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Dom Pepin

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Dep Ed Director at Eurogamer. Ex-EiC at VG247. High Scores column, The Guardian. Dog person. Intersectional. Queer. Enby. Polyam. 🏳️‍🌈🤘🌱☕🍜🦦

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · Nov 12

BlueSky intro:

I'm Dom. EiC of @vg247.bsky.social, columnist for The Guardian, games media veteran of 12+ years

Previously: B2B consulting, corporate event host, BAFTA speaker, panelist, published author, video editor

Currently: training to be a yoga teacher, writing a games music book, cooking!

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 2h

Day 4 of Covid: tried to play FFT but my head is so fried I couldn't even do a non-story encounter. Booted up something braindead (ended up being FF16 again) instead.

Arms are completely useless, and I've nearly burned through all my inhalers because my chest is so bad. I think Fro may also be sick

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 17h

Day three, still don't have use of arms. Getting tired of living on non-solids.

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to play Sonic Crossworlds, but I can barely even hold a pad

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 1d

I have Covid, and it's pretty bad. Can't swallow, can't really sleep. Going up/down stairs does me in for about 30 minutes.

Worst thing is I have almost completely lost the use of my arms?? I think the ache comes from where I've had my Covid jabs in previous years.

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 2d

I am so so so so sick. But I have a very brave guard dog

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 2d

Very funny that "watch em spit roast your best friend" is pretty much exactly what Digimon went on to capitalise on

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · 2d

Pokemon Red and Blue ad (1998)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokemon Red and Blue ad
Gamefreak
Gameboy
1998

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 2d

Stay safe out there, kids, this thing hasn't gone away

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 2d

Like the cleaning of a house, it never ends

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! For something we cobbled together from a couple of bad shops and what I had in my cupboards, I'm pretty happy with it- I think the hikari miso did a lot of the heavy lifting

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 4d

Well, technically soba

Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 4d

Got some new ramen bowls, so vegan ramen date night w/ smoked tofu, pickles, miso and chili broth, and garlic +sesame broccoli

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 4d

Good advice in the local

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 4d

the best pop album of the last ten years is actually 'future nostalgia' by dua lipa

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 5d

Stealth MegaTen article

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 5d

Digimon Time Stranger reminds me of the best (and worst) of PS2 era RPGs, and that's why I can't put it down

www.eurogamer.net/digimon-time...

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 5d

Great work by @connormakar.bsky.social here

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 5d

EA's takeover, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, and "vanity mega projects": Human Rights Watch assesses the impact of gaming's latest controversy

www.eurogamer.net/eas-takeover...

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again!

Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..."

Let's talk about revolution.

www.eurogamer.net/the-revoluti...

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times

Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

www.eurogamer.net

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 7d

Here's my vibe check from my time at Tokyo Game Show 2025, which was a complete 180 from the last time I attended the show, and just shows a Japan back at the absolute centre of the video games world.
www.eurogamer.net/as-the-weste...

As the Western games industry sprials, TGS 2025 showed Japan is resurgent - though you might not recognize that over live streams

You really get the impression that this country's industry is once again happy, confident, and building.

www.eurogamer.net

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 8d

Can't remember where I read it, but I saw someone say "AI is this generation's asbestos and we'll be weeding it out of everything it touched in generations to come" and I just can't stop thinking about that

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 8d

Now that I've read that basically the entire US economy as we know it is being propped up by the AI bubble, it makes all the desperate hack job attempts at justifying its use just seem a bit funny and a bit sad

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 8d

Capitalism is a disease and I think it's terminal

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’

In a combative speech, the prime minister will pledge to raise living standards and ‘face down’ threats of a volatile world

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 9d

Very funny that Affinity is basically the Abstergo logo there

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 9d

EA privately acquired in $55bn deal by group of investors, including Saudi Arabia's investment fund and Donald Trump's son-in-law

www.eurogamer.net/ea-privately...

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Grey Abandon @greyabandon.bsky.social · 11d

E.A. SPORTS. IT'S IN THE HAGUE.

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 10d

What's the best Ursula K Le Guin book?

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 11d

God I'm so so jealous, been wanting to see em live since I was 14, and never been able to make it to the States to see do it

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Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social · 11d

I think it's my favourite film I've seen this year, and proves that Key is really versatile, even if he's basically just playing himself again