This is my new home, where I'll be covering the same beats i did at Polygon as well as taking on some new and exciting projects!!
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This is my new home, where I'll be covering the same beats i did at Polygon as well as taking on some new and exciting projects!!
This quiz by @chrislivingston.bsky.social is surprisingly hard. Turns out a lot of the games that stick out to me as having been huge hits came out 10+ years ago when there were far fewer Steam users. www.pcgamer.com/games/how-we...
Hey Steven how you gonna dress in this trailer promoting a game for little kids. oh like Al Capone's accountant, ok cool
"I am the one who blox." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGl...
Remember when Steven Spielberg was in a trailer for a Wii game called Boom Blox Bash Party while dressed as Walter White? Because I don't remember that. I don't remember that at all. Even watching it now I don't think it ever happened
made this for work but I shall provide no context
At the end of The Usual Suspects an old man stood up and yelled “Baloney!” and quite honestly he was correct
You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the...
Wrote about this earlier this year but if you want to break up with NYT Games, Merriam-Webster has a great collection of free daily puzzles: Wordle-likes, a Spelling Bee-like, crosswords, trivia, etc. www.pcgamer.com/games/i-only...
We are dabbling in quizzes over at PC Gamer. I was the Chosen One (due to a birthmark on my head that spells out the word "QUIZ") to create our inaugural quiz, and if you would like to take the quiz and let me know what you think about the quiz that would be quiz www.pcgamer.com/games/quiz-t...
As a doctor, I'd say that sneeze indicates you have a mild cold. Or, you're infected with zombie plague and you need to immediately be put to death by an impassive soldier. Could be either one. Also, I'm not a doctor. www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/im...
tfw when I spend hours fighting and mining and crafting to get cool armor in Dune: Awakening and then some NPC shows me up with an accessory Funcom: let me craft my own parasol, cowards
Want a sneak peek behind the scenes of the #PCGamingShow? We got you! 😜 👀
Wow, thanks! Had no idea it was the 20th anniversary this month. I should probably try to at least plan something for the 25th anniversary, huh?
Missed my anniversary yesterday: 2 years with no nicotine after 30-ish years of lots of nicotine. Toot 🎺
Nope, never worked on Double Dare, Super Sloppy or otherwise. I think I booked travel for him once (I was an office PA at the time) but that's it 🙂
I wrote a tribute to Leif Johnson, a former writer for many gaming publications, and my friend, who died last weekend. The world is poorer without him in it.
This is cool: an unsettling little indie game that takes maybe 30 minutes to play has been made into a movie that's now showing at Cannes Film Festival. www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/do...
Here is me truck-napping @chrislivingston.bsky.social and driving away with him. Chris also wrote up some deeper impressions: www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/th...
I'm so sorry to hear that. I met him a few times on some of my earliest press trips and he was an absolute sweetheart.
you don't need to watch Conclave when you've got cig pope www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-w...
8 years late to this but what a ride. A simple & silly premise (guess what's in this dumpster) quickly turns to intrigue. 45 minutes of comedy gold and a surprisingly suspenseful mystery. youtu.be/Nwi_kE0gy94?...
GTA 6 trailer suddenly reminded me of that time I played as a shark in GTA 5 www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-shark-...
They managed without headphones for quite a while
But like, specifically, Conan has an engineer to handle levels, he interviews celebrities who know not to mumble, they're in a recording studio with zero distractions, why they all wearing headphones
I assume there's some high tech podcast answer but I'm genuinely wondering, like, why do 4 people sitting at a table together all have to be wearing headphones to hear each other
Here's @morganpark.bsky.social telling you everything you need to know about Skin Deep and immersive sims in two perfect opening paragraphs: www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/sk...
If you or anyone you know has work for me, you can reach me at tylercolp at gmail dot com!
I'm really sorry (and infuriated) that this is happening
The wildest concept in Black Mirror Season 7 was a scene where a rich white CEO committed a crime and was handcuffed and arrested. How does Charlie Brooker come up with this outlandish sci-fi shit???? Bonkers
imagine choosing “New Run” instead of Endless. Some sicko probably did that once
thanks for remembering me all these years later!!
yep I am 🙃
I doubt I will ever officially "finish" Blue Prince (if that's a thing you can even do) or 100% it because I'm way out of my depth with a lot of these puzzles and mysteries. But I can't remember the last time a game rewarded me so much for just nosing around it for hours on end.
Last night I set foot in yet another location I'd never seen before. Found some clues. Finished the run and went to bed. Realized I had a theory about one of those clues. Got out of bed and had another run to test the theory. Theory was correct(ish). Found more clues. No theories on those yet.
I "finished" Blue Prince back in August. I "finished" it again and reviewed it in April. I'm still playing probably 3-4 times a week and I'm still finding new stuff almost every time I play. I'm at about 66 hours and I've seen people with twice that playtime say they're still finding stuff too.
I was thinking about that today! We’ll see, when I have time to actually relax and play at my own pace (slow) I’ll definitely consider it.
The wait is finally over! MACLUNKEY TREASURE ISLAND: AN ALL STAR LIVE READING OF STAR WARS, EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE is live on YouTube! Check it out at swliveread.com
This is the only way I will consume Star Wars from now on: Dynasty Typewriter's live readings of the scripts. From Phantom Menace to A New Hope, with Empire coming in May. Where else you gonna see Richard Kind as Darth Vader or Nina West as Palpatine? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
big same
I played through Blue Prince way back in August and desperately tried to make it my GOTY for 2024—but it didn't come out. So I'll make it my GOTY for 2025 instead. Technically that's two GOTYs, and yeah, it deserves 'em both. www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...
My hat fell off, I bent over to pick it up, I slipped, I fell halfway down the mountain I'd just climbed. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
One of the delights of GDC is spotting a cool weird little game you hadn't heard of and getting to chat with the dev for a bit www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
This is an actual cap you can buy in the MLB shop lol
Gonna make an absolutely wild guess here that the MLB used AI to come up with the new overlap cap concept and then no human being actually bothered checked to see if it was a damn mess or not www.sbnation.com/mlb/2025/3/1...
Me, abruptly, while making oatmeal in my kitchen 31 years 9 months and 14 days after the movie Cliffhanger was released: "Nah, I don't think you could bench press a guy through a stalactite"
First probably five times I saw it my biggest question was “So his name is Wayne Grow? Why give him a name like Wayne Grow and have everyone say his full name every time?”
Thanks!
I would prefer "I hope this email finds you well, here's why you suck at foreplay"
I literally sat back in my chair and just stared at it in wonder for a few seconds
today I freehand cropped a 3840x2160 image to a perfect 1920x1080 and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done
This isn't reverse psychology, I am really suggesting you don't look at this video www.pcgamer.com/hardware/i-a...
Just remembering when Wordle first got big and offbrand Wordle merch appeared that didn’t really get Wordle
actually said this out loud while walking the dog in the park, once I realized I'd brought my airpods with me: "Oh, yeah! I don't have to listen to my fucking thoughts"
yesterday i took a load of cold medicine and then was reminded i had a weekend feature deadline and this was the result. i'm sorry. i am sorry. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/i-...
Game's over, my computer model predicts an Eagles win by 7 and an Eagles player getting hit so hard he almost lands in the blimp
A simulated sports liveblog is a combination of three awesome things: reading, waiting, and not actually seeing the simulated sports. This is sure to catch on
I'm using Football Simulator and I turned the physics up just a little
Mostly because no one specifically told me not to, I'm currently live-blogging my annual simulation of the Super Bowl over on PC Gamer. To be clear: you can't watch the simulation live, but you can watch me blog about it live. www.pcgamer.com/games/live/n...
