Lewis Packwood

This is not the King Rollo you remember.

This morning I dreamed that Rosewater had sold 948 copies and I was ecstatic. Then I woke up and thought “aw,man.”

Help make my dream a reality!

I will add that journalism is probably about half emails, too!

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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Ay carumba

Big day for Matthew today.

I wish all Pokémon enjoyers a happy FireRed and LeafGreen.

I live in York, so I guess me and this made-up guy constitute the thriving media hub. (Andy can join the hub as well if he ever gives up the well-paid joy of working for Devolver and plunges back into the poisoned lake of games journalism.)

A mighty video. And I'm particularly fond of Richard Dawson's selection of oddball hats.

I played a demo of Pieced Together at WASD a couple of years back and absolutely loved it. Although at the time I seem to remember the devs telling me they were looking for funding, and weren't sure about their next steps.

So glad to see they found a way through to launch, congratulations!

Oooh, this looks fun.

My fancy new GamesIndustry.biz business cards arrived. Coming to an event near you, soon.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

This is such a shocking story. Unbelievable.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.

On Bluepoint

newsletter.hitpoints.co/361-pointless/

Krang-gar

It landed with me :)

Rebecca Attard-Phillips gave a presentation on practical communications advice for indies at the recent Game Republic Trends and Opportunities event, and she has kindly written it up for GamesIndustry.biz.

If you're an indie developer, please read and share - this advice is GOLD.

Yes, that's a good one! Great game.

Looking forward to this one :)

Mad Max remains one of the most underrated games out there.

I chatted with the Black Mesa devs about their new game, Rogue Point. My favourite bit from that interview was that the game features a planning stage where players can freely draw over a map of the area, and they reckoned the "time to penis" was "about three seconds".

'Potholesville' - the road that can't be fixed YouTube video by The Value of Nothing

My latest, on a town's escalating fight to fix a broken road, in which become accidentally radicalised by Nick Offerman.

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@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk might be able to help out with this…

Man, the gasps that I let out when watching that final. Such drama! Feel bad for Ilia, but happy for Kazakhstan :)

A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st

Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️

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Finally, a car mechanic sim where your mates do all the work Jonty and Brendy "team up" in Car Service Together

One of our writers has worked as a car mechanic IRL. The other... has not. Here's how they got on in a co-op car mechanic sim.

www.jank.cool/its-a-car-me...

This is the kind of content I’m here for.

The Little Book of Matcha by Kitty Greenbrown | Waterstones Buy The Little Book of Matcha by Kitty Greenbrown from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

My lovely wife’s new book is out on 10th September - get your preorders in now!

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Our cat Totoro has taken to sitting on the armchair like this. The ultimate lounge cat.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

Real-life TR-49

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First time making some hot cross buns. I’m considering this a practice run for Easter. 🐣