Oli Welsh
@oliwelsh.bsky.social
Senior Editor, UK, at Polygon. Formerly Eurogamer EIC and Edge contributor. Games, movies, culture
Where’s the good video game criticism at these days? I mean all criticism, but especially reviews of new games
I think Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is all but guaranteed a GOTY nomination at The Game Awards, which would make it the first strategy game* ever to get this recognition www.polygon.com/fire-emblem-...
Fire Emblem Is Officially Nintendo’s Strongest GOTY 2026 Contender
Can't deny the fates
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Resident Evil is phenomenal as a pure exercise in the physical logistics of action — for horror, for comedy, for excitement — the blocking, framing, timing, the design of each moment; perfect. It’s The Thing via Die Hard, but slapstick. A genius approach to the material.
World of Warcraft Forever — Nov. 4 Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Nov. 5 I still can’t believe Nintendo and Blizzard are doing this to me. It’s a personal attack
Mario Kart World may have the single greatest soundtrack Nintendo has ever produced.
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
Mothership@mothership.blog · 9mo agoIt's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Favourite movies of 2025. Tier 1: One Battle and Hard Truths. Tier 2: Everything from Bugonia to KPop. Tier 3: A Complete Unknown, which I enjoyed much more than it deserved
Just looking at the UK film release schedule for the first couple of months of next year and look at this for an absolute car crash of films I want to see releasing on a single day
Anyone out there that bets or trades on the outcome of The Game Awards? I'd love to talk to you for a piece I'm working on. DMs are open.
If Kpop Demon Hunters doesn’t win the best original song Oscar we riot
5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree: