Wesley Yin-Poole
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Husband. Father. IGN UK News Editor. Former Eurogamer editor. Chelsea, Street Fighter and journalism. wesley_yinpoole @ign .com for tips, DM for Signal
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Glad to see our games of the decade series is sparking insightful debate
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The Irish accents in Starfield are... yeah. I'm crying lol
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As I'm hearing, today's news is not going down well internally at Bethesda at all
This is absolutely terrible. Permission to be human : to any executive reading this, friendly reminder that video games are an entertainment/cultural industry, and your business as a corporation is to take care of your artists/entertainers and help them create value for you.
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Riot: “We’ve found that the best way to hire Rioters is to hire gamers."
Nintendo: "Well..."
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OMG, Apple's lawyer just asked Tim Sweeney: "What is Eurogamer?"
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You're all looking at the PS5 dev kit images wrong. It's actually a new isometric RPG.
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This might be my favourite IGN comment since I joined the site
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I’m thrilled to announce I’ve joined IGN as UK News Editor! I'm working with a world class news team led by the brilliant
@The_Katbot
. IGN has done some fantastic reporting in recent years, and I’m really excited to get stuck in
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I wrote a huge, oral history of Perfect Dark for the game's 20 year anniversary.
Martin Hollis! Dr. Doak! Ken Lobb! Mark Edmonds! Brett Jones and more!
They’re all here, speaking candidly about the making of an against-all-odds masterpiece:
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Some personal news: after 13 wonderful years, today is my last day at Eurogamer / Gamer Network / ReedPop. I have a brief break to spend some time with my family before embarking on a new adventure I’m extremely excited about. More on that soon!
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10 years at Eurogamer. I've had some fantastic moments with this team and made the best of friends. Proud of my work over the last decade, but I'm most excited about the work we continue to do and what's next ❤️
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SCOOP: EA is set to make a big change to its controversial money-spinner FIFA 21 at a time of increased scrutiny around the impact of Ultimate Team on children
FIFA 21 will soon let you track and set limits on how many FIFA Points you buy from the in-game store
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Sony making the trial timer start as soon you hit download is one of the most braindead video game company decisions I've seen in a long time. Why not just have the time expire during gameplay, like, you know, every other trial? There's a workaround, but how many will see it?
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Still amazes me that Sony has found itself with the console exclusive on Baldur's Gate 3, one of the biggest games of the year, without lifting a finger
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I've spent the past month or so digging into Starbreeze's dramatic collapse. How did it all go wrong so quickly? This feature is an attempt to find out.
The fall of Starbreeze, according to the people who lived through it
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When Summer Game Fest is finished what I will remember is Hideo Kojima talked about 9/11 and Giancarlo Esposito talked about Hitler
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Someone from Poland has launched a $240,000 IndieGoGo to take video game publishers to court over microtransactions and it's all sorts of crazy
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pirates in flap over eye patch
Mass Effect Andromeda pirates can't get updated faces, as patch updates Denuvo on the quiet:
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some personal news
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I've been working on getting this interview for ages, and is afaik the first time in recent years an EA exec has been directly challenged on FIFA's loot boxes. Fair play to EA for stepping up for an interview with me on this topic, which I obviously have strong feelings about
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A day after the credibility of our profession takes a huge knock with the IGN plagiarism disaster, Kotaku publishes an investigation of the highest order. For all the cynicism and ethics in game journalism crap, we truly are in the golden age of video game journalism
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God this is grim. To say 'we can't control what people do in our games' is cowardly. It's literally your house. Make it safe
Alright, I’m done. DONE.
I deleted my kids’ Roblox accounts, and recommend you guys do too.
I just spent six hours playing the games meant for 5-year-olds and it was freaking awful.
Something is very wrong with Roblox Corp.
Screenshots/video to follow.
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Delighted to announce a Eurogamer paid work experience programme for ethnic minorities! Please apply now!
Eurogamer launches paid work experience programme for ethnic minorities
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EA tried to replicate Cristiano Ronaldo's "Siiiiii" celebration in FIFA 18, made him sound like a wild boar instead
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Microsoft makes devastating cuts at Zenimax/Bethesda, with the closure of a number of studios including Arkane Austin, I can report
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What IGN is hearing from inside Creative Assembly this morning: the entire Hyenas studio now faces redundancy, but staff expect massive cuts across the company
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Feel a bit uncomfortable with people encouraging their followers to attack journalists for reporting on plans that were perhaps accurate at the time but changed. Game journalism certainly has issues. This isn't the answer
Maybe instead of getting mad at Nintendo, who never said a word about what the specs of the new Switch model were going to be prior to revealing it, get mad at internet bullshitters for feeding you a bunch of unfounded rumors and speculation in exchange for your clicks.
