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Brands, eh? I love brands. Who doesn’t? I love supporting my favourite brands online. I love engaging with my favourite brands online. But what I love most of all is when my favourite brands engage with each other online. I can’t imagine anyone thinks these things, really — not
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Jim Ryan gave a decent interview to GI.biz last week, reflecting on the challenges of launching a console in a pandemic and PS5’s strong start, and telling a few excellent stories from earlier in his career (it is worth a read if only for the Ken Kutaragi bit)
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In a way, I sort of owe Toshihiro Nagoshi — whose departure from RGG Studio and Sega has been confirmed overnight — my career as a game journalist. Back in the early 2000s, when I first discovered Edge, he had a monthly column that I think was supposed to be about games,
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Gosh, that Facebook outage the other day was funny, wasn’t it. I particularly liked the detail, from Alex Hern at The Guardian, that Facebook is so structurally dependent on itself that its tech staff could not communicate with each other about the outage, log in to assess the problem
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Sony has finally announced the acquisition of Bluepoint Games, confirming one of the worst-kept secrets of the year. It’s further proof that Sony is thinking about acquisitions in a very different way to Microsoft. The Xbox maker’s most eye-catching buyouts — Bethesda, Double Fine, Ninja Theory — have been historically
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I’ve avoided writing about NFTs in Hit Points so far. This is in part because I did some work for a blockchain-gaming startup a while ago, and needed a bit of distance before I could think clearly, fairly and personally about it. There’s also the fact that, despite
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Over the weekend, gel-slicked Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann tweeted a still from the forthcoming HBO adaptation of The Last Of Us. At first glance, I thought it was a screenshot from Part II. They have absolutely nailed the aesthetic, but I doubt I’ll watch it. I find playing
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My wife fancies Tom Hardy. It’s fine — doesn’t everyone? If I’m honest, I fancy Tom Hardy a bit too. From time to time he reads the bedtime story on UK kids’ channel CBeebies, sat there with his dog, wearing a hat I could never pull off and
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Hello! First, my apologies for the lack of an update on Monday. I bashed out a few hundred words on something, but wasn’t really sure it was going anywhere. I asked myself, ‘What’s my point here, really?’ and the answer was, well, I dunno. A newsletter allows me
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Sir Clive Sinclair, pioneer of British home computing, died yesterday morning after a long illness. He was, perfectly, 81 years old. His influence on the story and shape of the UK game industry cannot be overstated, but I am not sufficiently equipped to do it justice. You read Hit Points,
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It must have been carnage at Nvidia HQ the other day, after a GeForce Now database leak inadvertently revealed the names of dozens of unannounced, in-development games, some of them made by the biggest and most powerful companies in the industry. How on Earth do you respond to something like
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Hit Points is fifty! Heavens above. It’s now a little over three months since I first unveiled it to the world, and with a nice round number giving me a milestone worth marking, I thought I’d use today’s installment to talk about how it’s going, how
