Harrison Abbott
@harrisonabbott.bsky.social
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Insufferably verbose video game reviewer for Bloody Disgusting, with additional bylines at Flickering Myth, Newsweek, Metro and WhatCulture. This is the most concise thing I will ever write. Letterboxd https://boxd.it/469M3
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Reintroducing myself for the recent influx of followers!

Hey, I’m Jay, a freelance writer, podcaster, and social media guy who is usually yapping about horror games and movies.

If you’re an editor or indie dev with coverage needs, I’m your guy!

Portfolio: clippings.me/jaykrieger
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The Long Walk starts as a tense, brutal thriller in the vein of King’s celebrated horror works, before then turning into a moving exploration of friendship and the struggle to cling onto hope in the darkest of times (recalling the big beating heart of Shawshank). My Letterboxd review:
A ★★★★½ review of The Long Walk (2025)
Starts as an incredibly tense, brutal thriller in the vein of King’s more celebrated horror works, before then turning into a more character focussed exploration of friendship, empathy and the struggl...
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Ahead of Gamescom I sat down with @illfonic.bsky.social to learn more their vision for Halloween: The Game, the extent of John Carpenter's involvement in the project, how they're planning to shake up the asymmetrical foruma, and their first proper stab at a solo campaign. Read the inside scoop here!
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‪From indie debuts to AAA heavyweights and nostalgic revisits of some genre classic, @baronaim.bsky.social
and I have rounded up the very best horor games of 2025 so far. Check out our list at @bloody-disgusting.com
Distressing as it may be for us to acknowledge the exponential march of time, we’re now halfway through 2025. And for whatever else it’s brought, one thing that can’t be denied about the year so far is that it has been absolutely stacked with phenomenal horror (or horror adjacent) releases:
The 10 Best Horror Video Games in the First Half of 2025
Distressing as it may be for us to acknowledge the exponential march of time, we’re now halfway through 2025. And for whatever else it’s brought, one thing that can’t be denied about the year so far i...
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Been a long week, but Godzilla will make it better

#NowWatching
Poster for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah
They’d have to pay me $80
I realise my ranking isn't in line with the consensus but agree with your placement of the remake
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My version of Blade Runner is that I use lots of em-dashes in my writing and this could mean that I am an AI
In terms of horror game adaptations released within the last month, Until Dawn is certainly no Last of Us but it's not Home Sweet Home: Rebirth either. It at least understands the spirit of its source material, and relishes in the practical gore effects

My review on Letterboxd boxd.it/9xypMh
A ★★★½ review of Until Dawn (2025)
When I reviewed Home Sweet Home: Rebirth, i was confounded by how it managed to overcomplicate a rather straightforward horror game and how it made next-to-no effort to resemble its source material. S...
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I've been broadly positive about The Last of Us' TV adaptation so far, but have always had one persisting quibble that the world felt way too safe and lacking in peril (in turn, robbing Joel's big choice of some of its significance). Tonight's episode addressed that criticism in a big way. Loved it
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So I've started a new job.

I'm the editor for @epicrpgtales.bsky.social, a new website dedicated to RPGs and the fantasy genre in general.

I'm excited to help build a gaming site from the start.

I thought i'd break the ice by sharing a few of my favorite RPGs from over the years.
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For last week's episode of @saferoompod.bsky.social , @nezzko.bsky.social and I shared our wishlists for games that we think deserve the remake/remaster treatment!

@bloody-disgusting.com @bloodyfm.bsky.social

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If you do nothing but write articles to gas up AI, you're a class traitor and should be chased out of the industry.
Completely baffling to see this article demonstrate the use of AI - for game guides and recommendations of ‘games similar to God of War: Ragnarok’ - without acknowledging that TechRadar’s sister sites and peers are a major source of ChatGPT’s ripped-off info. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
ChatGPT is the ultimate gaming tool - here's 4 ways you can use AI to help with your next playthrough
AI assistance to enhance any video game
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Never saw Coda but:

1) Oppenheimer
2) The Shape of Water
3) Parasite
4) Anora
5) Nomadland
6) Moonlight
7) Green Book
8) Spotlight
9) Everything Everywhere All At Once
Ranking the last 10 Best Picture winners:

1. The Shape of Water
2. Parasite
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once
4. Moonlight
5. Anora
6. Oppenheimer
7. Spotlight
8. Coda
9. Nomadland
10. Green Book
Ranking the last 10 Best Picture winners, why not (as I do every year)

1. Parasite
2. Moonlight
3. Oppenheimer
4. Spotlight
5. Everything? Everywhere? ALL AT ONCE???
6. Anora
7. The Shape of Water
8. Nomadland
9. CODA
10. Green Book

I basically at least LIKE all of these but Green Book.
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Only time will tell if last night’s defeat fully Bradley Cooperizes Timothée Chalamet. He might very well spend the next three years learning to code for a Bill Gates biopic that requires eight hours of hair and makeup per day.
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There's this weird "The Academy only likes young women" narrative popping up suddenly and it's very much not true if you look over the actress winners of the last 15 years. Meryl, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Frances McDormand, Renee Zellweger, Yuh-jung Youn, Allison Janney