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Sorry, had to get something off my chest.
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Got to the final two in Destruction Allstars then this happened. What a lovely chap!
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One of the key marketing messages for Starfield is that it includes over 1000 planets to explore. Now, one player has actually surveyed them all. How did they go about it? And do they think Starfield nails exploration? I had a chat with them to find out:
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As a fat man, fat mockery in video games has always depressed me (The Duke from Resident Evil, etc). God of War's Thor delights me. Thank you, Santa Monica Studio
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All this EA hate over Star Wars and Anthem / BioWare whatever and the real bad thing they’re doing is happening in FIFA, which still goes criminally under reported.
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I’ve been banging this drum for a few years now. Ultimate Team is pay to win at its core, includes ethically dubious promotions, is built on loot boxes and, worse of all, normalises gambling in a game millions of young people play.
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Big news here in the world of FIFA. Belgium isn't the game's biggest market, of course, but you can tell EA's super pissed it's having to do this
EA buckles in Belgium, stops selling FIFA Points following loot box gambling pressure
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respect this tweet a lot
It's the Black Friday offer you didn't expect - Reedpop's websites placed up for sale
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We don’t have a Switch, but my daughter loves watching
@eurogamer
Animal Crossing videos. Thanks for all the wholesome,
@AoifeLockhart
,
@zoe_dels
@IanHigton
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Really happy how this turned out. Fantastic to get
@XboxP3
,
@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
and
@ShawnLayden
in there, but also love the personal stories from
@rhipratchett
,
@corybarlog
,
@Teanah
and
@ralphmfulton
. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years
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That Outriders tweet I did the other day? I had a chat with the developers about it. Here's what's going on:
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really wanna punch this guy in the face for some reason
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order box art revealed (Standard and Deluxe editions):
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When you interrupt NPCs talking in Skyrim
OMG I was looking for this all day - they finally just showed it on MSNBC
Watch her face!!
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Fallout New Vegas may be over seven years old, but Vault 11 is just as troubling now as it was in 2010. This is my deep dive into its menacing depths
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I’d trade my PS4 in to get a PS5 but it’s got PT on it and I’m hoping to sell it on eBay one day to pay off my mortgage
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As part of my new role I'll be working on
@eurogamer
of course, but also supporting
@digitalfoundry
and leading news reporting across our entire network of websites. I'll get to work on developing our incredible teams of journalists, mentoring and celebrating the great work we do
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We deserve this
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This is a fantastic and sobering analysis of the game industry: "The result is clear and unavoidable: there will be many, many gaming companies closures over the next two years — unable to raise capital and thus complete the games they’ve begun (and probably budgeted too high)."
NEW: The Tremendous yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024
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If you’re a player or casual observer, the video game industry seems to have it all. Yet growth is now illusory, layoffs abundant, and game/studio shutdowns common. Why? How might things change?
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I had... things to say about events of last night
PS5 is a surefire hit, but Sony's broken promises are eroding trust
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Atari is sitting on 972 'parcels of land' in the Sandbox metaverse it says it won't sell in the next 12 months. It has declared the parcels worthless
Atari says it may need extra funding to continue following VCS retro console flop and blockchain struggles
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Cyberpunk is stunning. First-person shooter spliced with Witcher 3 dialogue choices in a Deus Ex open world city with a splash of GTA
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Eurogamer readers are excited about Microsoft Flight Simulator, in their own special way
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Tim Sweeney: "It proves not that the Epic Store is awesome - it's that games come first, and that a great game will succeed wherever it's sold. It proves that developers have the real power in the industry, and that where developers go customers will go with them."
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Good journalism is often more about what you don't report than what you do
Just a quick note on how BBC News verifies deaths in order to report them
Yesterday I was assigned the death of online star Lil Tay
A statement on her Instagram page said she, along with her brother, had died
I contacted her management to double check it was true
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The future of video game journalism is reporting on what Xur is selling each Friday and the sooner you lot realise that the better
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Here's my big feature on Lionhead. Hope you enjoy it!
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An "insider" has leaked internal FIFA 21 marketing documents that reveal the push towards Ultimate Team. I don't think this is any surprise. More interesting is putting EA's response under scrutiny. I had a go at doing just that
EA denies it's "pushing" FIFA players to spend on loot boxes after insider leaks internal marketing documents. But does EA's statement hold up?
