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Lewis White - FRVR

@slingles

FRVR Blog EiC - Former VideoGamer EiC before ClickOut ruined it - Ex-Gfinity/StealthOptional Editor in Chief | Retro Gamer, Eurogamer, Wireframe, PCGamesN | Former MSPoweruser Gaming Editor. Opinions are my own.

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I’ve played around six hours and I’m loving it. Bounced off Arc Raiders hard because I found it stingy, but Marathon always has an incentive to keep me going

01.03.2026 09:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please share the articles instead of screenshots so I won’t be eventually replaced by shit roboslop and I can keep writing my own slop

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18.02.2026 14:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PR veterans explain how Games Media’s silent mass layoffs are hurting game discoverability and your connection with developers UberStrategist PR veterans explain why the mass games media layoffs are a huge issue for the discoverability of new games.

“We’re being marketed to everywhere we go all the time. It used to be, you had to see a product 7 times before you were primed to buy it.[..], it’s now upwards of 15. So, I think, we need, as an industry, need to realise that we need to do a little more planning.”

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29.01.2026 22:52 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Wait until that Switch 2 port. The key request floodgates will open

11.12.2025 00:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After a whole year, I still get key requests for this game every single week. It's an undisputed banger!

10.12.2025 20:22 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There’s also the opposite problem where some who are already used to issues deem them as acceptable when they likely aren’t to most “modern” gamers.

For example, Halo: Combat Evolved’s one-shot hunters are silly and break the threat the enemy is supposed to pose, but some don’t think that’s a flaw

02.12.2025 21:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t even know how to react to this. I’m so sorry, man. There are few game writers with as much passion as him

02.12.2025 21:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just learned that @hkt3030.neocities.org has sadly passed away.

One of the best games writers in the UK. There are few writers in the business who can suck you straight into the page issue after issue. Nick was one of them.

02.12.2025 21:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Sims designer says that the series’ diversity is “critical, especially at times like now” as the games must recognise “the fundamental truths of our humanity” to stay successful The Sims designer Charles London explains why diversity is important for the series as anything but would simply be lying to players.

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03.11.2025 17:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Army of Two: The 40th Day director says the co-op game is the “gayest game ever made”, even though EA wouldn’t let him make the protagonists kiss Army of Two: The 40th Day director Alex Hutchinson calls the beloved 2010 co-op game the "gayest game ever made".

EA is a bunch of cowards frvr.com/blog/army-of...

24.10.2025 15:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another banger of an episode

24.10.2025 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The little elves that hide in your walls do filthy things to them

16.10.2025 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ClickOut will destroy everything. They got Techopedia completely deindexed for their bullshit

15.10.2025 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AFAIK it’s all google search focused SEO drivel for best gambling content etc. One of ClickOut’s managers is also all about AI. He previously spent years ruining Gfinity

15.10.2025 16:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey Dan, this was the second old boss. That was a BGFG issue when they updated the site. I complained about this back when I was there but they never cared to fix it

15.10.2025 16:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I left as soon as ClickOut acquired it. We found out management had been secretly publishing gambling articles pre-acquisition to test the waters. Fuck ClickOut and BGFG for selling it

15.10.2025 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It really hurts because I was trying to bring the site back with original reporting again. As someone who was inspired by the original crew to become a games journo, it was a huge effort

We got the site back on Discover, GNews, restated the pod. Then it was sold and stripped for parts.

15.10.2025 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So I took a deep breath and proposed myself as the artist. I sent a whole batch of pictures to everyone involved. I told them: I really want to do this.

And I’m glad to say they agreed to it!
I really hope you'll like the book.

22.09.2025 15:58 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I asked the Skate devs how much Ska is in EA’s new open-world game, and they laughed at me As a child of the 90s, Skating and Ska music go together like cheese on pizza. The infectious, almost triumphant, blast of trumpets and horns are synonymous to me with pulling off a sick grind and nai...

I asked the Skate devs how much Skate will be in the new game, and they laughed at me 😔

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28.08.2025 10:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mental behaviour. You’re a braver man than I am

28.08.2025 10:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Superman felt stretched by its ensemble focus. Fantastic Four just missed the mark on its central ensemble. I loved both films but they definitely have some rather annoying issues for me

04.08.2025 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh wow! Have you ever backed these discs up online somewhere?

29.07.2025 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Xenoblade side quests feel like the developers simply forgot massive maps need something to do in them

29.07.2025 11:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it more every time I see it. Weirdly feel good for a film about consistently terrible people blowing up an even worse person

29.07.2025 10:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can we see what’s inside the Vib Ribbon one? 👀

29.07.2025 10:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When are you doing the Alien 3 look?

23.07.2025 17:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll never forget the day I was chewed out by peers for a negative Cyberpunk preview. That day hurt

23.07.2025 17:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What game ignited your passion for gaming?

Saw a girl play this on a Pikachu-branded Game Boy Colour in the doctor's waiting room every week for a few months and just became enamoured with it. Weirdly after seeing the show and card game, this felt like actually entering that world for.

14.07.2025 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think Halo 5’s massive amount of variants do water down the sandbox immensely, but a few variants exclusively as power weapons is fantastic

12.07.2025 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Betting this dumbass doesn’t wear a single hat during at least the first two-thirds of this book. 3/5

12.07.2025 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0