I loved most things loud when I was younger: rock, punk, rave, hi-fi, cars, drums, games. The later-life payback of constant whining tinnitus kind of sucks, however!
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Projects Director | Co-founder Wish Studios | Ex-Relentless, Eidos, Argonaut, DC-UK, Edge | Co-inventor PlayLink | 8x BAFTA judge | 2x Dad
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Happy memories of playing the incredible Grand Prix Legends in the Edge office in the 90s, with the sound turned up so fkin loud that people came to complain about the screaming engine noise from the other side of the building 😎😅 youtube.com/watch?v=2nPQrh
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So, before you drive the Lotus 49 on @iracing, firstly you need to learn the language of the community and the terminology frequently used during the race.
Here's your first crash course. You're welcome :)
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Rumours of a new PS5 model with a detachable disc drive, you say? Well, at least there are some great precedents for that kind of hardware design...
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Bit late to the party (!), but I just Platinumed Ghost of Tsushima on the PS5. Save game says it took just over 145 hours. IRL? 6 months, on and off. Loved it, never grew bored of it, and now… I think I’ll miss it. Thought it was an incredible achievement by
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Minecraft Dungeons Arcade! Who knew?! This could be good - it’s basically Gauntlet, right?
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Is it just me, or do others find that when someone constructs a question as…
‘Could you please…?’
…it comes across as super passive-aggressive?
(I can only read it as, ‘Could you PLEASE…?!)
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Just reproduced a playlist of the ‘PARTY 74’ cassette on Spotify 😎
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Remembering my dad today, on the first anniversary of his death, I managed to resurrect his Akai 8-Track and listen to some of his almost 50-year-old mix tapes. The soundtrack to my childhood. Miss you, old man 💙
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Our biggest alpha yet is here. Fly around our plunderships, be on the lookout for other HYENAS and remember: GET. THE. MERCH.
Test ends Tuesday, March 7 at 9AM GMT.
Yes, you read that right: you're getting an extra day this time! 💪
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Loading… Our British Game nominees… 👇
🕹 CITIZEN SLEEPER
🕹 OLLIOLLI WORLD
🕹 ROLLERDROME
🕹 TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III
🕹 TWO POINT CAMPUS
🕹 VAMPIRE SURVIVORS
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What was your Game of the Year?🐐Let us know!
Voting is now OPEN for #EEGameOfTheYear 🎉
The only #BAFTAGamesAwards category decided by the public! Vote for your favourite...NOW!
👉ee.co.uk/baftagames👈
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Lovely interview with . I especially liked his explanation as to why the early days of game development were so magical. I think that kind of feeling is what we’re all chasing, that rare sense of making something totally new, right on the cutting edge, at speed.
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Watching 2001’s Zoolander with my son. They don’t make 12s like they used to.
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Bigger is always better.
#JoinThePack to play Greed is Good, our 80s themed plundership, on Friday, March 3 at 5PM GMT/12PM EST: playhyenas.com
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I think I’ve written on here before about the experience of finding a gold disc with ‘MOH’ scrawled on it, under a pile of sports game releases in a Jiffy bag posted to the Edge office. I stuck it in the PSone and, oh, this is a nice surprise! (Yeah, the original Medal of Honor.)
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Once upon a time, a bunch of devs sat around and thought of a new idea for a game. 20-something years later… twitter.com/GIBiz/status/1
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New State of Play announced
• This Thursday, February 23rd at 1pm PT
• 5 New PlayStation VR2 Titles
• Look at Games from 3rd Party Partners
• More than 15 Minutes of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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A rather lovely pancake day treat from today at the studio. My kids will be officially Well Jell.
