In a new Gamescom tradition, we ask developers to pitch their game in the time it takes to ride an escalator This is a special favourite, in which we learn of a game where Danish people on dinosaurs are threatening the civility of British medieval village life

I wasn’t going to bite on MGSV’s ninth anniversary but this video obliged me. Using horse poop to make enemy jeeps skid off track doesn’t even make the cut in this video of absurd gameplay possibilities.

Why was Concorde decommissioned? "Air France and British Airways cited low passenger numbers and high maintenance costs" thesun.co.uk/news/2203042/c…

Lots of other issues at play, obv, but the #1 challenge for all games is *why* should I play / care? Lore, story and creating a mystery you want to unlock is one lever, another might be a novel gameplay feature Concord didn’t have, or failed to communicate, any of that

Folks, stop whatever you're doing and grab that monkey paw, because I just connected to train wi-fi and it's working without interruption

This article starts by saying people in London only drive at 9mph and leaps to ‘why are the Welsh upset about 20mph speed limits’? I don’t know where to begin, but I would suggest by driving on some of the non-urban open Welsh roads that were 20 zones theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Walking Dead: Dead City is pretty good? Like six 7/10 mini episodes back-to-back with extra Negan (a good thing), and less bratty c-list super friends doing good before inevitable death. Less, not none. Lord set up is decent. Ready for more.

Craig Bellamy’s Wales will be fun, possibly disastrous. 100mph Mission2Burnley like Eamon Holmes trying to break the unicycling speed record after a week of training, Bello clapping approvingly in a Harrington jacket having shown his hairdresser a Ryan Reynolds picture last week

Chaplin grade physical comedy

It's interesting to rewatch the PS4 Pro Reveal Tech Presentation with Mark Cerny in 2016 What was PS4 Pro's legacy? HDR lighting? Moderate performance improvements? An expensive way to see Death Stranding, RDR2 and HZD as their best selves? youtube.com/watch?v=tuI9yU…

It is oddly reassuring to know that all companies use spreadsheets where they can check 'what did we do last time?'

What’s going on in the mid-to-premium menswear sector? Yogi Footwear going into ‘hibernation’, french online retailer L’Exception liquidating stock, once iconic outlet Matches folded, Oi Polloi fell last year Inflation, I guess? Nice, overpriced, garms losing out to essentials?

Cerny couldn't bring himself to say the price out loud

A quick poll on FutureGamesShow suggests about 10-11% of respondents will buy a PS5 Pro If true, Sony has done its maths - PS4 Pro accounts for about 10-12% of all PS4 lifetime sales A year after launch, Sony claimed 1 in 5 PS4 sales was a PS4 Pro (so 20% of new sales)

Editing a video for JULES! and Nathan Byrne, a video game was mentioned that doesn't have a single bit of footage online. Someone has to be the first. The things I do to feed my dogs, man.

I am deeply here for the alleged / leaked Switch 2 design Delightfully unobtrusive and familiar, with no pretence to mimic the design of a stormtrooper's mouth piece Drop it for sub $300, PS4 Pro to PS5-ish visuals, and we're all good

There are only 12,300 PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Editions and they are all individually numbered I wonder which lucky customer will get a number that corresponds with the (yet to be revealed) price?

Hilarious predictable / depressing conclusion to a game so perversely determined to prevent the inevitable