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Shay Thompson

@shay-thompson.bsky.social

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Presenter, host, tastemaker. Seen/heard on BBC, BAFTA and more

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Oct 24

Hello! I'm Shay, a presenter and host working in games. I was a regular contributor on BBC Sounds' Press X To Continue (RIP) and hosted a show with McLaren where Lando Norris once abandoned me at the MTC.

Shay with the Call of Duty Black Ops 6 cast

Shay with members of the Press X To Continue podcast

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · 8h

like, rah woke is really over!

Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · 9h

Black History Month in the UK is largely ignored by the games industry anyway but this has to be the quietest I’ve ever seen it. No panels, no events, nothing. Damn.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 1d

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t believe I get to say this but I’m going to be interviewing Michaela Jae Rodriguez on the Charlotte Tilbury twitch channel 🥹

We’ll be chatting all things Pose, gaming and make up ✨

twitch.tv/charlottetilbury

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MollyBerry (hmu if we met at gamescom!) @mollyberry.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had the pleasure of hosting & streaming with @indiearenabooth.de at #gamescom this year, and I got to share my top 10 picks from the entire line-up at 2025 IAB. Here they are, and here's me attempting to quickly describe them to @shay-thompson.bsky.social😍 www.twitch.tv/videos/25528... #indiegames

Twitch

Twitch is the world

www.twitch.tv

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Aug 26

do you just… not know what opinions are? I don’t think anything here was presented as fact

Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Aug 23

Considering this is some of the only major reporting on this shitshow, disappointing doesn't even begin to cover it. @geekycassie.bsky.social @frankieward.bsky.social et al deserve way better

Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm gobsmacked at how awful this reporting of Guild Esports' closing is

No mention of the exploited and unpaid players, presenters and talent. Instead, the writer decides to focus on a conversation they had with the *former* CEO for some reason?

www.forbes.com/sites/mattga...

Guild, Beckham’s Former Esports Team, Folds After 6 Years

Just 13 days short of its iron anniversary, British competitive gaming outfit Guild Esports, once backed by David Beckham, has announced it’s shutting shop.

www.forbes.com

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · Aug 12

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · Aug 12

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · Jul 9

New trailer from me! For the critically acclaimed, cool as hell, Neurocracy.

Making a trailer for a game about delving through fictional wiki pages and making conspiracy boards was an interesting challenge, so hopefully I've done justice to a supremely interesting, compelling game

joannes @playthroughline.com · Jul 9

✨ NEUROCRACY ✨

A sci-fi hypertext game

🌐 Fall into a wiki hole from the future
🔎 Solve a murder and other mysteries
👀 Your theories influence what happens [citation needed]

📅 The third — and final — season launches JULY 16!

Check out our new trailer, courtesy of @sammgreer.bsky.social 👇

Neurocracy 3.0 Release Trailer

YouTube video by Playthroughline

www.youtube.com

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Tom Regan @grapedosmil.bsky.social · Jul 3

For this week's VGIM, do video games have an auteur problem?

I sweated buckets at the Death Stranding 2 launch event to find out.

Video Games Industry Memo @vgim.bsky.social · Jul 3

Do auteurs like Hideo Kojima increase the understanding of how we make games, or obscure it?

@grapedosmil.bsky.social headed to a star studded event in London to investigate

www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/the-kojima...

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Indie Arena Booth @indiearenabooth.de · Jul 1

🌶️🧑‍🍳 Feast your eyes - the Indie Arena Booth 2025 lineup trailer is served! 🌶️🍽️

Our Theme? “Watch us cook.” We’re bringing 200+ blazing-hot indie games to gamescom 2025!

You will want a taste 😋

🍽️ Full lineup here: indiearenabooth.de

#IndieGame #GameDev #IAB25

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Jun 26

No because put his show back on the air, I’m so serious

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Jun 23

Me wearing kitten heels every time I go out-out 👁️👁️

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Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wrote about SGF, ICE, and covering the event as first-generation US born person.

Pen to Pixels @pentopixels.com · Jun 11

My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant.
pentopixels.com/article/summ...

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · May 26

This is where I’m at re narrative/performance. I thought it was me being a grouch but I was not connecting with the story at all because of the dialogue. Feels so awkward at times. Humour deffo not coming through either

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Apr 25

where's that racism watch dog when you need it

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · Apr 17

World's shit, am feeling like shit, so if you could take a minute to cheer me up by checking out ma comic I am working very hard on, that would be cool.

There's a new page today and it's even got a robot in it

➡️ iteatsplanets.com/page/29

A comic page with three panels.

Panel one. An industrial elevator arrives at a concrete corridor where a top heavy robot stands by outside. As the doors part open, a three armed prisoner slips out from a crowd of inmates while a one eared man cries after her "Hey!"

Panel two. A rounded green stained concrete tunnel from above, prisoners in various states of undress marching in a line along the metal floor under the watch of CCTV and a towering robot, past a security booth built into the wall. "Inmates, proceed single file." the robot orders

Panel three. Three armed woman down to her underwear, staring into the booth through the thick glass window at a guard enjoying a cup of something, next to three hanging uniforms and lockers.

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you're in the UK, appalled by the supreme court's decision and would like to MATERIALLY help trans women TODAY, consider literally donating to helping my girlfriend to get gender affirming care:

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ishaa...

Donate to help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery, organized by Is Dexter

i work 9 to 5 but live paycheck to paycheck, paying rent for a flatshare in ou… Is Dexter needs your support for help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery

www.gofundme.com

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Apr 16

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Apr 8

the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Apr 2

please not this delay

Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Apr 2

did they just slide in silksong really casually

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Mar 27

I chuckled

Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Mar 27

I just think it’ll be funnier if it isn’t 😭