(What was the rule again? Six each, apparently, according to one member of our leadership team… naming no names… you know who you are! 😉)
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Formerly Best Micro Studio, the new Best Small Studio category has been expanded to include teams of up to ten full-time staff. If you wish to nominate a studio that fits the bill, you can find out more here: developconference.com/awards #DevelopStars
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Just been reminded of the GTA-themed Coke ad from well over a decade ago. Still one of the best videogame-riffing ads ever made, I reckon. Also scores double points for using a song from the Bugsy Malone soundtrack 😎
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Here it is folks!!!! Enjoy! #Tetris
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Official Trailer — Tetris
@TaronEgerton stars in #Tetris — the game you couldn’t put down, the story you couldn’t make up.
Streaming March 31 on Apple TV+
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The meeting room biscuit jar at work has had a hammering in the last 24 hours. This bad boy was full yesterday morning!
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I’m old enough to remember staring in disbelief at Rise of the Robots on the SNES being £70 in HMV back in the day, too! (And it was a 2-out-of-5 game as well) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_t
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No, the new Zelda is not the first ever $70 Nintendo game. Unless we're talking first-party, and in that case....maybe?
Anyway...
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Samba is back!!! Summer 2023 suddenly got a lot hotter and cooler all at once 🥵🥶😎
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It’s 11 years since I joined this thing. I did it when I knew I was going to do ‘something’ under my own steam - which turned into lovely Wish Studios (RIP). The journey has been amazing, highs and lows; I’ve learned so much. Thanks to all who’ve talked & listened along the way x
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I've been looking at hundreds of CVs for various roles and - if this is any help at all - here are some thoughts on common do's and don'ts 🧵 (1/6)
- Do write a role-specific intro letter that shows interest in your employer. Generic = bin.
- Do keep that brief (150 ish words).
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#olddogproducer tip I recently shared at the office.
If you need to sketch a one-year timeline on a whiteboard, don't get bogged down counting out 12 months.
1. Mark the ends
2. Mark the middle
3. Break each half into thirds
4. Split the thirds
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Just submitted an expenses claim for five packs of Percy Pigs. Totally legit.
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Having conversations at work about the complexity of a feature versus the effort needed to explain it to players, I was reminded of this car park ticket machine I once spotted. If you need extra instructions this detailed, it might be time to rethink your fundamental design.
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Teachers being on strike (which I support) is a mini flashback to lockdown life and trying to work with kids at home needing endless IT support and cajoling into doing homework 😭
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'The killer zombie aliens are coming! Quick! Find some paper, write a note in your own blood, and Blu Tack it in that window to warn people!'
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Every time I see 'environmental storytelling' like this in games, all I can think of is Monty Python and the Holy Grail's 'Castle of Augghhhh' youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q
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Some people, 26 years ago, making it possible for you to play GoldenEye007 this weekend.
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#GDC 2023 State of the Game Industry is here:
The #gamedev community weighs in on the metaverse, unionization, player toxicity, and more.
Download the free report here.
#GDC23 #GDC2023
gdconf.com/news/gdc-2023-
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😂 I can remember PR people doing this 25 years ago when I was working on magazines. Nothing changes.
“Why the hell do THEY have the exclusive review!?”
(Finally get your own review code…)
“Ohhhhh, because it’s actually a 5 out of 10…” twitter.com/MckKirk/status
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ICYMI, it’s there’s a fresh Closed Alpha for this weekend, complete with a new map to play. I’ll be playing later on (somewhat incognito…) and can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks of our shiniest, newest magic!
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Here's an exclusive first look at our We Took Manhattan map, available to alpha PC players from January 20th (5PM GMT/12PM EST).
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Dammit! I reinstalled Game Dev Story to take a screenshot for this Tweet, and now I can’t stop playing it again 🤦♂️😂
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Just reading @keefstuart’s article on the game industry in 2023, and the ‘collapse’ of genres. It’s time to recognise the incredible prescience of Game Dev Story’s genre-mixing New Game feature, and the role it has played in shaping the future of games.
theguardian.com/games/2023/jan
Just reading ’s article on the game industry in 2023, and the ‘collapse’ of genres. It’s time to recognise the incredible prescience of Game Dev Story’s genre-mixing New Game feature, and the role it has played in shaping the future of games.
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