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God, everyone, I'm so so sorry.
I swear to god I didn't know
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So. Is Diego in Far Cry 6 meant to be a young Vaas from Far Cry 3?
Translated the Japanese Pokemon website. Grookey sounds brilliant.
In 2017, I was told the best gaming story I'd ever heard. I'm very happy to say that I'm now getting to tell it myself, as a feature and a little documentary.
This is The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo.
Written: ign.com/articles/2019/
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=SKgL8u
Incredible new footage of The Beatles' final performance. Can't believe those boys knew that, even 50 years to the day, they would be relevant:
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An Open Letter to Leadership at IGN, Ziff Davis, and J2 Global
Well, today is my last day at IGN.
I can't say where I'm headed to yet, but it feels surreal to be leaving. This has been an incredible place to work - I've never felt more able to make what I wanted to make, chase what I wanted to chase.
Hello, I'm the Editor in Chief of now!
I haven't managed to get a nice picture of me in front of an Xbox logo or anything, but here's a picture of me cradling an Xbox One in 2015 to prove my credentials.
Here's a report I've been working on for quite a while:
A debut game developer has accused arms manufacturer Kalashnikov of stealing one of its gun designs, turning it into a real-life shotgun, and then handing it to a whole different game.
ign.com/articles/stole
A man just decided to stop outside my house, hoist his leg up on the wall, open a Tupperware box of spaghetti, and began to eat. Omen? Threat?
I'm not far through, but Luigi's Mansion 3 feels like it'll be absolutely wonderful. It really is the world's best slapstick series.
I sent a very silly voice message about some topical gaming news, and he said it came across like a posh version of The Streets, perhaps called The Avenues.
So I put that theory to the test.
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My comment on the Xbox-Activision deal:
The news was urgent enough that it stopped me from going out and buying ingredients for a beef rendang. I will no longer be making beef rendang tonight.
Please respect my privacy at this difficult time.
I'm delighted to say that I'm now IGN UK's Deputy Editor, and delighted to be allowed to wear the Deputy Editor hat.
I finally found a way to turn a dumb theory into a beautiful mini-doc. Here's my video treatise on why the music written for Wii is the console's greatest legacy, somehow featuring , , and .
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Exciting Skreb update: I'm now 's global Executive Editor of News.
If you'd like less of a mouthful, I will accept 'Fact Crevasse' or 'The Watcher'.
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I'm doing jury service at the moment. People think I've dressed up because I respect the law, but I have the secret pleasure of knowing it's because I'm going to the British Kebab Awards straight from court.
We lost Goose today. 15 years with her was incredible, but will never feel like enough.
She was a beautiful barrel, picked as a puppy because her feet were massive, but she just never grew into them. She was greedy, wilful, bad on a lead, and the absolute best.
Goodbye Goose.
I just missed a train because a woman on the stairs to the platform said something to me, so I stopped, and she was saying 'you're going to miss it' and so I missed it by stopping to hear her say that.
Is that an Aesop's Fable? Feels like an Aesop's Fable.
Superb to see that three quarters of shoppers in my local Tesco were not wearing a mask today, including the security guard on the door, who was laughing about how he wasn't wearing one.
Fantastic country, fantastic people, let's all fucking die.
I have been awake for 12 minutes and had Game of Thrones spoiled by a wayward American tweet.
One day, Coronation Street is going to become a big ironic thing over there, and I'm going to fucking ruin the whole Jack Duckworth arc, mark my words.
Cannot think of anything more perfectly, beautifully Welsh than Gareth Bale scoring a free kick and the TV coverage cutting to celebrating the goal.
I can tell Skate's still incredible because I just spent 15 minutes trying to grind this one rail and came away elated.
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These 17 seconds were worth me being shit at therest of My Friend Pedro.
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I want this guy arrested
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Hahaha. I met this Kinda Funny Best Friend in Vegas and he tried to convince me he’s Joe Skrebels. Hahaha. Made up names, man.
How is it that John Boyega be wonderful and charming, even when he's crashing someone else's stage and firing T-shirts into faces?
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I'm delighted to say we're looking for someone to join the IGN News team. This is a UK or US position, ideal for someone with writing experience, and able to handle everything from day-to-day news to smart, in-depth follow-ups.
Application links in thread.
The pub under work has started serving a "pizza cone". Turns out a "pizza cone" should be called an "unholy cheese portal".
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Vaas doesn't seem to have the eyebrow scar in the original game, but Vaas actor Michael Mando has had it seemingly shaved in for his live action stints as the character.
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I was woken up at 5am by my phone buzzing to tell me I had been sent my photo booth pictures. I haven't been in a photo booth recently.
I will treasure this.
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Thankfully, my driver had an idea for how we could sort that problem out...
I'm not saying that I'm more excited for my new fridge than I was for next-gen consoles, I'm just saying that I know which one meant I couldn't sleep the night before it arrived
My grandma is so pleased because she bought my sister and cousins a nice scarf, then saw a picture in the newspaper of a woman wearing the same one. She's even ripped it out and brought it to show them all!
It's a picture of a woman fleeing the recent London Bridge terror attack
I'm not entirely happy with how small the fridge is in our new house, but it does make me look absolutely enormous, and I'll take wins where I can get them.
I empathise with this glitching NPC more than most film characters
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Just got sent some abuse, but the person who did it had done so at 8am their time. Imagine that life.
I bet no one's tried drinking that juice that you do a lateral flow test with. What would happen if we found out it was delicious? I think we'd be in big trouble.
Some cool news on The Lie That Built Nintendo:
- We placed 3rd in the Documentary Short category at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
- It was an honoree for Best Writing at the Webby Awards!
