Mark Warren
@markwarren.bsky.social
Senior Staff Writer at Rock Paper Shotgun. Formerly VG247. Still difficult to replace with a Bop It.
My blog, Low Poly Mess, has plateaued. It currently makes £47 a month, but after fees I'd be surprised if I break even. If you hate it, fair enough, but if you enjoy reading it, I'd love your support (financial or spreading the word). I guess it's a hard sell, but I know it has fans! lowpolymess.com
Low Poly Mess
A sideways look at the video games industry and a variety of other things.
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Sources say Black Flag's fired him from a cannon into another ship game www.rockpapershotgun.com/goin-assassi...
Goin’ (Assassin’s Creed) Rogue, the ship-heavy Black Flag follow-up I totally missed while farting about in France
After reviewing Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, I've played Assassin’s Creed Rogue for the first time.
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Had a crack at digging into just how different a landscape to New Vegas the new Obsidian Fallout faces emerging into, and why it's far from as a simple as NV2=easy success and a licence to print money
Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 4w ago
Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...
Welcome to Respec: A word from the Editors | Respec
Welcome to our new little corner of the internet. Why a new video game website, and why now? Allow us to explain...
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Big news! @apzonerunner.com and I have launched a new video games website. @respec.net is our attempt to create a highly curated multi-format site that has that club feel you used to get from the best magazines (and frankly, my beloved VideoGamer back in the day) www.respec.net/feature/87-w...
Welcome to Respec: A word from the Editors | Respec
Welcome to our new little corner of the internet. Why a new video game website, and why now? Allow us to explain...
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Even news I've longed to hear for ages is delivered with a kick in the nuts nowadays
Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 4w agobtw if you celebrate this because you want a new vegas 2 and feel what has happened to Obsidian is a reasonable price to pay to get it, I hope you eat shit
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It's time to go now,
Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite its additions and tweaks being hit and miss, Black Flag Resynced’s still at its best when Kenway’s at the helm of his sloop, wheeling it around through storms and battles like it’s a Vauxhall Corsa with gunpowder-lined subwoofers. Our review: https://bit.ly/3SPOviO
My newsletter has hit a brick wall in terms of subs and paying members. Both have hardly moved in about three weeks. If you follow me, please take a look at last week's and consider signing up to receive this week's on Thursday lowpolymess.com/15-kid-talk/
#15 - Kid talk
Summer is here, as I can confirm by the uncomfortable dampness in my office chair. When temperatures start to rise it’s time for one thing: big fans. But it’s also the season of summer fairs. If there...
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Read this. You might enjoy it, you might not. Either way the number goes up and I become slightly happier. I've been conditioned to only find contentment through the number going up. Please make the number go up. Number go up. lowpolymess.com/13-lost/
#13 - Lost
We'd been walking in the mid-day sun for almost an hour. Six of us, including three kids, all near the point of giving up. Except there's no giving up in a maze - we’d just be stuck there. Sure, given...
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Update: James Bond rights holders Amazon MGM say they have "a great relationship" with 007 First Light devs IO Interactive, but that it's "still too early to discuss future projects"
Bond rights holders Amazon MGM have "a great relationship" with 007 First Light devs IO Interactive, but say it's "still too early to discuss future projects"
007 First Light follow-ups won't be published by IO Interactive, instead being "done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios",
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Shocked & heartbroken to say Team17 PR & Events dept & thus my role have been made redundant. ✨Looking for new roles using my 15 years supporting projects & brands across Marketing, PR, Brand & Comms✨ I appreciate any help that comes my way. Dhia libh uilig💚 (More info in post under this)
Lads, is it the fascism to mildly criticise a billionaire for reportedly treating one of his employees in a manner that seems from the currently available evidence to have been unnecessarily harsh, while also acknowledging that payment processors influencing where nsfw games can live is also bad
Heya folks, I am really excited that for the first time ever @startmenu.bsky.social will have a writer representing us at SGF. Brandon is lovely and I am trying to get him in contact with as many cool folks as possible. If you are happy to say hi to him let me know!
Brandon Craw 🔜 PAX West@brandoncraw.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey everyone! Probably said it earlier, but I'm going to my first ever Summer Game Fest thanks to @lexluddy.xyz and @startmenu.bsky.social! If you have any tips or if you'll be there, I'd love to meet and chat! I want to take in and learn as much as I can
Last push for this today now the US is awake. I write about stuff and things in a weekly newsletter. It's free to read, but I'd really like it to pay for itself through paid subs. If you enjoy it, put your money where your eyes read. This week it's about a bowl lowpolymess.com/12-retail-th...
#12 - Retail therapy
I’ve had to be more careful about spending money since I lost my job, limiting my purchases of branded baked beans to special occasions only, buying porridge from Lidl, going ad-supported on a number ...
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I've not finished it yet, so have some utter filth
Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 2mo agoI think at this point I'd trust Pato O'Ward to have a 1953 Morris Minor with 100k miles on the clock in contention to win the Indy 500
Dang, I can't hang with the Wang in Zero Parades, so ZA/UM's thought violation gun won't stop going bang www.rockpapershotgun.com/dang-i-cant-...
