Ed Smith

@esmithwriter

News writer and videogame critic.

Joined January 2022

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This episode degenerates into me chronologically listing and rating every single James Bond game since 1997.

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New on Patreon: @esmithwriter and @reidmccarter are deep undercover in an episode about GoldenEye 007. Go listen! patreon.com/posts/78602250

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who coming over for valentines?

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74-year-old Neil Warnock comes out of retirement to take charge of Huddersfield until end of the season. Warnock managed Huddersfield between 1993-95 leading them to the second-tier via the playoffs. Here's a HT team talk from back then with Huddersfield trailing at Shrewsbury.👀

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New on Patreon:

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are deep undercover in an episode about GoldenEye 007. Go listen! patreon.com/posts/78602250

Reid doesn't say a single word. This is my 80-minute John Galt style diatribe about why the best Goldeneye level is Silo.

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Feb 13

New on Patreon: @esmithwriter and @reidmccarter are deep undercover in an episode about GoldenEye 007. Go listen! patreon.com/posts/78602250

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My review of Dead Space.

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Going mad with the sliders on WWF Smackdown.

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Feb 11

I wrote this.

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Feb 11

Half-Life 1 has a better script than Half-Life 2, for one very simple reason. pcgamesn.com/half-life-2/go

New from me! Wrote about Dead Space and remakes and memory and how Signalis does very interesting things with memory and the Dead Space remake... dont

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Feb 10

It's time for a new issue and an old/"new" game. @youmeyou kicks off a month of articles about Dead Space (2023) by talking about remakes, Signalis, and revisiting the past: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023/02/09/too

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It's time for a new issue and an old/"new" game.

@youmeyou

kicks off a month of articles about Dead Space (2023) by talking about remakes, Signalis, and revisiting the past: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023/02/09/too

there are only a few days left on the

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bundle we put together at

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to raise money for LGBT+ charities. please check it out and let people know! itch.io/b/1714/supercu

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Metal Gear : Outer Heaven

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Remember #MetalGearSolid #TuesdayMotivaton

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For me Perfect Dark, but it's The Sims by a mile.

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Feb 6

Best game in the year 2000?

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Me in my late 30s finishing the last of the Christmas Lynx Africa gift sets I got in my teens.

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Our book about the entire Metal Gear Solid series, tons of Funland issues and a big collection of Heterotopias, with all profits going to LGBTQ+ charities. Available now.

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Together with our @SupercultureNet pals, we put together the Better Magic Bundle, which includes Okay, Hero, @FunlandMag #1, and @HeterotopiasZn #1-9, with all profits going to LGBTQ+ charities in Canada, the US, and UK: itch.io/b/1714/supercu

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ALL of Heterotopias and other top tier games crit from

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for $15 and ALL the proceeds go to LGBTQ+ charities. Ethical Magic. 🏳️‍⚧️ itch.io/b/1714/supercu

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pals, we put together the Better Magic Bundle, which includes Okay, Hero,

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When I was a child this was the funniest thing on earth.

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Vic and Bob

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Michael Winner Muscle Puppet

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i wrote about GoldenEye 007's strange, in-between place in shooter, videogame, and cultural history for

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GoldenEye 007 marked a massive change in the course of game design

Developer Rare’s iconic James Bond shooter for N64, which has recvently been re-released for Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch, marked a time of great change for first-person shooters.

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This is like all western AAA titles now. Turn literally every aspect of the game into a grind/skill tree to exploit brain chemistry instead of actually building a rewarding experience

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"For 15 years you were a corrupt police officer, willing to overlook any injustice to get richer. I want to play a game. In the centre of the room is a PlayStation console preloaded with Far Cry 5. If you want to keep your life, you must earn the Platinum trophy."

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The first official assignment I was ever given was a hands-on preview of Darksiders 2, about three months before THQ went into liquidation. Most depressing shit imaginable. Went down from there.