Having fun the only way I know how to: by managing my personal online security across multiple platforms 👍

Belfast Airport serving up light holiday reads

I'm looking forward to spending tomorrow at home, with the sofa bed unfurled and A Compelling Video Game (current choice TBC) to hard reset

You know when you've had one of those weeks where you end it feeling like you've been forced headfirst into a tumble dryer? yeah, that.

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

*Blair is actually a board advisor but still YIKES

Bobby Kotick AND Tony Blair on the board of Skydance. hoooooooo boy

I told you that in confidence

Things I’d like to see: for one week only, a brave game journalist immediately publishes every story that’s sent to them “under embargo” when the PR hasn’t explicitly agreed to one beforehand

alright, big shot

Got a chimney for a head? Doctors HATE IT when you use this quick trick

Does the salutation immediately give away that they scraped my details from LinkedIn? Yes. Is the service completely irrelevant to me? Yes. But does it also get its point across faster than approximately 99% of emails in my inbox? Also yes.

Someone sent me a pitch for 'direct labour roofing' this morning and I have to say I'm oddly impressed by how punchily to the point the pitch is

Makes a change from usual (ty, ty)

Also, here's something wild: Video Games Industry Memo is three today!!!! Here's a list of what the newsletter has achieved in the past three years that some commentators are already describing as a "rap sheet."

He has a knighthood, but is the only person from the games industry to have one (I think total number of video game people with honours is 15-20 odd)