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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

@edwinet.bsky.social

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News editor at RockPaperShotgun, previously seen at Eurogamer, The Guardian, Wired and Edge - writing about (video)games, art, culture, technology - PhD poetics with a focus on procedural and erasure-based verse. He & him.

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 9d

I would shoot James Archer an email! www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/jame...

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 11d

Nice to chat with these hooligans again. Also nice to rediscover Mass Effect, sort of, and inflict knowledge of the Krogans on Nate.

Total Playtime @totalplaytime.com · 12d

The second episode of Text Adventure is live for Patreon backers, in which @edwinet.bsky.social joins us to judge the prequel to Mass Effect: Andromeda and Nate attempts to guess what Asari look like. Find it on Patreon and Spotify. www.patreon.com/posts/text-a...

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 19d

I should have specified the rates in my earlier post: £300-400, depending on the pitch!

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 19d

Hello - apologies for not specifying before. It would be £300-400, depending on the pitch.

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 21d

Email is in bio! www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 21d

Some quickfire examples: explaining "mechsploitation" in the context of AC6, or interviewing the LOTRO players who organise the Great Hobbit Run, or investigating why Valve haven't set up their own payment processor. I would particularly like to receive pitches from women and non-binary people.

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 21d

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

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James Archer @jamesandstuff.bsky.social · 22d

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f

Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 22d

I have been dreaming of labour in Easy Delivery Co

Easy Delivery Co. is not quite reminiscent of Silent Hill and Animal Crossing, but it's not entirely unlike them either.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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metal flesh express @oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social · Sep 6

TRUE ACCESS TO REALITY GUIDE

collage of lava, mountains, a time diagram, a baby in the sky the word FATE and the text:
there is an absolute truth to all reality and it can be accessed through these means: A CORRECT MODE TO APPREHENDING REALITY AND ASCENDING TO INFINITE KNOWLEDGE

a diagram of an aerial view of a coastal town with a red ring around the bay.

Text: the true access zone. the long true reality - a young child has been born in a village in the mountains on the west coast of the peninsula. a card has been pulled from a deck and placed at its birth cot. but what can we know? a cordon has been set up around the area.

collage of hand, fountain and ring on red glass with text The Year of Access

a while before this year begins a finger will be extracted from the stomach of a young woman, on its base a ring. at this point a real belief is now being made it can be intensely perceived. look for a valley and a fountain. a red plane of glass, behind which there can be seen some kind of new being.

diagram of pacific with a target and arrow and north sea with pacific and arrow and a crate of aluminium packages

text: after the
arrival of the being. there was a cold fusion event and spontaneous cratering. wo long crates lowered into the earth that must be accessed simultaneously.
this cannot be done alone and you are to create a group.

in the past there was a large collision, a sister collision with that in the sea. the silver pit. uncover these during a year of access.

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 29d

To be clear, I'm looking to commission a freelance journalist for a written investigative feature. (Thank you freelance artists for your enthusiastic but confused emails.)

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm looking to commission a freelancer with knowledge of the Russian games industry and preferably some ability to read/speak Russian. If that's you, my email is in my bio: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello there - sorry about this. If you see it again, can you send me a screenshot? Email in bio: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cheers Ed!

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hello! I am, and while we're open to pitches about boardgames that have a solid PC gaming angle, we're also a bit between-the-houses right now in terms of freelance, so I can't guarantee a response. Feel free to email but I would prioritise other outlets. www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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IGN Union @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.

FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB!

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME.

AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.
UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US.
WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US.
SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY.
IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS?
SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ah, thanks John!

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ah thank you!

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am delighted and relieved to see that the Maw has devoured Eurogamer. RPS is skin and bones at this stage - I've been reduced to feeding it middle-aged anecdotes about blackberrying.

(I am only joking - very interested to see how the daily report pans out.)

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 9

Cheers! Explainer notwithstanding, I am always keen to interview more loudmouthed upset art school teachers (derogatory)

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · Aug 8

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination.
It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service
users.
"A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 5

Glad the game catches your fancy!

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 3

If you work at Microsoft and are participating in No Azure for Apartheid, I'd love to interview you as an anonymous source. My email is in my bio: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwin-evans-thirlwell

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you!