Echo Apsey

American Girls might be one of the best pop hits of the 2020s from a male artist. It's built for a live show.

Never really been a huge fan of Harry Styles' music beyond the hits. But, new album is pretty good. A vibe I can't really describe but captures the melancholic, hopeful doom of the current time well.

The embargo pretty reasonably frames this as "Hey, please don't run a review based slowly off a server stress test", but in reality the game is available for purchase now and people are looking for coverage, so expect to see mine sometime early next week on @gamerguides.com.

The funniest possible game for this to end being.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Logical next step for the studio after Metal Eden took way too long to release and didn't exactly hit. Excited for it as the first game is great.

Give it GOTY already. Ain't even kidding.

Another third party game completely skipping Xbox

Lmao what.

I have officially completed Highguard. Nice to have this on my record. Shame how the game was treated, as there was a solid foundation here to build upon. Industry is deeply unhealthy.

Sure is. Also the game I will forever remember as having a guide article go crazy because people thought there was a six hour sex scene of sorts with the twin woman robots.

Not saying it is a racket, but it amazes me this three year old, extremely mid shooter is getting another DLC.

Sums up the whole industry at the moment. Buy a studio to do one thing, then ditch the strategy a few years later. Hope they keep Nixxes around, Sony can make a lot of money off of them even if its for third party games.

Bro is crashing out 😂

Discovered that in Marathon if you have Bluetooth headphones, an external mic, and enable voice chat output to your headphones the entire game just kills any audio. Desperately needs to be fixed.

Welp, it only escalates from here. Incredible foresight from Starmer.

"This is unprecedented" I say for the 95th time in my lifetime. Welcome to a new forever war everyone.

Don't have much time for Steam Next Fest, but did play the demo for The Eternal Life of Goldman and it proper blew me away. One of the most impressive 2D platformers I have ever seen.

This is the worst thing in Marathon. Why is it one button to begin looting a container and then a different button to loot an item in the container. I am constantly dropping items when I want to loot them. Horrible UX and no idea how this wasn't solved like 5 months ago.

Worst timeline

Anyway, can't believe I am saying this but the player onboarding here might be worse than Destiny.

I sort of wish the beginner variant of Perimeter in Marathon stuck around longer. 2-3 games and you lose access to it. Feels like barely enough time to get used to everything.

The vibe is not it lmao

I also probably think it is something they haven't announced yet, but Fire Emblem is in a good position as a series to be that game.

Holiday 2026 game for Switch 2 I hear you ask?

I remind you of a Fire Emblem

Incredible stuff even for him.

Sky News entertaining Farage's tweet calling the result "cheating" instead of simply saying, "there is no evidence of cheating," which is the case.

Half of Labour's votes gone. The Long demise of the party continues.

Sky News obsessed with the idea that Greens should have parachuted in Polanski to be the MP instead of a local person. Cant stop mentioning it despite criticising other parties for doing exactly the same.

Currently watching Sky News melt at the inability to understand how voters can care about a genocide on the other side of world and problems at home.