Are Nintendo pre-empting Trump's tariffs or is there another reason for this? Nintendo will be selling a region-locked #Switch2 in Japan for $133 less than the international version - the one sold in the rest of the world.

Is there precedent for this?

So @telegraphnews.bsky.social is claiming that the BBFC's content advice, which they've written for as long as I can remember, is now some kind of 'woke' trigger warning.

It's either ignorance or willful ignorance - not sure wat's worse.

The #NintendoSwitch2 reveal in a nutshell:

Grand Theft Auto 6 loading screen

This is what video game protagonists used to look like c.2013. If they were turned into films, the exact same actors would be up for each role.

But nah games are all the same *now*.

Loving the comparative lack of toxicity on Bluesky, but nobody's doing it like Twitter

I know Matt Berry gets a lot of advertising work, but I didn't realise he was writing copy too...

Rewatched the recent Doctor Who episode '73 Yards' last night. I not only think it's one of the best #doctorwho episodes, but one of the best episodes of TV I've seen in a long time.

Even if you don't watch the show, seek it out on its own. Incredible.

In a world of Cokes, be a Lidl. #genAI #boke

Signed up to a game jam with only a few hours to spare. I didn't have enough time to finish - let alone polish - this but I had a lot of fun!

I've always wanted to play as a butt trumpeter from #medieval marginalia, and I thought some of you would enjoy this WIP!

Everyone moving over from Twitter like:

#doctorwho

After his encounter with St Winifred, the axe even appears as a 'quest reward', an item that just so happened to appear upon its completion. I'd love to flesh out these ideas further another time, but for now, here's a very silly video I cut from a talk about two years ago:

The original poem features a series of exchange-games like Blind Man's Buff and other popular Christmas entertainments. The film is much the same, but modern significances render them more akin to 'quests' (itself an appropriation from romance) in modern RPGs.

I get that #TheGreenKnight is divisive among medievalists, but a pen-and-paper RPG is a genuinely spot-on piece of marketing.

When the original poem draws on the associations of popular medieval games, the production of a game that foregrounds player choice is genuinely smart. #medievalsky

Hello Bluesky! I am a recent PhD graduate from NI. My thesis identified a 'ludic mode' within late medieval English narratives (romance, drama, poetry), offering new critical perspectives on the likes of The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Happy to chat about my research!