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Samuel Roberts

@samuelwroberts.bsky.social

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Northern Europe PR for Bethesda, co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast, large man who lives in Bath. Previously: Frontier, PC Gamer, GI.biz

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · Dec 20

Time to rescue this one from Twitter:

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 37m

The algorithm has once again gone too far:

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 15h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 15h

(I was very nice about it.)

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 16h

It's me, the man who comments in the Instagram posts of a local restaurant because they're no longer serving a sandwich I like.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 16h

Well, that's immediately on the 'to-read' list for after work.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 16h

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 21h

Great piece. More publishers should open fire on Google like this.

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 3d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

oh shiiiiiiii

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

First Rematch game of season 1. Just remembering what it is to feel this alive. Plus:

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Steam Next Fest demo starter pack:
- Cairn
- The Berlin Apartment
- The Killing Stone
- Crisol: Theater of Idols
- Nighthawks
- Skate Story

If only I was still 13, when I had *endless time* to throw at the Tarzan Freeride demo that came with OPM.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Podcasting is really just the art of seeming smarter than you actually are – my brain is always operating at 5% capacity, and my talking points reflect that.

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

TV in 2010: me watching Mad Men at 7am Monday on a dodgy streaming site.
TV in 2025: they attached a camera and microphone to this pomeranian; antics ensue

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, kinda dangerous! I'm being very sparing with its usage. On the right day, though, it really hits the spot.

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most I've ever related to a Game Over screen:

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

When you play Yars' Revenge in 1982 then Gradius in 1986:

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a glowing image projected on it

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, what an episode. Amazing war stories for the Final Fantasy sickos (also makes me think I should play more Matsuno games).

My Perfect Console podcast @myperfectconsole.bsky.social · 14d

Good scheduling is key to successfully translating massive games like Final Fantasy XIII.

Join @SimonParkin.bsky.social and translator @aokajiya.bsky.social as he discusses how he helped bring Japanese classics like Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII to Western players.

Listen now: bit.ly/3KlzWPX

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Coming up to Steam Next Fest! Besides enjoying the demos and discovering new games, it brings the best out of every games website going. We're doing a whole episode on it for @backpagepod.bsky.social this month.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

When you go from NES Pinball and Golf to Super Mario Bros:

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, now to regret committing to a day of playing old NES games for the purposes of podcasting.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Escalation.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

It has the distinct whiff of Homer boarding the ship of lost souls in one of the first lesser Simpsons seasons:

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

On the Mad Men episode where Don hangs out with a load of rich weirdos in LA. The first real flight of fancy the show takes (way more in seasons to come).

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Deep into a 9-hour sleep, I had a dream my boss was showing me a PowerPoint with 20+ slides on all the ways we had to write about AI on the website I was working on.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 3d

October 11th. Fifteen years ago today I had my first day of work with a little game dev team in Austin, Texas called Arkane Studios. They were just gearing up full production on a new game in a new IP, called Dishonored.

I was terrified. 1/24

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 4d

This high school girl has plausibly had a 10-year run in print media: