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Creative Partnerships at Cook & Becker. Formerly videogames and media at Rolling Stone, Ziff Davis, Future and Fandom. Occasional artist.

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The Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works book is finally back in stock at @readonlymemory.com

Not a sponsored link or anything, just a shout-out to one of my absolute favourite gaming books. One Iโ€™d highly recommend to anyone.

readonlymemory.com/products/seg...

28.02.2026 09:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

27.02.2026 05:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 3804 ๐Ÿ” 783 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40 ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. Itโ€™s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

27.02.2026 16:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 4658 ๐Ÿ” 1796 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 252 ๐Ÿ“Œ 83

This is just absurdly good, one of the coolest things we've ever made

26.02.2026 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

26.02.2026 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2163 ๐Ÿ” 887 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.
There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.
Elon Musk โ€ข @elonmusk. 26m
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
This will so insanely cool
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Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk โ€ข @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM โ€ข 2/9/26 โ€ข 543K Views

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsibleโ€”directly or indirectlyโ€”for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

10.02.2026 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 3114 ๐Ÿ” 436 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115 ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

Great vibe. Love that. Definitely takes me back to the 80s and 90s era where the game manual felt like an exciting artifact from the worlds within.

06.02.2026 16:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cover illustration I did for Video Game Maps: NES and Famicom (@retrogamebooks.com) several years ago. I decided to stay away from using known characters, instead focusing on the feeling of old adventure and RPG games.

06.02.2026 13:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 68 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Chris nailed it with this part at the end. Games really are just gambling sims and toys to most people. Games as art is a nice concept, but the industry will always see games as a product. Horses threatened the money in a very prudish moment, and it had to suffer for it.

05.12.2025 14:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 197 ๐Ÿ” 63 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Draw Steel: Crack the Sun Launch Party Get excited about Draw Steel: Crack the Sun on BackerKit - come join!

Join the Crack the Sun launch party and get notified as soon as the next Draw Steel Backerkit campaign goes live. Coming soon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

01.12.2025 21:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 83 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA
NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

11.11.2025 00:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 9388 ๐Ÿ” 3642 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38 ๐Ÿ“Œ 56
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What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean:

aftermath.site/splash-damage-...

26.11.2025 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 982 ๐Ÿ” 214 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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We're thrilled to unveil The Doll, an exclusive, officially licensed BLOODBORNE artwork made by artist 'Saprophial'.

This artwork is available as a limited-edition screen print in both large and small size editions.

www.cookandbecker.com/en/artwork/3...

#Bloodborne #fromsoftware

18.11.2025 18:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Mayhem at the Mothership! Check out this super cute, official ASTRO BOT art print by the talented
@requinoesis.bsky.social !

Exclusively available as a limited-edition print via Cook and Becker:

www.cookandbecker.com/en/artwork/3...

29.10.2025 19:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 108 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What a banger

07.11.2025 16:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1647 ๐Ÿ” 487 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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12/5ใพใงKICKSTARTERๅฎŸๆ–ฝไธญใงใ™๏ผˆ็›ฎๆจ™้กใฏ1ๆ™‚้–“ใง้”ๆˆๆธˆใฟ๏ผ‰๏ผ
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APWOTใฏใ‚ฒใƒผใƒ ใ‚’่Šธ่ก“ใจๆ‰ใˆใ€ใ‚คใƒณใ‚ฟใƒ“ใƒฅใƒผใ‚„่ซ–่€ƒใ‚’็พŽใ—ใ„ใƒ“ใ‚ธใƒฅใ‚ขใƒซใจ่ชŒ้ขใง็ดนไป‹ใ™ใ‚‹้›‘่ชŒใงใ™ใ€‚Forbesใฎ่จ˜ไบ‹ใซใชใฃใŸใ“ใจใ‚‚ใ‚ใ‚Šใ€ๆฅๅนดๅ‰ตๅˆŠ10ๅนดใ€5ๅทใพใง็™บๅˆŠใ•ใ‚Œใฆใ„ใพใ™ใ€‚
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06.11.2025 08:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

05.11.2025 18:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2547 ๐Ÿ” 2620 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45 ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
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Damn, if only 'hard men of Gondor' with their hollowed out, atrophying state, obsessed with the glories of the past and which was only saved from defeat by the actions of those it claimed to protect, could teach us anything...

29.10.2025 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 452 ๐Ÿ” 74 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

18.10.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 15554 ๐Ÿ” 4484 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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OK so this is officially out. This pic was sent to me by a bestie who got his copy. I wrote the majority of this w the help of two homies (I know what I know and Sailor Moon ainโ€™t it, so I recruited help). I took every single screenshot in the book and itโ€™s packed with interviews.
amzn.to/4nRInkT

14.10.2025 21:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
An illustration depicting the Sega game Space Harrier featuring three large flower-like spacecraft towering over a man in a red jumpsuit with a gun in an alien landscape.

An illustration depicting the Sega game Space Harrier featuring three large flower-like spacecraft towering over a man in a red jumpsuit with a gun in an alien landscape.

Segaโ€™s epic Space Harrier coin-op is 40 years old! I remember being utterly transported by it whenever I encountered it in arcades. Hereโ€™s a piece in pen and ink - scanned in and colored in Photoshop - I made during Covid. I tried to capture that otherworldly feeling it gave me (for 20p!).

17.10.2025 07:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To celebrate #FinalFantasy Tactics โ€“ The Ivalice Chronicles, different Square Enix departments shared new artwork!๐ŸŽจ In order: Original artist Akihiko Yoshida, the #FF14 team, #Harvestella artist Yasushi Hasegawa, and #FF16's Kazuya Takahashi.

Our Review ICYMI: www.rpgfan.com/review/final...

01.10.2025 16:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

19.09.2025 10:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 775 ๐Ÿ” 372 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Detail of the heroes in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. One hero is a human man with blonde hair and shining armour, blue magic blasts from one hand, while the other hand holds a glowing mace. The other hero s a female elf with a flowing cape and a sword made for swashbuckling.

Detail of the heroes in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. One hero is a human man with blonde hair and shining armour, blue magic blasts from one hand, while the other hand holds a glowing mace. The other hero s a female elf with a flowing cape and a sword made for swashbuckling.

Detail of the horde of goblins in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. They bear arms and are rushing towards the heroes from all sides.

Detail of the horde of goblins in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. They bear arms and are rushing towards the heroes from all sides.

Detail of the villager tied up and watching on helplessly in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover.

Detail of the villager tied up and watching on helplessly in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover.

I wanted to thank you all for the overwhelming positive response to my cover art for The Delian Tomb! Your kind words left me speechless number of times!

Here are some details of the painting ๐Ÿ˜‰

#mcdm #drawsteel #thedeliantomb
#heroes #goblins #blacksmith #fantasyart #ttrpg #fantasypainting

10.08.2025 15:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 211 ๐Ÿ” 34 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

05.08.2025 02:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 3438 ๐Ÿ” 1832 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 220 ๐Ÿ“Œ 146

No, Google, I do not want to summarize this file you absolute horror of a company. You can get in the fucking sea with that Gemini nonsense.

01.08.2025 14:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huge congrats to our friends at MCDM for the launch! Itโ€™s been an amazing journey. Weโ€™re printing the Limited Edition books as we speak - and the stunning box set Ajax Edition of Draw Steel is close behind and looking really gooooood :)

31.07.2025 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How I feel in every games media convo these days ๐Ÿ˜…

29.07.2025 17:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 231 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Pretty sure that's an errant bit of moustache rather than a nose hair, but who can really say. I adore this podcast, have been thinking about what I'd pick if I was invited on since the day it launched. Whittling 40-odd years of games down to just five was, nonetheless, absolute agony. Go!

29.07.2025 08:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0