate Marathon players (I'm Marathon players)

Gutted that this is how it had to end. Best of luck and I hope somewhere else accepts your jorts advocacy!

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!

I’ve been listening to the soundtrack released so fair a bit and hearing so little of it in the game is so disappointing

I hate Marathon players

Well then. After 9 years my role of Editorial Director at Eurogamer/IGNE has been made redundant. If you’re reading this and feel I have a lot of valuable experience (I do), I’m keen to explore any opportunities (full time, consulting, other) in the games industry. I am great.

First two solo Marathon matches:
1. Made friends with the first and only person I saw, extracted together - fine
2. Found a room full of poison gas, couldn’t heal in time, died in the marsh cold and alone - awful

That’s Groce

To add to this and the idea of players as shareholders, I’ve really hated seeing these “LOOK AT HOW WELL MARATHON PRE-ORDERS ARE DOING” posts that I’ve seen in the last few days. Why does this matter???

Jfc so Eurogamer’s video team has just been entirely culled then?

I hope you’re pointing and shouting “THAT’S ME” at everyone on the tube platform

To be clear I never have any idea what the discourse is about, I just like reposting this and you all need to use your phones less

Discourse, datcourse, some of you need to get your life on course

Congrats Jasmine!