So excited to be part of IGN's move into documentary making.
The Prestige is on Netflix now, which means it's as good a time as any to tell you that and I have been working on the world's most prominent Prestige meme account for a few months. Please do follow if you love the latest Prestige memes.
instagram.com/spicy_prestige
Five years at today.
I've grown a lot in that time - and learned even more - but I hope the images below show that I've never lost a certain sinister joie de vivre.
2016 2021
I'm really very proud of this one.
For the fifth anniversary of Sea of Thieves, I visited Rare to interview the team about the game's development story, from the very beginning.
(Spoiler: it started as a game idea about secret agents):
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Everyone saying I should have teabagged: I'm better than that, and so are you
The man was a fucking BEATLE
Myself and are working on a piece about what needs to change in the gaming industry to prevent abuse. If you'd like to DM me on that topic, please do.
To be very clear, we're not asking you to tell your stories if you don't want to. This is about what we can do now.
I think one of my favourite bits of The Matrix is where Morpheus is trying to be stealthy while robot monsters scour for his sewer jalopy, so he puts on a little hat for absolutely no reason
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In a life event I never expected, my dad is currently taking part in an amateur dramatics Zoom call, doing a table read of an episode of Community. He is playing the Dean.
I just heard "Look out, drive by Deaning" screeching out of the spare bedroom.
Things I have been unable to show you in Animal Crossing until now (no spoilers)
First, it allowed me to accidentally cosplay as a past version of myself:
Noted coward didn't have a Q&A section in his SDCC panel, robbing me of the opportunity to publicly prove I am a real person. COINCIDENCE???
I'm a very lucky boy, and got to play Hi-Fi Rush a little early. It's a pretty wild thing - I didn't go in expecting to be beating up a giant robot to the beat of a Nine Inch Nails track.
Here's a hands-on detailing what's in store:
Genuinely heartening to me that, while half of my timeline is seemingly fine with TV and movie spoilers on the day of release, I haven't seen anyone dare to say a Wordle answer yet.
When I took my current role, my big pitch was to build a team that could consistently tell unheard, important stories, ones IGN might not have been able to get to previously. This feels like a good marker for us.
So proud of this team.
Very proud of where I work. Please consider donating. twitter.com/IGN/status/139
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Perhaps not the *worst* but certainly the most bizarre was finding out I'd taken, folded, and put up for sale the trousers of a customer in John Lewis' menswear department while they tried something on. They still had his wallet in the pocket.
He also turned out to be a Lord.
Oh shit, I just realised I've been at for four years this week.
What a lovely time it's been - made some of the best work of my career, made some extremely good friends, and became a Hungarian comedy character for a bit.
Here's to hundreds and hundreds more years of life.
I think about this so regularly, and it never stops freaking my nut right out.
Apparently this is a rule taught to people learning English as a second language, and it's baffling. I get that.
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I reviewed Link's Awakening, which is a beautiful little time machine.
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Started swimming for fitness recently, and bought underwater headphones to alleviate the boredom.
But, honestly, the best thing about them is the look of silent panic in other people's eyes just before you get in the pool wearing them.
I'm so happy we got to do this - we had a Dishonored developer play Wolfenstein, and a Wolfenstein developer play Dishonored, and they had a fascinating chat while they played each other's games.
Thanks and !
youtube.com/watch?v=D6VWIN
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If I had to sum it all up in a picture, it would be this. I got to do this for work. Magic.
In 2014, my PSN was hacked. Five years later, it led to me becoming the star of the most boring Kafka novel never written. This is my stupid story.
ign.com/articles/2019/
I love that we got to help tell this story, about how Control's Executive Producer was the only person in the world with a bug that stopped him getting Control's Platinum Trophy.
Thanks for speaking to me, !
Lovely work boys got me a banger of A birthday present, complete with a SECRET ORB DRAWER
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I can't believe it's taken me 13 years to realise that Ratatouille is a mech film
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I am further than I've ever been in Dark Souls because I'm playing it in co-op with , who's acting as my combined narrator and bodyguard. It's fucking brilliant playing this way, and I just wouldn't have the patience to do it 'properly'.
Little bit of lovely Bale drama that passed me by yesterday:
Bale screamed "suck that" into the camera after scoring the free kick and kissed the badge, after Marca depicted him as a parasite sucking the blood from Real Madrid.
Absolutely delicious.
The old team got back together for one last Overwatch, before we have to arbitrarily decide which of us is kicked out of the group forever because esports said it was better as 5v5.
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Finished another rewatch of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It remains, quite genuinely, one of the best TV series I've ever seen.
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Bought a little clamp for phone-webcam purposes - but I had never considered its true worth until now
This Gamescom has lacked apocalyptically big titles, but it means so much of my favourite stuff has felt unexpected, unusual, and experimental. Going to thread some choice picks for you to peek at.
I've been incredibly lucky to work with these boys, and I'm desperately sad I won't get to see them every day anymore, but they're going to do amazing things. #finchywillreturn
Man just asked me on the street if I knew of a nearby toilet he could use.
I pointed to a pub.
He sprinted away shouting “see you in a bit!”
Now on absolute tenterhooks in my bedroom. Locked the window.
The first time we met, well before he joined the company, Cardy gave me a Werther's Original in a taxi, producing the bag out of nowhere. I knew, right then, that he was a genius.
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Today marks 3 years since I started working at @IGN.
Very happy to report that it's still as great a job as I always dreamed it would be.
My last Google search:
fifa 23 what button combo celebration that sends player into twitching eldritch frenzy and causes match to restart but everyone's just quiet and dejected and won't play football anymore
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