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Further evidence, not that it is needed, that we should all ditch review scores
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TwoLegsJimmy hates the article I did on Elite yesterday, tells Eurogamer to fuck off. Reddit user asks if he's okay. Then...
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People are saying this tweet spoils Village because it has a screenshot of the boss fight in question. Except it doesn't have a screenshot of the game. It's an image from the film, which, I guess, says something about the similarities between the two monsters
Movie director says Capcom copied his monster for Resident Evil Village boss fight
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When you play Civ but don’t have all weekend
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
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Staff were told the news this morning at the same time Sega issued its statement. The cancellation of Hyenas so close to release came as a surprise to staff, although internally there was concern the game would fail to do well
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Under increasing pressure from governments, children's welfare groups and gambling charities, EA has today added the ability to see what's inside FIFA loot boxes before you buy them. My story:
For the first time, EA now lets you see what's in FIFA loot boxes before you buy them
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imagine playing cod with this on your screen
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Fitting my last article for Eurogamer is a Street Fighter review
Street Fighter 6 rights the wrongs of its predecessor while dragging the famous fighting game franchise kicking and screaming into the modern era.
Our review:
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Some big news for Eurogamer!
Eurogamer has a new Birdo-in-Chief as we say farewell to a beloved friend
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The ESA journalist data leak is a disgrace, and I'm worried for friends and colleagues affected. There is much to answer for.
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Fast, exhilarating start to life at IGN. Everyone's been so welcoming and helpful. And there's a wonderful, energy to news here that's got me excited for the future. Tonight though, a little breather with my family. South coast always the perfect place for a refresh
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I'm so proud of the Eurogamer team, and the promotions are all so, so deserved
@tomphillipsEG
,
@Crazyreyn
,
@Stormscribe
and
@ChrisTapsell
are world class talent and the best at what they do. I'm really really excited for the site in 2022 and beyond!
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Apple's lawyer is trying to trip Tim Sweeney up by asking him about a statement he made in our interview in 2019
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More people play FIFA than EA’s Star Wars games and BioWare’s games combined. It’s a game for everyone, which means it’s a game for children. If you’re looking for an actual EA bad story, it’s right there.
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Whenever my daughter screams "mama" downstairs at my wife, I shout "just killed a man" back and I don't think either of them are amused
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Gearbox's statement also takes credit for Troy Baker's success.
"We also believe strongly in hiring local voice actors whenever we can which is why we're thrilled Troy's career really took off after working with us."
Why are they like this?
Gearbox and SAG-AFTRA have responded to Troy Baker's recent comments about why he didn't voice Rhys in Borderlands 3
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The new trailer for Sex Education series two is hot. Glad they kept the main guy on for it, too
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I do not know why my story about the Dune RTS is showing a Pokemon on Twitter and I do not have the heart to change it
Dune: Spice Wars hits Steam early access later in April, first look at the Fremen faction
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This is a really fantastic video, and helps me understand the "why" for my feeling on Halo Infinite's visuals
Halo Infinite's gameplay debut showscases an open world and dynamic lighting at 4K/60 fps. So why is the internet talking about "flat" graphics? In this video I look at the technical reason behind that, technical lighting design, and much more. Enjoy!
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Going through old photos and found pictures of GAME in Barnsley early summer 2003. Worked there through university, and can still smell the shrink wrap machine. Picture quality obviously crap, and struggling to make out some of the games. First Splinter Cell is top of the chart!
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Larian tells IGN why it won't put Baldur's Gate 3 on Game Pass: "We made a big game, so I think there's a fair price to be paid for that, and I think that that is okay"
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Finished The Artful Escape last night. Lovely, perfectly-paced experience with fantastic music. Was lost in it from start to finish! Well worth a shot via Game Pass if you've got it. Here's my Francis Vendetti
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There's a whiff of Destiny about No Man's Sky's menu screens
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YouTube live chat on this Microsoft thing is disgusting. Game companies should just turn chat off for these things if they're not going to moderate them
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My three-year-old daughter is starting to ask some awesome questions. Today:
What's under the world?
It took all I had not to tell her about all the demons down there.
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Had an extremely normal taxi ride home last night. Bad vibes when the driver said he'd prefer I pay in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency I'd never heard of rather than card. He said, 'you don't have bitcoin?' as if I was weird for not being able to pay him with it. Odd start
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crying
Every few months I remember that time Luis Suárez screamed like R2-D2 and have to re-watch the video at least fifteen times.
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