Lewis Packwood
@lewispackwood.bsky.social
Features Editor for GamesIndustry.biz. Author of Curious Video Game Machines and The Art of Still Wakes the Deep. Previously freelancer for The Guardian, Edge, Retro Gamer, etc. Portfolio: https://lewispackwood.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think @kaizengameworks.com and this chap should get together and make some wonderful apparel :)
I designed a New Kei Truck Shirt. If you like dozens of us, believe that the best trucks are small trucks, this is the shirt for you. I've also reissued my NICE SHIRT kei truck design. Both are available for 24h only at theyetee.com #keitrucksNA
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I think @kaizengameworks.com and this chap should get together and make some wonderful apparel :)
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I’ve been so busy on GIbiz recently that I’ve barely had time to post anything on social media. But we’ve had some cracking features recently, so I thought I’d highlight a few, starting with this illuminating interview with IO Interactive head Hakan Abrak.
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
The Big IO Interactive Interview: Hakan Abrak on James Bond, Dispatch, and the GTA 6 delay
Plus, the IO Interactive CEO explains why keeping teams small and engaged is behind the developer's success
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’ve been so busy on GIbiz recently that I’ve barely had time to post anything on social media. But we’ve had some cracking features recently, so I thought I’d highlight a few, starting with this illuminating interview with IO Interactive head Hakan Abrak.
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
I’ve been so busy on GIbiz recently that I’ve barely had time to post anything on social media. But we’ve had some cracking features recently, so I thought I’d highlight a few, starting with this illuminating interview with IO Interactive head Hakan Abrak.
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
The Big IO Interactive Interview: Hakan Abrak on James Bond, Dispatch, and the GTA 6 delay
Plus, the IO Interactive CEO explains why keeping teams small and engaged is behind the developer's success
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’ve been so busy on GIbiz recently that I’ve barely had time to post anything on social media. But we’ve had some cracking features recently, so I thought I’d highlight a few, starting with this illuminating interview with IO Interactive head Hakan Abrak.
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-io-i...
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Today is the day to tell a strange story.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Glad someone followed up on @jon.inkle.co's posts about this! Great job @lilchopshopgal.bsky.social:
How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated
Inkle's Jon Ingold on how Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game.
www.eurogamer.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Glad someone followed up on @jon.inkle.co's posts about this! Great job @lilchopshopgal.bsky.social:
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Heaven's Vault started out as a Doctor Who game
jokes aside as popeye enters public domain a reminder we got mario and donkey kong because nintendo couldn't use popeye and bluto, like star wars happened because lucas was denied making a flash gordon movie
let corpos denying you recycling their stuff drive you to do better new stuff that's yours
let corpos denying you recycling their stuff drive you to do better new stuff that's yours
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Heaven's Vault started out as a Doctor Who game
Did a double take here thinking this was Ant and Dec
Last month they mentioned that the PS6 chipset was still in simulation so 2027 may be a bit too optimistic unless they can churn out an ASIC in no time arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/... (unless I misunderstood what they meant?)
AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
Project Amethyst focuses on efficient machine learning, new compression techniques.
arstechnica.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Did a double take here thinking this was Ant and Dec
Man, with all this Arc Raiders review shenanigans, Chris Bratt feels like a lifetime ago.
Can we go back to the simpler, happier Chris Bratt days?
Can we go back to the simpler, happier Chris Bratt days?
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Man, with all this Arc Raiders review shenanigans, Chris Bratt feels like a lifetime ago.
Can we go back to the simpler, happier Chris Bratt days?
Can we go back to the simpler, happier Chris Bratt days?
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
Ten years? Bloody hell.
Ten years ago, Lara Croft set out into the Siberian wilderness to embark on a Tomb Raiding expedition in Rise of the Tomb Raider. 🏔️
Celebrate the 10th anniversary. Play TODAY: tombraider.com/products/games/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-20-year-celebration
#TombRaider
Celebrate the 10th anniversary. Play TODAY: tombraider.com/products/games/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-20-year-celebration
#TombRaider
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ten years? Bloody hell.
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Great game journalism in these pages. Support this worthy project. Honored to have contributed in the past!
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A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6
The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!
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November 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Great game journalism in these pages. Support this worthy project. Honored to have contributed in the past!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
Just arrived back at Leeds Bradford Airport, where a women was escorted off the plane by the police, and Roy Chubby Brown got into the taxi ahead of me.
Already missing DevGAMM Portugal 🇵🇹
Already missing DevGAMM Portugal 🇵🇹
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just arrived back at Leeds Bradford Airport, where a women was escorted off the plane by the police, and Roy Chubby Brown got into the taxi ahead of me.
Already missing DevGAMM Portugal 🇵🇹
Already missing DevGAMM Portugal 🇵🇹
They found a hard-to-reproduce game-breaking bug right at the very last moment - this is sheer nightmare fuel for game developers and marketers everywhere.
Anime-inspired rhythm game Unbeatable has been delayed to December, hours before its launch. gameinformer.com/2025/11/05/a...
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
They found a hard-to-reproduce game-breaking bug right at the very last moment - this is sheer nightmare fuel for game developers and marketers everywhere.
This person chose chaos.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This person chose chaos.
Lovely feature here from @chrissutcliffe.bsky.social - indies, take note!
Events, ads, influencers or something else? A look at cost-effective marketing for smaller publishers.
www.gamesindustry.biz/which-market...
www.gamesindustry.biz/which-market...
Which marketing channel provides the best return on investment for small publishers?
Faced with tight marketing budgets, small game publishers must maximise their return on advertising investment (ROIA) –…
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Lovely feature here from @chrissutcliffe.bsky.social - indies, take note!
This a great idea! Please spread the word :)
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This a great idea! Please spread the word :)
Well that’s really interesting - and it gives hope that all those games lost in legal limbo could potentially be reissued.
note the legals: LRG's using Japan's arbitration system for orphaned games to reissue Little Samson—if you can demonstrate that you've made a genuine effort to contact/identify a potential rights owner to no avail, you can legally commercialise an old game by paying royalties to the JP govt, which…
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Well that’s really interesting - and it gives hope that all those games lost in legal limbo could potentially be reissued.
EGX has long since been absorbed into MCM Comic Con, and the number of games on show is now tiny compared to years gone by. But I’m pleased to say the Leftfield Collection still survives, and as ever, it was a highlight of the show. 1/5
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EGX has long since been absorbed into MCM Comic Con, and the number of games on show is now tiny compared to years gone by. But I’m pleased to say the Leftfield Collection still survives, and as ever, it was a highlight of the show. 1/5
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one of my favourite goofs—if there was one thing we did at campo it was Commit to the Bit
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one of my favourite goofs—if there was one thing we did at campo it was Commit to the Bit
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Ok, so real talk...
What we calling this little guy? 👇
What we calling this little guy? 👇
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ok, so real talk...
What we calling this little guy? 👇
What we calling this little guy? 👇
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October 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Can confirm this is a fantastic comic book. I have the below edition - but whatever edition you get, it’s well worth a read.
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Can confirm this is a fantastic comic book. I have the below edition - but whatever edition you get, it’s well worth a read.