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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 · 55m

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

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 14h

oh shiiiiiiii

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 15h

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

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 13d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

Escalation.

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the film Carrie (1976) for the first time. I sure hope these 35 year-old teenagers have this young girl's best interests at heart.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 3d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 10,1947

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1-NANCY: I'M ENJOYING THIS LONG
HIKE
SLUGGO: OW... MY CORN IS STARTIN' TO HOIT

P2-SLUGGO: oww--
DIS CORN IS MOIDER

NANCY: WE'LL FIX IT UP WHEN WE GET HOME

NANCY HELPS SLUGGO HOME

P3- NANCY: I'LL SEE IF I CAN FIND SOMETHING FOR IT

SLUGGO HAS TAKEN HIS SHOE AND SOCK OFF

P4- NANCY COMES BACK AND POURS SOMETHING ON SLUGGO’S FOOT
THE LABEL ON THE CAN READS…CORN SYRUP

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers! Seems wise, because then it's at least teenagers mixed with other teenagers. And not toddlers mixed with giants.

Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 4d

You know an obsession has gone too far when a friend steps in and goes, "that's enough talk about Buldak noodles, now."

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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 4d

"Ben Starr!"

The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast @backpagepod.bsky.social · 4d

Coming tomorrow! What we've been playing, featuring: Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 revisited. Plus others!

We're impressions guys now. Here's a preview:

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The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

buff.ly

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