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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).💙

Ahhhhh, this is amazing!

At least 24 girls reported killed in strike on school in southern Iran Dozens of children aged between seven and 12 hit in attack on Minab city

Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible actress) @rebeccaferguson.com This is actress Rebecca Ferguson, the real one and not a scam. Accept my private message request. why on earth would you message me if you were real I need you to watch my movies. the scam is just messaging individual people to watch rebecca ferguson movies? I have been a fan of yours ever since I read a post about how you sneezed so hard the yellow acorn flew off your penis shaft. In Dune 2 I played the powerful mother of a thin desert boy.

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice."
"Real media access is still only on Twitter."
"No one important uses or will ever use this site."

Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

Amazing studio. Demon’s Souls was THE game that showed the PS5 off in all its glory on launch.
These big publishers really don’t fucking know what players actually want. Brain dead corporate greed strikes again.
Cunts.

Can’t wait to play it when it releases! It sounds like a good time 😊

Just finished Between Two Fires, which was brilliant. Think Dark Souls with the plague running rampant.
Now I’m reading Tyll by Daniel Kehlman, which is a reimagining of a German fable and questions the blurred lines of magic and heresy. Very good, so far.

I'm not kidding when I say this should be illegal, even if it weren't also a transparent scam on this idiot's part.

Rewatched Frontier(s) last night, and now in the mood for more French extreme horror.
Anyone got any favourites to highlight?

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and then i spat out beer www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Devastating news. Such a legend.

That would make a perfect name for a punk band

Been sat in A&E all day with suspected appendicitis. Thankfully it’s all clear. God bless the NHS, always so helpful and caring. Made me feel comfortable as soon as they clocked my PTSD diagnosis on my notes ❤️

Want to be very clear to anyone even remotely thinking about coming to events like GDC: Don't. It's not safe to be in the US, nobody's hiring or financing anyway, and it's not worth your life.

That does look dope!

I would definitely love to play it and write about it. Don’t have any commissions for it, but would be putting it around a few editors.

I didn’t mind the first, but this is leagues ahead. So damn gorgeous and gnarly.

Jeeez, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was superb. Beautifully shot, oddly subtle for such a grisly film, and the overarching story is one more focused on hope than grief.
Loved it.
Howzat?

Perfect. No notes.

Ooooh damn. They look awesome!

Introduce yourself with 4 indie games

screenshot of actors on a green screen with a wildly wrong lighting setup to match their cartoon background

screenshot of actors on a green screen with a wildly wrong lighting setup to match their cartoon background

screenshot of an actor on a green screen with a wildly wrong lighting setup to match his cartoon background

screenshot of actors on a green screen with a wildly wrong lighting setup to match their cartoon background

Stranger Things Season 5 "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up". Directed by The Duffer Brothers

Decided to lay out my top ten GotY list here…
10. Dune Awakening.
Superb survival experience with a great atmosphere. Spoiled by a wonky endgame, but the journey was stellar.

Has it finally come to Crunchyroll?!

I hope you enjoy them!

Oooh, which ones?

1. Promise Mascot Agency.
An easy 10/10 for me, it has charm, heart, goofy humour, and a swearing severed pinky finger who will forever be my favourite gaming companion. A delight from all angles, and a game that also nails humour perfectly. Can’t wait to replay this every year!

2. Blue Prince.
By the end, I had around 12 A4 pages of notes, I was so invested in this mystery. Of course the gameplay mechanics sing, but it’s that ongoing suspense, with drip-fed clues that kept me coming back. I’ve recommended this game to everyone I know, even those who don’t play games.

3. Dispatch.
What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Perhaps this, it’s very hard to do comedy well in games, but this was perfection. Teamed with plenty of emotion and terrific acting, everyone should play Dispatch, even if you have superhero fatigue.