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Gaming historian, former game dev, at Cambridge Studio and Frontier, co-host of Electronic Eggs Podcast, aspiring model/actor, socialist, Gooner, father of 4. He/him Modelling profile https://www.saltandpeppermodels.co.uk/men-40/chris-smith

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 33m

Child of Eden showed that following up Rez is just so difficult to get right.

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 34m

Was a good one too!

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

It doesn’t have to always be about killing someone either, you could be having to break into a building to steal information or extracting someone from a building etc.

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

Open world and being a spy couldn’t be more compatible to be honest. Making your own way through an open world gaining intel and identifying marks and being pursued by rival spies could have been so good.

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

We just don’t have enough spy games. I remember this and The Agency both being in development around the same time and couldn’t have been more excited. And we got neither. Even the new Bond doesn’t look like a real spy game.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 13h

Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption writer Dan Houser says Rockstar’s Agent was never released because the spy genre didn't fit the company's trademark open-world gameplay.

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‘I don’t think it works’: GTA writer Dan Houser says Rockstar’s Agent never happened because spy games don’t suit open-world | VGC

Houser says he went through five iterations of Agent before giving up…

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

an advertisement for law and order shows a man and a woman walking

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk and making a funny face .

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 13h

Wait a minute!

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 15h

Your Mount Rushmore of game consoles/handhelds

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 2d

Arsenal have lost only 6 more home league games in their new stadium than Spurs have in theirs. Arsenal have been at the Emirates for 19 years and Spurs have only been at theirs for 6

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 2d

Still playing Super Mario Galaxy 2!

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 3d

After 19 years Virtua Fighter 5 remains the greatest fighting game.

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 4d

Next season of Slow of Horses looks great!

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 4d

Playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and it should be illegal for a game to be this good.

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 4d

Really looking forward to this.

Gematsu @gematsu.com · 4d

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow launches December 4

Virtual reality stealth action game Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow will launch for PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 2 and 3 on December 4, publisher Vertigo Games and developer Maze Theory announced.

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow launches December 4

Virtual reality stealth action game Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow will launch for PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 2 and 3 on December 4, publisher Vertigo Games and developer Maze Theory announced.

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 4d

I remember reading that issue and not being able to look at my NES again.

Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 4d

Ghost of Yotei is really heating up! The game just gets better and better.