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British journalist. Contributing writer for . Author of 'Death by Video Game' -

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    Aug 18

    Happily, my story about English carp thieves is part of the 2017 American Nonrequired Reading anthology:

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  2. 17 hours ago

    “One big problem...is that the management of large media operations aren’t familiar with how social media works.”

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    Dec 5

    You might not have much sympathy for Russia’s authorities who devised the doping system, but spare a thought for the athletes. Harsh for many of them. Pic

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  4. Dec 5
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    Geoffrey Boycott, celebrated shoutcaster.

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  5. Dec 5

    Why 'shoutcast' when you can 'commentate'?

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  6. Dec 5

    A good joke that Claire Foy's partner could make would be to, at every given opportunity, accuse her of being a "drama queen"

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  7. Dec 4

    The rise and fall of the poinsettia empire:

    here is the thing about poinsettias
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  8. Dec 4
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    Also: a good new logo for Twitter because, y’know, it shows both sides

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    Oct 19

    Ivan Chermayeff's 1974 poster for the stage production of War and Peace is *chef's kiss*:

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  10. Dec 4
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    ack, Ivan Chermayeff died yesterday.

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  11. Dec 4
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    (download the VR remake here: )

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  12. Dec 4

    Desert Bus, Penn and Teller's wilfully tedious driving game, now has a virtual reality sequel, free to download on PC. Here's my story on the original: .

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  13. Dec 4
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    (Thursday! Not today!)

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  14. Dec 4
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    Anyway, many gems in this story, (did you know, for example, that, as a schoolboy, Nobuo Uematsu wanted to become a pro wrestler. His WWE name? The Scotch Piper), which should be in shops today.

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  15. Dec 4
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    The company almost closed, not because it was hit-less, but because the CEO (also in his twenties at the time) decided to move the studio to Ginza in hope of being taken more seriously. The money evaporated in rent.

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  16. Dec 4
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    A striking thing meeting these men and women was how unfeasibly young they were at the time; one described Square, whose first office opened in a hair salon in the mid-1980s, as a kind of student drop-in.

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  17. Dec 4
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    Embarrassing but true, and explains something of the sense of excitement (and, maybe, of a loop closing) that I felt interviewing many of the series’ creators on its 30th anniversary for this month’s :

    For the collectors: Edge 314, celebrating 30 years of Final Fantasy, is available as a 15-cover box set. Pre-orders:
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  18. Dec 4

    When I was a kid I’d take the train to Soho’s Golden Square and loiter outside Square-Enix’s London office in the hope of seeing (not even meeting!) one of the Final Fantasy team.

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  19. Dec 3
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    Also: this is my final column as next year I’ll be writing a longer monthly print piece of game criticism for the New Review instead. So grateful for the Observer’s pioneering willingness to consider the medium in this way and context.

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  20. Dec 3

    While we worry about looming pandemics and the genocide of bees, more than fifty video game worlds have, to date, burned up in apocalyptic fires. My column in today's

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    Dec 1

    'A tale of decay': the frightful state of the Houses of Parliament. My

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