Patrick Garratt
@patlike.bsky.social
➡️ EIC of Knowledge, the Edge videogame industry newsletter
➡️ Cofounder of VG247
➡️ Writer, author
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➡️ https://patrickgarratt.com/
➡️ Cofounder of VG247
➡️ Writer, author
➡️ https://linktr.ee/patlike
➡️ https://patrickgarratt.com/
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Overreaching executives who punish staff for daring to unionise.
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Overreaching executives who punish staff for daring to unionise.
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Calling for nominations! UVW-CWA is hosting the AVARICE AWARDS, and we want to hear about your problematic faves for “Worst Layoff Announcement”, “Player’s Unpopular Choice” CEO, and more!
Please submit your votes here by 11:59pm PT Dec 5th!
Please submit your votes here by 11:59pm PT Dec 5th!
UVW "The Avarice Awards" Show - Players' Choice Awards Votes
We want your input on some of our prospective awards for the UVW's "The Avarice Awards" show, broadcasting live on Dec 10th at 7pm PT & 10pm ET, on UVW-CWA's Twitch Channel!
"The Avarice Awards" sho...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Calling for nominations! UVW-CWA is hosting the AVARICE AWARDS, and we want to hear about your problematic faves for “Worst Layoff Announcement”, “Player’s Unpopular Choice” CEO, and more!
Please submit your votes here by 11:59pm PT Dec 5th!
Please submit your votes here by 11:59pm PT Dec 5th!
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"The industry's finest sustainable storyteller" is an appellation that we'll wear with pride. Thank you, @jeremypeel.bsky.social and the Edge team, for this wonderful profile in January's issue.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"The industry's finest sustainable storyteller" is an appellation that we'll wear with pride. Thank you, @jeremypeel.bsky.social and the Edge team, for this wonderful profile in January's issue.
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Fallen London could eat most other narrative games for breakfast and still have room for more. Just look at everything the team has achieved this year!! It's monster!!
In the popular end-of-year tradition, here's a thread of what you might have missed in Fallen London in 2025, and some plans for what we'll be doing in 2026.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Fallen London could eat most other narrative games for breakfast and still have room for more. Just look at everything the team has achieved this year!! It's monster!!
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Surprise!
🪖 « Renforcer le pacte armée-nation » : Macron confirme son projet de service militaire pour la jeunesse
Ce matin sur RTL, Emmanuel Macron a confirmé son projet de transformer le Service national universel (SNU) en un nouveau service militaire.
Ce matin sur RTL, Emmanuel Macron a confirmé son projet de transformer le Service national universel (SNU) en un nouveau service militaire.
« Renforcer le pacte armée-nation » : Macron confirme son projet de service militaire pour la jeunesse
Ce mardi matin sur RTL, Emmanuel Macron a confirmé son projet de transformer le Service national universel (SNU) en un nouveau service militaire. Une nouvelle escalade militariste pour la jeunesse,…
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November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Surprise!
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Aperture, 2019, Jason Anderson
A luminous vision of urban dawn, this painting merges pastel-toned blocks of oil into a shimmering horizon where a singular glowing sun anchors the scene. Textured palette-knife strokes evoke mosaic light and the quiet tension between nature and man-made form. #art
A luminous vision of urban dawn, this painting merges pastel-toned blocks of oil into a shimmering horizon where a singular glowing sun anchors the scene. Textured palette-knife strokes evoke mosaic light and the quiet tension between nature and man-made form. #art
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Aperture, 2019, Jason Anderson
A luminous vision of urban dawn, this painting merges pastel-toned blocks of oil into a shimmering horizon where a singular glowing sun anchors the scene. Textured palette-knife strokes evoke mosaic light and the quiet tension between nature and man-made form. #art
A luminous vision of urban dawn, this painting merges pastel-toned blocks of oil into a shimmering horizon where a singular glowing sun anchors the scene. Textured palette-knife strokes evoke mosaic light and the quiet tension between nature and man-made form. #art
Be this person.
Bravo à cette dame qui fait face seule à la troupe de Némésis 👏
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Be this person.
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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As a recently naturalised immigrant who has lived in the UK for 15 years now, these announcements from Labour are absolutely heartbreaking. Scapegoating refugees and immigrants is just the most awful abandonment of moral obligation to humanity and will not fix a single thing. Absolutely devastating.
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As a recently naturalised immigrant who has lived in the UK for 15 years now, these announcements from Labour are absolutely heartbreaking. Scapegoating refugees and immigrants is just the most awful abandonment of moral obligation to humanity and will not fix a single thing. Absolutely devastating.
