Just a wee reminder that I don't have a regular home for game reviews, so if you're looking for a ✨ fabulous ✨ critic with a penchant for the macabre and run-on sentences, pls think of me! I genuinely miss regular critique work and would love to find a new home 👻
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Check out all of Vikki Blake's reviews and score history on OpenCritic. Vikki Blake has written 109 reviews. Their average review score is 71. Vikki Blake has recommended 36% of games they have review...
Christian Donlan profiles Jagex.
Josh Wise revisits From Russia With Love.
Paul Weedon explores how videogame music is actually made.
Jon unpacks the modern Metroidvania resurgence.
BitSummit 2026. First Light review. The (extremely storied) making of Solium Infernum. And a lot more.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts + Lorelei and the Laser Eyes bundle now available on Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrades available for free.
if anyone’s looking for a game critic ahead of the bonkers few months coming up, reach out
Hit Points is, somehow, five years old. Five! To celebrate I have knocked 55% off an annual subscription, and waffled on at customary length about not-E3 (and that horrifying Xbox memo). Please read/sub/share/say nice things etc
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Buy Sayonara Wild Hearts + Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Bundle and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official Nintendo Store.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy takes centre stage for the new edition of Edge, out now. Inside, we visit developer Asobo Studio to find out why it’s going back in time to 1333 – and what happened to all those rats. Here are issue 425’s retail and subscription-copy cover designs.
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This is a *preposterously* good deal
I keep thinking back to when Gordon Brown called a bigoted woman a bigoted woman and how him saying so was deemed to be much worse than her being bigoted.
Mild PTSD shudder seeing this one. Turned out okay in the end, at least!
"Sorry folks, we all slipped and fell at the same time and AI accidentally ended up in our trailer/demo/key art"