TIL there are wikipedia pages for shit famous people didn’t do
I even underlined it twice
I have a little dry erase cube on my desk to leave myself notes and I tried really hard last week to write "BE POSITIVE" on it but I couldn't physically do it so I went with "DON'T BE NEGATIVE" instead and I look at it probably 20-30 times a day and still can't obey it
Sorry. I do like the hell out of your game if that helps
Email: “The Smurfs are back, and they need your help more than ever" Me: "Have the Smurfs needed my help in the past? I... I wasn't aware. I have not been helping them. I am so sorry"
This'll allow robot vacuums to pick up objects in their way like socks or slippers or, y'know, murder you www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Hank among the turkeys
I don't think lifelike companionship robots are a bad idea. What I do think is a bad idea is a video meant to convince people your companionship robot is lifelike that concludes with someone ripping the lifelike companionship robot's face off www.pcgamer.com/hardware/if-...
i'm doing reporting www.pcgamer.com/hardware/tin...
forgot about the sunglasses on my head until they fell perfectly into place while saying "diahrrea medication" to the pharmacist
Gun mug, you guys. Gun mug. Hey, you guys: gun mug www.pcgamer.com/hardware/con...
Hank has reached the optimal level of shagginess where a handlebar moustache begins to form naturally
the way I find out about celebrity deaths these days is from Letterman YT video thumbnails (note: Terry Bradshaw is not dead)
I think I wound up with about 40 aces which, in hindsight, was way more aces than I actually needed
soliciting on a sunday, really
SEO: brick and mortar edition
me reaching my 15 minute time limit on reddit, instagram, bluesky, and tiktok and it’s only 7:13 am
when you're too lazy to read the mission briefing and then wind up flying people around in whatever the hell this thing is that you've never seen or flown before
Remember our motto -- "Placeholder Airways: We're working on a motto!"
I tried to color coordinate my wardrobe to match the plane: purple (shoes) yellow (shorts) green (jacket) white (hair). That's the attention to detail you get with Placeholder Airways
After weeks of buggy missions in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 career mode I finally earned enough as a merc pilot to start my own company. I named it "Placeholder Airways" because sometimes my pilot will say "Placeholder" when they forgot to write dialogue for him.
The suspect played a game called "Wordle" in which players form 5-letter words like "SHOOT" and "KILLS"
Finally spotted one but it was while I was in mid-takeoff on a cargo mission so I couldn't get credit in photo mode
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selfie while searching for kangaroos in a 1:1 scale Australia (I did not find any)
I find it deeply unpleasant. Is that a new phobia brought on by doorbell cams? "What if I come home but I'm already home?"
When our doorbell camera alert goes off, there's always a moment where the app displays the last thing it saw instead of the new thing it's seeing. The last thing it saw is often ME coming into the house earlier, so several times a week I have a brief unsettling moment of seeing myself outside 😟
When you say the name of the band "The The" do you say it like the word "The" twice in a row with no particular emphasis on either "The" or do you say "The The" as if you might say "The Who" or "The Clash" so there's a slight emphasis on the second "The"?
Tower this is Cessna flight... oh, I don't know, a bunch of numbers and letters. Just reporting water buffalo on and near the runway, Tower, should they be there? One of them is quite smiley. Repeat, smiley.
Maybe it’s cuz my pilot is so sexy
My first S-tier mission rating in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 despite a) ruining 18% of the cargo, b) damaging 38% of the airplane, c) not actually landing on the runway, d) parking in the bushes, but e) somehow following 25% more airline procedures than actually exist. I don't get this game
Well the post ate the headline because I added pictures. Anyway, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 you can set the date to April 8 and see the whole dang eclipse happen www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/if...
This is pretty neat, especially zooming the camera out into space and seeing the shadow of the moon on North America www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/if...
Not a big impact but a little impact 🙂
Started walking 30 minutes a day in March, eventually made that an hour, then started mixing in a little jogging. Eventually became jogging 2-ish miles with a bit of walking. Started aiming for 5k/3.1 miles in October (still with a bit of walking) and finally just jogging the whole 5k this month
Ran 5k 23 times in November. My favorite part were the rest days
What's the difference between "went perfectly" and "we're lucky to be alive" really
On the plus side it was a five minute shader compilation screen before the last patch
