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Digital Editorial Director at ReedPop. Here's a thing.

Londongamer.networkJoined September 2007

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The RPS team is growing! Are you an ace reporter who loves PC games? We want to hear from you! We're a very nice bunch to work with, I promise.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

@rockpapershot

Apr 7

UK GAMES MEDIA JOB ALERT!

RPS is hiring a News Editor, and applications are open now. This is a UK, home-based role, with a salary range of £28,000 - £30,000 based on experience. Full details below: rockpapershotgun.com/rps-is-hiring-

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VGC

@VGC_News

Feb 16

Ubisoft has confirmed it intends to attend the revamped E3 expo in Los Angeles this year, ‘if it happens’. videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-s

pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I’ve fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)

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This is the best Viking funeral this platform could have. The ultimate main character. Deranged and dystopian brand Tweets. The foundational systems breaking down as everyone posts through it. Magnificent.

Someone’s putting The Bible on Steam, and they’re adding achievements - rockpapershotgun.com/someones-putti

Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Oct 20, 2022

At last, the unity candidate

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cats with jobs

@CatWorkers

Oct 20, 2022

Larry the cat sitting outside 10 downing street. The caption reads 'New Prime Minister'

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Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Oct 20, 2022

The FT puts a price on stupidity, ft.com/content/089082. The punchline:

Nominations are now open for games, publishers and designers at this year's Tabletop Awards! Tabletop industry: we have categories looking to recognise both established names and emerging talent, so please put yourself and your peers forward!

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Dicebreaker

@joindicebreaker

Oct 18, 2022

Announcing the Tabletop Awards, a new celebration of the year’s best board games, RPGs and the people who make them! dicebreaker.com/events/tableto Publishers and designers: nominate yourself and your games! Players: vote for your favourite game of 2022 in our People's Choice award!

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I hope Phil Harrison does the metaverse next.

I don't think I've ever seen a more bizarrely misapplied PR strategy than the one being used by No 10 today and I work in the games industry

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I asked a bunch of journalists how to make E3 better and the consistent request was "make it more like Gamescom", so I'm glad the team are doing that:

gamesindustry.biz

E3 2023… What’s the latest?

A meal worth its weight in gold

& Brett J

ExCel is currently hosting a brand licencing conference and a Jurassic World exhibition, so I am watching people in Trollz and Paw Patrol costumes walk around to the distant strains of the Jurassic Park theme. Hope the music is still going when the EGX cosplayers show up.

Windows 95 deep cut:

Doom (1993) OST - Buddy Holly

Not a midislap, enjoy my dumb visual.Original song is Buddy Holly by Weezer.

Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Sep 6, 2022

Resolution will never come.

Want to come help me shape the future of

@E3

? We got a bunch of roles, DM me any questions, and apply here: reedpop.com/careers

Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Sep 1, 2022

oh no #MyTwitterAnniversary

Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Aug 23, 2022

Google announces new update:

Do you want to be an investigative journalist? Really proud that

@C4Dispatches

sponsors places on De Montford Uni’s masters course for those who can’t afford it. If you’re interested here’s the link…deadline Aug 26th *Pls RT* #publicservicejournalism dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/

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Only 23 percent of teens say they use Twitter, meaning that we are safe from them here. Their cruel barbs, their silent judgment pewresearch.org/internet/2022/

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Jon Hicks

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Jul 7, 2022

At my last E3 as a journalist in 2013 I swore I would never return unless it was "just to swan around having meetings and nice lunches" so this is an exciting opportunity to do at least one of those things.

gamesindustry.biz

PAX organiser ReedPop to run E3 2023

The Entertainment Software Association announced today that E3 2023 will be organised in partnership with ReedPop.The l…

Jon Hicks

@MrJonty

Jul 7, 2022

Sky News still has the resignation counter going. I am visualising frantic copywriting and proofreading among remaining government figures hoping to snatch a sliver of moral high ground before he goes.

Tomorrow at 6pm BST the Dicebreaker video team find out how safe your rare Pokemon cards are against Fire, Water, Gravity, and... Shotguns?? Using a PSA graded, mint condition Charizard we conduct our next highly scientific experiment. Join us here: youtu.be/qyXYtifRA24

Nice to see The Darkness is still getting work.

I like that the Xbox conference is themed on "things that are coming out soonish". Feels like an attempt to fill an increasingly obvious gap.

Rumours of spaces on a BA flight tomorrow are spreading. People making appointments in Wetherspoons with their new friends.

Excitement grips the crowd at the news there is one seat on a flight tomorrow to the other side of the same country. Might draw lots.

Sufficient camraderie that we're cheering everybody who actually gets to board the plane though. We're happy for them!

Today's

experience is a Battle Royale clown show. Can't even cancel stuff properly.

For work reasons, today I resurrected a very generation-specific earworm. Subsequent generations: I advise you to escape while you still can.

Jon Hicks

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May 18, 2022

There is an interview with

@kierongillen

and our last site that involved him at launch worked out pretty well so I'm taking that as the lucky charm.

We launched a new site today. Popverse covers movies, TV, comics and other essential pop-culture topics, as guided by the expert hands of

@chrisarrant

and

@explodingarrow

. Check it out why not:

thepopverse.com

Popverse

Popverse brings together your favorite pop culture brands to deliver the content you crave from the creators and talent you love – from our homes to yours.

Here's your reminder that we're hiring for a *super exciting* new site that will celebrate video games from *all* eras - if that sounds like your bag, apply here:

apply.workable.com

Hookshot Media

We're Hiring! Hookshot Media publish popular video game channels Nintendo Life, Push Square and Pure Xbox to an ever-growing international audience of readers, viewers and followers.

We had leftover icing from my son's birthday cake, so I've iced a carrot to look a bit like Paul Atreides riding a sandworm through the desert of Arrakis

Facebook users in Europe can have a little death threat, as a treat

reuters.com

Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal...

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A huge thank you to our wonderful YouTube community, who raised a staggering £10,000 for

@BritishRedCross

and the people of Ukraine today! 💙💛 The donation link will remain open if you are able to give any amount: justgiving.com/fundraising/te

A screenshot from JustGiving of the total amount raised in the YouTube charity stream, £10,275

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Oh no, the creature wearing the skin of Atari has bought MobyGames - rockpapershotgun.com/oh-no-atari-ha

the building you keep seeing behind Zelenskiy is fucking insane, btw. it's called the House with Chimeras and it's just an inexplicable surrealist nouveau mansion that happens to be right opposite the President's office. the entablature has rhinos. Władysław Horodecki, 1902.

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