Pat Ashe
@patrickashe.bsky.social
Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.
The beatings will continue until morale improves: bsky.app/profile/pete...
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:07 AM
The beatings will continue until morale improves: bsky.app/profile/pete...
Hard to believe the videogames CEO who is still posting to Twitter is still voicing bad opinions.
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Hard to believe the videogames CEO who is still posting to Twitter is still voicing bad opinions.
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Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel!
A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats.
Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats.
Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel!
A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats.
Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats.
Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
Got a new PC and put my old work hard drive in it so now I get to delete nearly 700 GBs of Unreal Engine installs as a treat.
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Got a new PC and put my old work hard drive in it so now I get to delete nearly 700 GBs of Unreal Engine installs as a treat.
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The least Valve could do is to reduce their rate in the first 100k revenue or something, to give small studios with their first titles a fighting chance to maybe make their second game. I swear even Valve would make more money this way.
PC games giant Valve has been told it has to face a £656 million lawsuit in the UK, which claims the Steam giant's revenue share is too high and negatively impacts consumers.
www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-to-fac...
www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-to-fac...
January 27, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The least Valve could do is to reduce their rate in the first 100k revenue or something, to give small studios with their first titles a fighting chance to maybe make their second game. I swear even Valve would make more money this way.
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A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.
Fuck you, end leasholds totally and screw all the parasites who own them - www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Leaseholders in England and Wales to have ground rent capped at £250 a year
Keir Starmer says move is ‘good news for homeowners’ in TikTok video announcing change
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Fuck you, end leasholds totally and screw all the parasites who own them - www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
No Other Choice features a moment where a character say “6-7” if you’ve been looking for a way to introduce your meme loving teens to international auteur cinema.
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
No Other Choice features a moment where a character say “6-7” if you’ve been looking for a way to introduce your meme loving teens to international auteur cinema.
Saw that Zone Of Interest was on the telly last night, can’t imagine trying to watch that film with the tonal whiplash of ad breaks.
January 25, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Saw that Zone Of Interest was on the telly last night, can’t imagine trying to watch that film with the tonal whiplash of ad breaks.
You’ve got to hand it to Labour, never ones to pass up a chance for factional infighting.
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 PM
You’ve got to hand it to Labour, never ones to pass up a chance for factional infighting.
I’ve been emotionally checked out of the Yakuza games for a little while now but god their recent obsession with retconning every death going is really bad stuff.
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I’ve been emotionally checked out of the Yakuza games for a little while now but god their recent obsession with retconning every death going is really bad stuff.
Me in my KPIs catch up: bsky.app/profile/inne...
professionalism needs to die
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Me in my KPIs catch up: bsky.app/profile/inne...
Marty Supreme needed more table tennis and less antics.
January 22, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Marty Supreme needed more table tennis and less antics.
I see the Oscars nominations have been announced and so begins several weeks of having this song stuck in my head:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW5...
Oscar Fever
YouTube video by zeldarms
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I see the Oscars nominations have been announced and so begins several weeks of having this song stuck in my head:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW5...
Anyone talking about screentime or other shite in relation to this and not the fact that no one can raise a child on a single salary or the cost of nursery or other forms of childcare is someone not worth listening to.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
One in four children in England start school without being toilet trained, say teachers
Survey finds rising numbers of reception pupils struggling with basic life skills such as eating independently
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Anyone talking about screentime or other shite in relation to this and not the fact that no one can raise a child on a single salary or the cost of nursery or other forms of childcare is someone not worth listening to.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I mean the general state of driving in the UK is fucking shite anyway:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Driving test cheating up 47% in Great Britain, prompting road safety concerns
DVSA says increase to 2,844 recorded cases in year to end of September is down to more cheating and better detection
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I mean the general state of driving in the UK is fucking shite anyway:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
There's apparently some discourse happening now Pillion is out in America that Harry Melling isn't handsome enough to be in that film which is clearly nonsense but I'm glad I heard about the discourse because it made me go check out his upcoming films and I'm 100% sold:
![A screenshot from Wikipedia, the text reads:
"Stuffed is an upcoming musical body horror romance film. It is the feature length debut of writer-director Theo Rhys, and is starring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling.
Premise
A man afraid of being forgotten volunteers his body to a taxidermist in the event of his death and they fall in love.[1]
Cast
Jodie Comer as Araminta
Harry Melling as Bernie"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m5owids7lf37g552rrdt2i4w/bafkreifezenqnkzwb3jtff4sd4ze5ejqan63l4y4cs4pmekgh5rv3odele@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 9:45 AM
There's apparently some discourse happening now Pillion is out in America that Harry Melling isn't handsome enough to be in that film which is clearly nonsense but I'm glad I heard about the discourse because it made me go check out his upcoming films and I'm 100% sold:
God, who wants to go viral, it’s such a chore when so many people find my posts funny or insightful and feel the need to share them.
It happens to me all the time and I find it so tiresome and annoying.
It happens to me all the time and I find it so tiresome and annoying.
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM
God, who wants to go viral, it’s such a chore when so many people find my posts funny or insightful and feel the need to share them.
It happens to me all the time and I find it so tiresome and annoying.
It happens to me all the time and I find it so tiresome and annoying.
I’m not saying live art is dead but it was quite funny to read the programme for an upcoming season of “cutting edge performance” and all the artists bar one were people who have been making work since before I graduated in 2010.
January 19, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I’m not saying live art is dead but it was quite funny to read the programme for an upcoming season of “cutting edge performance” and all the artists bar one were people who have been making work since before I graduated in 2010.
Someone describing something that came out in 2002 as "Y2K-coded".
I don't think that's how that works mate.
I don't think that's how that works mate.
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Someone describing something that came out in 2002 as "Y2K-coded".
I don't think that's how that works mate.
I don't think that's how that works mate.
Getting my work PC replaced this week and reusing my old graphics card and RAM on the new machine because obviously it would tank the company to buy a new graphics card and RAM at the moment.
Rocking integrated graphics for a week, excited to see if I can even open the game.
Rocking integrated graphics for a week, excited to see if I can even open the game.
January 19, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Getting my work PC replaced this week and reusing my old graphics card and RAM on the new machine because obviously it would tank the company to buy a new graphics card and RAM at the moment.
Rocking integrated graphics for a week, excited to see if I can even open the game.
Rocking integrated graphics for a week, excited to see if I can even open the game.
There is really nothing more British feeling than burning a straw effigy inbetween some waste ground and some static caravans after watching morris dancers dance in a rain soaked car park.
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
There is really nothing more British feeling than burning a straw effigy inbetween some waste ground and some static caravans after watching morris dancers dance in a rain soaked car park.
In the fens for some British nonsense.
January 17, 2026 at 1:31 PM
In the fens for some British nonsense.
Wearing my daughter’s hat for that peak got a MFA from Goldsmiths vibe.
January 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Wearing my daughter’s hat for that peak got a MFA from Goldsmiths vibe.