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This Keir Starmer government is getting scarier by the day, nudging us closer to a dark future reminiscent of our darkest past.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social & Co appear to be our only hope for humane, fair and common sense politics.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social & Co appear to be our only hope for humane, fair and common sense politics.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This Keir Starmer government is getting scarier by the day, nudging us closer to a dark future reminiscent of our darkest past.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social & Co appear to be our only hope for humane, fair and common sense politics.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social & Co appear to be our only hope for humane, fair and common sense politics.
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Lost Cove | Terrell James
2025, Oil on canvas
2025, Oil on canvas
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Lost Cove | Terrell James
2025, Oil on canvas
2025, Oil on canvas
FaZe Rug is, inarguably, goated with the sauce.
This is powerfully embarrassing
just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
FaZe Rug is, inarguably, goated with the sauce.
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‘It honestly sucks’: Fans think Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is filled with generative AI art.
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‘It honestly sucks’: Fans think Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is filled with generative AI art | VGC
The new CoD allegedly used generative AI art for its in-game calling cards…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
‘It honestly sucks’: Fans think Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is filled with generative AI art.
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L'Espagne, comme l'Allemagne, l'Italie, la France, le Chili ou l'Argentine, a déjà "essayé" l'extrême-droite, pour reprendre une expression chère aux fachos fachés.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
L'Espagne, comme l'Allemagne, l'Italie, la France, le Chili ou l'Argentine, a déjà "essayé" l'extrême-droite, pour reprendre une expression chère aux fachos fachés.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
Ci-dessous, la carte de toutes les fosses communes recensées des victimes du franquisme. L'extrême-droite, c'est ça.
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Anyone who is coming to this better bring stickers to exchange with me, I just had to update to a new laptop and she's naked!!
We're holding our first live @edgeknowledge.bsky.social event, a discussion panel on surviving the current climate as part of the videogame industry, on November 20 in London. Get full details and sign up for free right here: bit.ly/knowledgelive
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Anyone who is coming to this better bring stickers to exchange with me, I just had to update to a new laptop and she's naked!!
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Signed up for our live panel in London next week? It features @jumpovertheage.com, @itshannahflynn.bsky.social, @newjorg.bsky.social and Agostino Simonetta. There's no charge (even the coffee's free) and it's open to everyone with a professional interest in games. Do it! bit.ly/knowledgelive
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Signed up for our live panel in London next week? It features @jumpovertheage.com, @itshannahflynn.bsky.social, @newjorg.bsky.social and Agostino Simonetta. There's no charge (even the coffee's free) and it's open to everyone with a professional interest in games. Do it! bit.ly/knowledgelive
We're holding our first live @edgeknowledge.bsky.social event, a discussion panel on surviving the current climate as part of the videogame industry, on November 20 in London. Get full details and sign up for free right here: bit.ly/knowledgelive
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We're holding our first live @edgeknowledge.bsky.social event, a discussion panel on surviving the current climate as part of the videogame industry, on November 20 in London. Get full details and sign up for free right here: bit.ly/knowledgelive
If you work in games (or have any kind of professional interest in the industry), then don't miss Knowledge's first live panel debate, taking place in London in November 20. I'm hosting and it's completely free. Sign-up takes less than a minute: bit.ly/knowledgelive
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If you work in games (or have any kind of professional interest in the industry), then don't miss Knowledge's first live panel debate, taking place in London in November 20. I'm hosting and it's completely free. Sign-up takes less than a minute: bit.ly/knowledgelive
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Comic friends: do you know of any European publishers that tend to pick up / translate indie projects?
All suggestions welcome. Thank you folks :)
All suggestions welcome. Thank you folks :)
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Comic friends: do you know of any European publishers that tend to pick up / translate indie projects?
All suggestions welcome. Thank you folks :)
All suggestions welcome. Thank you folks :)
I'm going to be hosting @edgeknowledge.bsky.social's first live panel discussion in London on November 20, featuring @newjorg.bsky.social, @itshannahflynn.bsky.social, @jumpovertheage.com and Agostino Simonetta. Sign up here (for free): docs.google.com/forms/d/1EQ7...
Knowledge live panel registration
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: Arrive 9:30 for refreshments; panel discussion begins at 10:00
Location: The Royal Horseguards Hotel (Whitehall Suite), 2 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EJ
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November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm going to be hosting @edgeknowledge.bsky.social's first live panel discussion in London on November 20, featuring @newjorg.bsky.social, @itshannahflynn.bsky.social, @jumpovertheage.com and Agostino Simonetta. Sign up here (for free): docs.google.com/forms/d/1EQ7...
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Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Crash Live 2025 is in 10 days! Here's the guest line up for the whole weekend:-
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
At DevGAMM in Fuchal in Madeira. A truly awful location for a game conference.
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
At DevGAMM in Fuchal in Madeira. A truly awful location for a game conference.