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Ben Sledge
@bensledge.co.uk
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Award-losing journalist, news @ PCGamesN, freelance elsewhere, formerly TheGamer, The Loadout (RIP).

Words: Eurogamer, The Guardian, IGN, NME, Kotaku, VICE, more ✍ he/him
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when liverpool concede four at home to psv
A woman in a black beret looking sternly at the camera, with the caption, "to this day, I hate bald boys."
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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If I had a stylist, I'd just show them pictures of 'youths' from Soviet magazine Krokodil
Krokodil magazine cover showing a fashionable young person walking with an umbrella and a cigarette in their mouth. Krokodil magazine cover showing a fashionable young person walking in patchwork jeans while their granny looks on in shock. Krokodil magazine cover showing a fashionable young person showing off their arse in new jeans, which have the word 'cowboy' stitched onto the back. Two cool youths from a Krokodil magazine cover.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🙃
A wonder pick in Pokémon TCG Pocket where I picked the two hourglasses instead of any of the full art cards.
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Played Turnip28, Necropolis28, Off Kanagawa, Squirm (complete with grinding up dead minis in a permadeath mode), as well as kitbashing my own game called Jeerleaders (an award-winning dexterity game about a squad of Orc cheerleaders) with this excellent squad of legends.
A gruesome Turnip28 board with teeth and dentistry equipment. Playtesting Off Kanagawa, a game by Marginalia Miniatures based on Hokusai's famous print. A meat grinder with a pile of miniature bits beneath its gaping maw. A group of friends flex their muscles in their best Orcy impression.
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I drew this!
An illustration of a soldier with a garlic head holding a rifle.
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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shh americans are asleep post your baked beans recipes
A small pan of baked beans with a knob of butter melting in the centre and sriracha drizzled on top
October 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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anyone in print know what the heck happened to my copy of edge. the streaks almost feel like glue, and maybe the paper from the envelope got stuck to them? but why would there be streaks of glue?
The back cover of edge magazine. It's black with the gold number 007 in small font in the centre. Streaks of white run down it.
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Limmy would hire me. You should, too.

Open to freelance and full-time writing work from November. Get in touch by email or DM.
October 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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been doing some painting tonight
A Cathayan soldier holding a spear upright and a pipe in the other hand. He has emerald green robes, red and gold armour, and a green headband. He stands on a desk in front of cluttered paints.
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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don't talk to me or my son ever again
two paint pots armed with axes and spears in front of a background of hills
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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good morning
Suicune card from Pokémon TCG Pocket
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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been posting some neat photos of my wardollies over on my hobby instagram

painted these nearly a decade ago now! just touched up some bits on the one on the right (shiny faceplate came out nice) the other day
A mutant Kastelan robot with an Ogryn head and Dreadnought leg. a mutant Kastelan Robot with a gloss black helmet aims it's gun to the right.
August 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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'Hepatitis Caught' in the Elden Ring font.
August 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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pretty on brand. guess I liked star wars in 2016
A Steam receipt showing purchases for Star Wars KOTOR, Vermintide, Dawn of War, Goat Simulator, Battlefront 2, Doom, and The Witcher 3.
August 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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my wife is currently reading a book about the history of zines and check out the cover of this sci-fi zine from 1941
A photo of a page in a book showing a hand-made zine cover. On the cover is a dragon attacking an aeroplane and the words Science Fantasy Fan in bold.
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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went to a wedding in a forest this weekend and got into an argument with my old pal cal about whether scampi fries are veggie or not (they are) (I was right)
my friend and I arguing while looking at a small yellow packet of scampi fries
August 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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GOOD MORNING 😡
Two shiny male Combee, which cannot evolve, in my Pokémon Go inventory.
August 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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good morning 🙃
A shiny male Combee, which cannot evolve, in Pokémon Go.
August 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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any excuse to post my corrupted iron hands
three corrupted iron hands bladeguard veterans featuring heavy augmetics and exposed flesh
July 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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found more, free to a good home

or a bad one, I'm not yer ma
six copies of edge magazine featuring popular video game characters such as mario mario and that robot from star wars. no, the other one
July 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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any of you fuckers want some old edge magazines

subscriber covers, I'll post em
13 copies of edge magazine. unlucky for some, lucky for you
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Merry and Pippin, two hobbits with curly hair, stand next to each other. Pippin, on the right, asks "What about second breakfast?" Which is subtitled at the bottom.
July 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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more books should be this beautiful
The cover of 28 Collected magazine on a messy desk. A double-page spread of 28 Mag showcasing John Blanche's art. A double-page spread of 28 Mag showcasing Trish Carden's art. A double-page spread of 28 Mag showcasing Ian Miller's art.
July 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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these Jon Hodgson backdrops make even the most mediocre painting look boss

#AdWIP
#WarhammerCommunity
#NewHeresy
An Iron Hands Saturnine Dreadnought from Warhammer: the Horus Heresy painted black in front of a red Martian backdrop.
July 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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AI is fine if you make a joke about it, actually 🤮
The reverse packaging of a pack of THIS brand vegetarian sausages that mimics a conversation with an AI chatbots. It reads as follows: The cringey Al description of us was actually funnier than anything we'd have written here: "How would you describe THIS in a funny way?" "You could say that THIS is like the ultimate and daring undercover secret agent in the food world - dressing up in perfect disguise as May contai pork, chicken and beef, but sulphites. P without any of the actual animals SUITABLE involved. It has a license not to kill, but to fill - your belly."
July 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM