Hit Points by Nathan Brown
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Hit Points by Nathan Brown
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A newsletter about the game industry, by consultant, writer and former Edge editor Nathan Brown.

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Picross on a big telly is one of life’s great luxuries.
January 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Hit Points by Nathan Brown
A newsletter about video games and the game industry, from writer, consultant and former Edge editor Nathan Brown
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December 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I often kick an idea around for ages but never write them because I doubt it'll resonate with people. I must stop doing that because this — on how test match cricket is secretly the perfect Roguelike — got more love this year than anything else I wrote: newsletter.hitpoints.co/345-from-the...
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
On the folly of pretending games are a single, $200bn industry: newsletter.hitpoints.co/298-carve-it...
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trying, and mostly failing, to make sense of the 770-odd games shown at not-E3 2025: newsletter.hitpoints.co/320-sensory-...
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reaction to Microsoft's latest bit of shit-the-bed horror, when it shuttered more studios and cancelled more games back in July: newsletter.hitpoints.co/324-going-da...
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Synology rowed back on that policy AFAIK but still, the omens aren't great. I went with Ugreen and have been v happy with it (plus they're often on sale). You can indeed start with one drive then pick up another and set up a RAID1 pool without losing data
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM