Graham Smith
@grahamsmith.bsky.social
Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
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Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
store.steampowered.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
Just saw that Anthony Jackson died, one of the best (and most prolific) bass guitar players. For years I've been returning to these Hiromi Trio Project performances in which Jackson plays a six-stringed bass guitar that he *invented*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYI...
Hiromi Uehara - Voice - Jazz à Vienne 2011 - LIVE HD
YouTube video by Zycopolis TV
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Just saw that Anthony Jackson died, one of the best (and most prolific) bass guitar players. For years I've been returning to these Hiromi Trio Project performances in which Jackson plays a six-stringed bass guitar that he *invented*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYI...
This is really easy outrage bait, but it's worth reading the original story no one links to see this is a consequence of climate change and not a moustache-twirling Lord McVitie cackling upon his chocolate (flavoured) throne: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
October 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is really easy outrage bait, but it's worth reading the original story no one links to see this is a consequence of climate change and not a moustache-twirling Lord McVitie cackling upon his chocolate (flavoured) throne: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work!
⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.
🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.
Let's chat!
hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.
🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.
Let's chat!
hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work!
⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.
🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.
Let's chat!
hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.
🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.
Let's chat!
hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
Split Fiction (2025).
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Split Fiction (2025).
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Feel this is being buried under the digital ID announcement today.
Ministers plan to allow naming and shaming of offenders completing community sentences
Exclusive: critics say the move, part of the sentencing bill for England and Wales, would bring shame upon families of offenders
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Feel this is being buried under the digital ID announcement today.
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So Starmer is backing ID cards - which I do not like - in order to facilitate this government’s ugly immigration policies - which I also do not like - and in doing so is apparently spiralling down the electoral drain and throwing votes to Farage - whom I do not like?
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
September 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So Starmer is backing ID cards - which I do not like - in order to facilitate this government’s ugly immigration policies - which I also do not like - and in doing so is apparently spiralling down the electoral drain and throwing votes to Farage - whom I do not like?
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
If anyone is considering purchasing part of a property via a shared ownership scheme, I strongly suggest you: don't. It's pitched as "affordable" housing but then they will quadruple your service charge and make it so no mortgage lender will touch it, stopping you from selling or staircasing.
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
If anyone is considering purchasing part of a property via a shared ownership scheme, I strongly suggest you: don't. It's pitched as "affordable" housing but then they will quadruple your service charge and make it so no mortgage lender will touch it, stopping you from selling or staircasing.
I started my new job last month: I'm now studio manager/producer at Suspicious Developments, the team responsible for Tactical Breach Wizards, Heat Signature and Gunpoint!
September 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I started my new job last month: I'm now studio manager/producer at Suspicious Developments, the team responsible for Tactical Breach Wizards, Heat Signature and Gunpoint!
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We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]
September 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]
Would people be willing to pay more for Silksong? Sure. Is it worth more? No idea. Is it nice to have an interaction with capitalism that isn't designed by a team of data analysts to take you for the absolute maximum possible? Yeah.
September 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Would people be willing to pay more for Silksong? Sure. Is it worth more? No idea. Is it nice to have an interaction with capitalism that isn't designed by a team of data analysts to take you for the absolute maximum possible? Yeah.
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The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre
Follow the instructions at the top of this open letter to join the campaign and sign
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Follow the instructions at the top of this open letter to join the campaign and sign
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Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.
I don't know what this is but it's the apex of technology
August 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I don't know what this is but it's the apex of technology
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We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I
August 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I
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I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis
Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors
www.polygon.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
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Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.
Donkey Kong Bananza review - delirious destruction derby takes hammer to platforming conventions
Given that its hero can smash through any barrier – which is delightful fun in itself – Nintendo’s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.
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Thanks for keeping your word @grahamsmith.bsky.social
It's your team versus mine, Tom. Let's make it interesting: whoever's team loses has to quit their job.
July 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thanks for keeping your word @grahamsmith.bsky.social
After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.
July 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.
I think what I love most about Nintendo consoles is how intuitive they are for families. [Spends four hours Googling for information Nintendo doesn't give you anywhere.]
July 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think what I love most about Nintendo consoles is how intuitive they are for families. [Spends four hours Googling for information Nintendo doesn't give you anywhere.]
Rematch puts "defensive stance" on LT, but press it during celebrations and it unmutes your microphone. Did this unknowingly last night and broadcast a YT video I was watching on a 2nd screen on comms until someone shouted at me.
The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk
The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk
July 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Rematch puts "defensive stance" on LT, but press it during celebrations and it unmutes your microphone. Did this unknowingly last night and broadcast a YT video I was watching on a 2nd screen on comms until someone shouted at me.
The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk
The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk
I'm sure the game developers at Microsoft appreciate hack journalists rushing to incorrectly announce their studio's closure for clout. That's how you be an ally to the workers
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm sure the game developers at Microsoft appreciate hack journalists rushing to incorrectly announce their studio's closure for clout. That's how you be an ally to the workers
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Long-term followers: this is me applying my RPS style to toys. Gags, analysis, diversions, existential crisis.
Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does.
New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.
Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does.
New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.
A Gun In Every Christmas Stocking: my first newsletter proper on A Million Robots delves into the dangerous but oddly delicate original Megatron toy.
Absurd but darkly irresistible- and responsible for this terrible plastic sickness I have.
alecmeer.substack.com/p/a-gun-in-e...
Absurd but darkly irresistible- and responsible for this terrible plastic sickness I have.
alecmeer.substack.com/p/a-gun-in-e...
July 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Long-term followers: this is me applying my RPS style to toys. Gags, analysis, diversions, existential crisis.
Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does.
New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.
Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does.
New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.