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Samuel Roberts

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PR Manager in games, co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast, large man who lives in Bath. Previously: Frontier, PC Gamer, GI.biz

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What would never happen now is me caring about it either way (I was at peak superhero interest when DOFP came out, though).

06.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing goggles and headphones is holding a hamburger in his hand ALT: a man wearing goggles and headphones is holding a hamburger in his hand

Rewatched Days of Future Past. Evan Peters: unimpeachable.

06.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's your solution to everything.

06.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a nice lad over repairing my thermostat, but the longer he's here, the more I can tell it's dawning on him what a fucking weirdo I am.

06.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lies

06.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
BioShock, GTA 4, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Hitman 2016, Metal Gear Solid V, Breath of the Wild, Sekiro

BioShock, GTA 4, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Hitman 2016, Metal Gear Solid V, Breath of the Wild, Sekiro

And here's the illegal games media onwards one:

06.03.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sonic 2, Link's Awakening, Red Alert, GTA 3, Halo, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 3, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus

Sonic 2, Link's Awakening, Red Alert, GTA 3, Halo, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 3, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus

These. Pre-games media.

06.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.03.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's 100% it. I don't think I've thought about it since 2009.

06.03.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite a few normies I follow on Instagram liked those Firefly posts. Dunno how people have the energy for some of these narratives.

06.03.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone has spent too much time in a terminally online hell world and lost their minds.

06.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

PokΓ©mon LeafGreen/FireRed should let you take on the Viridian City gym straight away, so the rest of the game is about recovering from the PTSD of Giovanni annihilating your level 8 Bulbasaur.

05.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Going to hell for this:

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watched The Testament of Ann Lee. At the end of the film, a bit of text says she had 6000 followers at her peak. My podcast has about 7000 weekly listeners.

Am I a minor religious figure?

05.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a project that a pal of mine has been working on!

05.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can wheel out being confused for the Sam Roberts Band and going on Canadian national radio because of that one more time, right?

05.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably had a bit too much fun posting about Matthew playing the Hitler auction game over the past month or so (sounds like a bad hang to me).

05.03.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Bride has 55 on Metacritic - mixed or average reviews

The Bride has 55 on Metacritic - mixed or average reviews

*sickos.gif*

1 star or 4 stars. It cannot be anything else.

05.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
2026 nuclear family memeβ€” featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

2026 nuclear family memeβ€” featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

04.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 12311 πŸ” 2548 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 76

When did Todd morph into Tony Shalhoub?

04.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Eugh, regrettably I'm quite enjoying this.

04.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Managed 5 minutes of new Scrubs before reaching for my phone to make the standard, "has Zach Braff spent the past two decades in print media?" joke.

04.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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…

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).πŸ’™

04.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 451 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 15
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Review: Fallout 4 on Switch 2 is Dramatically Improved Over Its Nintendo Direct Debut But how does it compare to PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series S?

Scaling beyond PS4 with extra performance mode options, Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition delivers the goods - and we're fascinated to see how the promised DLSS upgrade could improve things still further: www.digitalfoundry.net/reviews/fall...

03.03.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Now there's a demo of it on Switch 2! Makes sense to me, they've clearly polished the shit out of it. Give it a try.

03.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"The Nintendo localisation team went through every name of the blokes who worked in a Kwik-Fit in Portsmouth circa 1997...Gary beat out Bob, Steve, Dave, Barry and Big Chris."

03.03.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It only occurred to me last night, as I started PokΓ©mon LeafGreen, that in Japan your rival probably wasn't known as 'Gary'.

03.03.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

03.03.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 350 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 11

Just had a whole evening of ARC Raiders without another human opening fire on us. The prevailing theory: all the sickos have cleared out and gone off to Marathon.

02.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Β£99.99. Genuinely might be the best thing I've ever spent money on.

02.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0