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

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 18

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

  2. “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

  4. Dec 5
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    Geoffrey Boycott, celebrated shoutcaster.

  5. Dec 5

    Why 'shoutcast' when you can 'commentate'?

  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"

  7. Dec 4

    The rise and fall of the poinsettia empire:

  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*:

  10. Dec 4
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    ack, Ivan Chermayeff died yesterday.

  11. Dec 4
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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: .

  13. Dec 4
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    (Thursday! Not today!)

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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 :

  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.

  19. Dec 3

    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.

  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

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