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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷

@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk

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Curated game news for game workers & gamers I run @LostInCult.co.uk's games label + Marketing Dir. • Indie Mixtape creator • Debug IGA winner • BAFTA full Member • ex Super Rare/Numskull/journo • indies + physicals ❤️🏳️‍🌈 [email protected]

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · May 20

I am incredibly proud to announce EDITIONS - our better, different answer to physical games.

A preservation and design focused imprint that redefines what a physical game is.

All details at the link - shaking with pride right now. This is my life's work. ❤️

Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · May 20

Announcing EDITIONS: Physical games designed with the care they deserve. We’re doing it differently. We’re doing it better.

Our new preservation & design-focused imprint redefines what a physical game can be.

First 3 games available now:

EDITIONS by Lost In Cult

We’re proud to unveil EDITIONS - our bold new vision for physical media. Launching with a trio of acclaimed indie masterpieces for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5, including Immortality, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, and Thank Goodness You’re Here!, we’re breathing new life into physical games for collectors and anyone with a real love for the art form.

www.lostincult.com

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6h

I will die for Pikmin

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 8h

honestly don't know what I'm doing with myself having not played it yet, was following it for an age! I'll have to grab it

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 8h

What are some of your favourite - and underrated - indie games of 2025 so far? 🤔

Being a lil less consistently active on socials for a few months (sorry, working on it!) means I've not been as looped into some releases as I would like to be!

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 2d

Difficult, as physical is already niche, and more-so with PSVR2. That said, these don't already have physicals?? There's no Moss physical? That's nutty - that may be something to explore.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 2d

Thanks! It is not, it's an official Japanese figurine released around when the first game originally did, I picked it up then when I was a teen!

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 2d

I'm going to buy Super Mario Galaxy another three times in my lifetime, aren't I?

A copy of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 for the Nintendo Switch, held up against a backdrop of various video games figurines in a glass cabinet, including a Mario Galaxy figure and various Nintendo figurines

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

It's a new reprint, I should stress I did not pay £100s for it! Been on the list for ages, so snapped a new copy up.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

Idle time-sucker Clicker Heroes has surprise dropped on the Switch today.

(Read more: Nintendo Everything)

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

Lovely album! Regret not including it in this pic now

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

Some recent vinyl arrivals for the collection - Clipse, Aya, Sufferer, and Kingo Hamada! 🎶

(Beach Bunny's new album arrived too, but I forgot!)

Four forward-facing vinyl records in sleeves, including Midnight Cruisin' by Kingo Hamada, Hexed! by Aya, Let God Sort 'Em Out by Clipse, and Sufferer's self-titled album.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

A collector has amassed an interesting display of Nvidia and AMD GPUs, spanning across 30 years.

(Read more: PC Gamer)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

Shock horror, FIFA had no idea what goes into making a video game, or what went into the pre-existing annualised machine at EA run, and thought recreating that within a year would somehow be possible.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

UK workers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionised - the first recognised video game union in the UK.

(Read more: GamesIndustry)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

Éalú - a stop-motion, point-and-click puzzle game where you guide a lil wooden mouse - has launched today, and could probably do with your shares and support! 🐁

(Support the game on Steam)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

FIFA Heroes announced - the latest use of the FIFA license since EA's departure.

A 5-a-side PvE for consoles + mobile.

(Read more: The Thumb Wars)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

Rock Band 4 will be delisted from storefronts this weekend due to song licenses expiring.

(Read more: VGC)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

Funcom is laying off an unknown number of people, in a press statement that oddly also showed off that Dune Awakening was "the biggest release we’ve had in our 32-year long history of making great games".

(Read more: GamesIndustry)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

I think Microsoft might have lost their minds, y'all

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

Xbox Game Pass is getting a huge 50% price hike, with a new tier system.

(Read more: VGC)

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

I am scared by the possibility of a Reform government in the UK. It's very hard to swallow my anger about that, not call people "stupid" or evil, and recognise it for what it really is - rich people, with infinite resources, successfully manipulating and beating us, all of us.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

We do not win as a society until we put aside party politics, we put aside left and right, and understand we are all struggling. The system does not work for us, any of us. It's not a matter of left and right - governments of each keep failing us. We need to fight the real cause.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

I still strongly believe most people aren't awful, even if they have awful opinions. Obviously, migrants and minorities are not the reason you're struggling. It's a hurtful opinion, so it's hard to say this, but I get why you need someone to blame. And those responsible love it.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

The right need to understand, (some of) the left already want the rich to have less control - so, they suck up to you. They pretend they're one of you, despite having millions and you being poor. They cannot relate. They don't care. They don't actually even agree with you. They want to win you over.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

The rich want to replace us with AI. They want to earn more, pay less tax, and force us to pay more for everything.

They want to divide us, and distract us with boogymen being the reason for why we're all struggling. But it's them. We really need to come together on this.

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 7d

We revealed Mouthwashing: Design Works yesterday!

One of my fave games of recent years, so it's awesome to launch this incredible deep-dive on this seminal narrative-horror. We leave no stone unturned! 🥳

lostincult.co.uk/mouthwashing

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