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Brendan Sinclair
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Recovering game journalist, now simply a journalist.
Context-Free Patent Art: https://www.tumblr.com/contextfreepatentart
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"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" said Jonathan Davis. "I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"
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Korn To Release Original Song For Ubisoft's Haze(TM) Video Game
LONDON, UK - 22nd October, 2007 - Today, Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that the …
www.gamesindustry.biz
January 31, 2026 at 12:54 AM
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I think the incredible pain of discussing the systems and economies of these games to outsiders is a significant contributor to the lack of regulations and outrage around them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 AM
This was funny to me, mainly that the check they used to test journos' ethical boundaries was a whopping $200.
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Electronic Arts Tests Journalists' Greed With Cash - Kotaku
Not one to back away from controversy, Electronic Arts today mailed out real checks payable to game reviewers for $200. Each check, mailed in wooden boxes
kotaku.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Love it when Context-Free Patent Art followers point out context/references/interpretations I had not considered. Today's was a good one.
January 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I don't think I'll ever come to terms with why we spell "rigour," but lose that "u" for "rigorous."
January 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The thing I love most about K-dramas is how they let me escape to exotic foreign lands with unfamiliar problems.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Brendan Sinclair
We're looking for a News Editor to join TWIV. Ideal candidate would have proven experience with:

- Working in news for a games outlet
- Conducting original reporting
- Mentoring junior writers

...and genuinely enjoy writing news, diving deep, and talking to people. UK timezone preferred. Email me.
January 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
I just described a game as "Very Problematic, but a part of my childhood" and realized that applied equally well to various music, movies, books, TV shows, DJs, and condiments.
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I often wonder how the selling price of games like Giga Wing 2, Xenogears, or Tron Bonne actually weighs into publishers' decisions to not re-release (or remake) them on modern platforms.
January 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
This is a bummer. NCSX was my introduction to the world pf gaming beyond my local Best Buy or GameStop. Their daily stock updates were the kind of discoverability tool game devs are begging for these days.
January 9, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Brendan Sinclair
Hello, I'm still on the hunt for work opportunities. I have nearly a decade of experience with business, tech, gaming, and culture reporting for major sites. You can find the entirety of my portfolio below. Please feel free to reach out for any opportunities. Thank you

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Jeffrey Rousseau's Portfolio
Here you'll find award-winning journalist Jeffrey Rousseau's entire multidisciplinary journalism portfolio in one place and stay updated via email as new articles and features are published
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January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Heads up that The Logic has dropped its paywall on some of its biggest stories of 2025, for a limited time. Check them out:
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The Logic’s biggest and best stories of 2025 - The Logic
From the trade war to the productivity crisis, AI chatbots, the war on wine and Canada’s stuttering EV dreams, here are some of our favourite stories from the past year
thelogic.co
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Yeah but the band, tho.
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
See also: Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the destruction of public transit in the name of car culture and Star Wars: Episode 1 on trade disputes.
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Saw Zootopia 2. It gets a few bonus points for having the narrative revolve around a subject kids absolutely know, love, and care deeply about: patents.
December 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yesterday I went looking for some Christmas-themed game-related patent art. The patent database fates decided that no, I would only find this instead.

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December 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It's up there with pinball and jazz.
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Today's Context-free patent art is a whole thing.
December 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown.
December 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
They're planning a "Remix" console that's just a module dock that plugs into a PC and is cheaper for it. Way behind schedule of course, but I'd love to see it take off. The product is great, just too pricey and in short supply right now.

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December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
When I wrote up the endearingly goofy Study Group for the annual staff picks article at The Logic, I didn't think they'd actually run it. They wound up making it the headline image on the round-up. Read up on it and a bunch of other great stuff. No paywall on this one!
thelogic.co/commentary/b...
Here’s what you should watch, read and listen to this holiday season - The Logic
Our picks for the best books, TV shows, films and music of 2025
thelogic.co
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Really great thread which heightened my appreciation of a really great movie.
Alice has now seen “Wake Up Dead Man” which means now I can talk about “Wake Up Dead Man” as approximately one million of you have asked me to do. intermittent live-blog in the quoted thread. gay Catholic musings below:
Alice is finally watching “Wake Up Dead Man” and we are having a great time
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's well-deserved, especially as events in the past year+ have ramped up the difficulty modifier on game journalism of any kind!
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM