Essential reading from Chris Plante on this most strange yet increasingly familiar day of games news polygon.com/opinion/446844…

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Go and support some excellent people. Rosalie ✨ Anurag Singh It's Skyblaze, Kupo Jitendra Soni joel

I would pay £160 to see Pearl Jam again if Eddie Vedder promised not to wear this hat.

Twitter is just one big Astro spoiler right now and I both love it and must avoid it at all costs.

Started Shadow of the Tomb Raider this weekend - easily my fav of the reboot trilogy. Much more confident and self-assured game than it's predecessors, which tried to be a bit of everything and struggled with identity. This *knows* it's a jungle Tomb Raider and has fun with it.

When your inbox is telling you it can't send any more emails because you've sent too many today maybe the universe is telling you to chill.

Oof.

PS5 Pro has a 45% more powerful GPU, meaning it could run PlayStation VR2 games at higher frame rate or resolution if developers release patches: uploadvr.com/playstation-5-…

Okay so no joke, TIL Google Workspace has serious limits on how many emails you can send and you are going to mess up at least 24 hours of work if you go over it. Apologies to anyone waiting on responses from me today!

Meanwhile in Springfield

Very exctied for Mannequin's full release tomorrow! This team has poured everything into this game and it really shows. I jumped into the Infected Mode earlier this week and it's such a great take on the mode that turns the game on its head.

Unrelated: more news on XR Indies & Friends *very* soon 👀

Another flat screen hit comes to VR! Looking forward to what Curve Digital & No Brakes Games bring to Quest, PC VR, and PS VR2 with Human Fall Flat VR 💥

Sayem is one of the best, most profesh in the biz and achieved stuff at Dexerto that would make most editors' jaws drop. He'd be a huge credit to any team and you shouldn't miss him.

There is a lot of good people at nDreams, people who've done some fantastic work across VR gaming. Please keep them in mind if you have any jobs going

I am not ready to discuss how many times I have missed the coin box at the end of every Astro level.

During a brtual time for games I'm so glad we're getting Plucky Squire and Astro as a kind of one-two hit of wholesome goodness that remind us *why* we love this meatgrinder of an industry. Looking forward to digging in tonight.