Dan Stapleton
@danstapleton.bsky.social
Retired. Formerly IGN’s Director of Reviews, EIC of GameSpy, and Reviews Editor at PC Gamer. Dad (so expect dad jokes). Careful: you might hear some opinions.
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Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.
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I might as well just put this out there, but DMs are open if anyone wants to hire a writer/editor/multimedia person with:
> 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN)
> Known for fast, clean copy
> WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability
> 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN)
> Known for fast, clean copy
> WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability
January 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I might as well just put this out there, but DMs are open if anyone wants to hire a writer/editor/multimedia person with:
> 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN)
> Known for fast, clean copy
> WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability
> 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN)
> Known for fast, clean copy
> WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability
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Never Forget.
5 years ago, there was a bloody, lawless, and deadly attack on our nation’s Capitol. A group of criminal thugs broke out in riots and stormed our Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election at the direction of the President of the United States.
January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Never Forget.
I probably should not have watched House of Dynamite at a time when Donald Trump is the person who they'd have to wake up to make the decision at the end.
January 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I probably should not have watched House of Dynamite at a time when Donald Trump is the person who they'd have to wake up to make the decision at the end.
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Ah. Another incredibly stupid year of this, I see.
January 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Ah. Another incredibly stupid year of this, I see.
When I go to sleep Dry January kicks off so you best believe I’m finishing this bottle of Champagne we opened at midnight before then.
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
When I go to sleep Dry January kicks off so you best believe I’m finishing this bottle of Champagne we opened at midnight before then.
For the first time my kids stayed up until midnight for the actual new year. They did great, all things considered.
Tomorrow we will find out if this was a terrible idea.
Tomorrow we will find out if this was a terrible idea.
January 1, 2026 at 8:43 AM
For the first time my kids stayed up until midnight for the actual new year. They did great, all things considered.
Tomorrow we will find out if this was a terrible idea.
Tomorrow we will find out if this was a terrible idea.
One is 17. The other is 3. They’re both handsome devils.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
One is 17. The other is 3. They’re both handsome devils.
Just won a staring contest with my cat
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Just won a staring contest with my cat
I'm so glad they made this Fallout show because it proves that you *can* tell a good story within a game's universe without radically messing with its established lore or completely redesigning everything. It's a genuine "ain't broke don't fix it" approach and it works extremely well.
December 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I'm so glad they made this Fallout show because it proves that you *can* tell a good story within a game's universe without radically messing with its established lore or completely redesigning everything. It's a genuine "ain't broke don't fix it" approach and it works extremely well.
Oh no I've started playing Satisfactory again.
This is very bad. It's the kind of game that pops up and tells you how many hours you've just played in the hopes that you might go talk to another human.
This is very bad. It's the kind of game that pops up and tells you how many hours you've just played in the hopes that you might go talk to another human.
December 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Oh no I've started playing Satisfactory again.
This is very bad. It's the kind of game that pops up and tells you how many hours you've just played in the hopes that you might go talk to another human.
This is very bad. It's the kind of game that pops up and tells you how many hours you've just played in the hopes that you might go talk to another human.
It is kind of insane that the Netflix Yule log videos don’t offer a way to loop them so we don’t have to restart it every hour. This has been a thing for a full decade and they haven’t added that feature somehow?
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
It is kind of insane that the Netflix Yule log videos don’t offer a way to loop them so we don’t have to restart it every hour. This has been a thing for a full decade and they haven’t added that feature somehow?
We’ve done it: we’ve created the robot that lets you kick yourself in the balls from the beloved sci-fi cautionary tale “Do Not Create The Robot That Lets You Kick Yourself In The Balls.”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
We’ve done it: we’ve created the robot that lets you kick yourself in the balls from the beloved sci-fi cautionary tale “Do Not Create The Robot That Lets You Kick Yourself In The Balls.”
Locutus’s Smorgasborg
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
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December 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Locutus’s Smorgasborg
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Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.
December 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.
Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.
December 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.
Threw this together with (half of) a $22 pork loin from Costco and got rave reviews from the family. I was nervous about whether I could pull off butterflying and rolling it but America’s Test Kitchen has never led me astray. youtu.be/DdXvB9F0zFE?...
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Threw this together with (half of) a $22 pork loin from Costco and got rave reviews from the family. I was nervous about whether I could pull off butterflying and rolling it but America’s Test Kitchen has never led me astray. youtu.be/DdXvB9F0zFE?...
Christmas is good and all but have you tried dungeness crab with some good butter sauce?
December 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Christmas is good and all but have you tried dungeness crab with some good butter sauce?
I'm confused about a lot of things here, but pretty high on the list is why they went with the PS2 graphics version of this concept art.
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I'm confused about a lot of things here, but pretty high on the list is why they went with the PS2 graphics version of this concept art.
I'm legit surprised at just *how quickly* Bari Weiss did something incredibly stupid that anybody could've told her would go very badly. I figured she'd ramp up to it with a series of dumb but kind of understandable errors first, but nope: straight to the worst possible scenario.
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I'm legit surprised at just *how quickly* Bari Weiss did something incredibly stupid that anybody could've told her would go very badly. I figured she'd ramp up to it with a series of dumb but kind of understandable errors first, but nope: straight to the worst possible scenario.
Age of Ultron is good, actually.
Also Ant Man is *very* good.
Also Ant Man is *very* good.
December 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Age of Ultron is good, actually.
Also Ant Man is *very* good.
Also Ant Man is *very* good.
It really is astonishing how shitty the support for WebP is. There are websites I will not naame where you upload content in JPEG or PNG that then convert it to WebP, but when you try to upload a WebP they say WTF is this GTFO.
Search for the Google Chrome extension "WebP / Avif Image converter".
Writers can send their cheques to me now for all the time saved. I've been using this for a few years and got in the habit of right-clicking/auto-converting any image so I never see webp images for my news posts.
Writers can send their cheques to me now for all the time saved. I've been using this for a few years and got in the habit of right-clicking/auto-converting any image so I never see webp images for my news posts.
Everyone deserves to spend the holidays surrounded by people who love and appreciate them.
Except for the guy who invented the webp.
Except for the guy who invented the webp.
December 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It really is astonishing how shitty the support for WebP is. There are websites I will not naame where you upload content in JPEG or PNG that then convert it to WebP, but when you try to upload a WebP they say WTF is this GTFO.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't just release a bunch of files on Boris Epshteyn hoping we wouldn't notice.
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm kind of surprised they didn't just release a bunch of files on Boris Epshteyn hoping we wouldn't notice.
