Simon Cox
@_simon_cox
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Fmr Co-Founder & Content Dir. at Rolling Stone's video game channel, Glixel. Past: EDGE, 1UP, GMR, Xbox Nation, Off. Dreamcast, PCGamer. Header art by @JJSignal
Cheshire, United Kingdom
Joined May 2011
Hi! Making art inspired by my favorite games has been keeping me sane this past year - so thought I’d share on #PortfolioDay :) And please do share tweets from those folks who do this for a living: it’s tough out there and every share helps. 👍
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Sounds & Visions: Enhance At 10 – An Oral History 📖 300+ pages 🗣️ Interviews with key @enhance_exp staff 🔎 New developer insights into iconic titles 🎨 Never-before-seen art & photography ✍️ Written & edited by @wireframejames & @_simon_cox
https://t.co/Ch8RgRtNtA
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THE LAST OF US. Legendary artist YOSHITAKA AMANO created this endearing scene of Ellie and Joel in collaboration with art gallery @cookbeck and @Naughty_Dog. The artwork is available via the Cook and Becker store https://t.co/rsFqgFXIBk in a gorgeous, limited edition screenprint
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A little Friday musing... I recently had the good fortune to be able to spend a couple of months in Tokyo (a place where I'd previously lived for 15 years). People talk about Japan's stagnating economy. What few acknowledge (or maybe even realise?) is that it has stagnated at a
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Why gaming is so important to players with chronic pain
eurogamer.net
A look at the true importance of gaming for people with chronic pain.
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Legendary artist @YoshitakaAmanoO partnered with @cookbeck to create this gorgeous The Last of Us limited edition poster to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, and we’re honored to reveal the final artwork. If you're quick, prints are still available: https://t.co/ZryD19cxU0
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This gorgeous THE WITCHER 'Lovers Edition' Deluxe Notebooks Set is an ode to Geralt and Yennefer and their touching and complicated relationship. Pre-order your official copy now: https://t.co/AvGAgQMVga
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Unfortunately, I am one of the people affected by the layoffs today at Epic. I'm absolutely devastated to leave behind so many amazing Mediatonic colleagues who I loved. So: the job search begins! If you need an experienced writer or narrative designer, please get in touch :)
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The huge tragedy of the UK is that for 31 of past 44 years The Tories and their asset stripping short termism has downgraded our country. Decent housing was turned into an unaffordable asset - we have gone from the second most equal society in Europe ( after Germany) in 1975 to
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Hanging these #PanzerDragoon treasures up. I still can’t believe I have this one of a kind Azel drawing.
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Australian Investment Bank Macquarie took £3bn in dividends from Thames Water, until selling in 2017, while piling on debt of £10bn. They are known as ‘vampire kangaroo’. In 2021 they bought Southern Water. Ofwat has failed. Nationalise water.
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Next time you read some nonsense from our Health Secretary about how they’ve made the ‘final pay offer’ for doctors, remind yourself that MPs have had 10 pay rises since 2010. 10. Back NHS staff. They’re fighting this for all of us💙
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After 16 hours in character creation I think I’ve finally created my dream man
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Still don't understand why very rich very successful guys want to be internet posters so bad. You don't want this life. Go pick a random artist and free them to create. Feed 1,000 shelter dogs. Buy another yacht. Breed raptors. There's just so many better options here
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Lot of truth in this piece. Covering this next election cycle in the US as if it’s 1994 -and there’s not a real threat to democracy from a hollowed-out, proto-fascist Republican Party- isn’t working.
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