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TOM FRANCIS
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Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.

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Tom’s Timer 5

The Bone Queen And The Frost Bishop: Playtesting Scavenger Chess In Plasticine

Gridcannon: A Single Player Game With Regular Playing Cards

Dad And The Egg Controller

A Leftfield Solution To An XCOM Disaster

Rewarding Creative Play Styles In Hitman

Postcards From Far Cry Primal

Solving XCOM’s Snowball Problem

Kill Zone And Bladestorm

An Idea For More Flexible Indie Game Awards

What Works And Why: Multiple Routes In Deus Ex

Naming Drugs Honestly In Big Pharma

Writing vs Programming

Let Me Show You How To Make A Game

What Works And Why: Nonlinear Storytelling In Her Story

What Works And Why: Invisible Inc

Our Super Game Jam Episode Is Out

What Works And Why: Sauron’s Army

Showing Heat Signature At Fantastic Arcade And EGX

What I’m Working On And What I’ve Done

The Formula For An Episode Of Murder, She Wrote

Improving Heat Signature’s Randomly Generated Ships, Inside And Out

Raising An Army Of Flying Dogs In The Magic Circle

Floating Point Is Out! And Free! On Steam! Watch A Trailer!

Drawing With Gravity In Floating Point

What’s Your Fault?

The Randomised Tactical Elegance Of Hoplite

Here I Am Being Interviewed By Steve Gaynor For Tone Control

A Story Of Heroism In Alien Swarm

One Desperate Battle In FTL

To Hell And Back In Spelunky

Gunpoint Development Breakdown

My Short Story For The Second Machine Of Death Collection

Not Being An Asshole In An Argument

Playing Skyrim With Nothing But Illusion

How Mainstream Games Butchered Themselves, And Why It’s My Fault

A Short Script For An Animated 60s Heist Movie

Arguing On The Internet

Shopstorm, A Spelunky Story

Why Are Stealth Games Cool?

The Suspicious Developments manifesto

GDC Talk: How To Explain Your Game To An Asshole

Listening To Your Sound Effects For Gunpoint

Understanding Your Brain

What Makes Games Good

A Story Of Plane Seats And Class

Deckard: Blade Runner, Moron

Avoiding Suspicion At The US Embassy

An Idea For A Better Open World Game

A Different Way To Level Up

A Different Idea For Ending BioShock

My Script For A Team Fortress 2 Short About The Spy

Team Fortress 2 Unlockable Weapon Ideas

Don’t Make Me Play Football Manager

EVE’s Assassins And The Kill That Shocked A Galaxy

My Galactic Civilizations 2 War Diary

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome

My Short Story For The Machine Of Death Collection

Blood Money And Sex

A Woman’s Life In Search Queries

First Night, Second Life

SWAT 4: The Movie Script

Here's everything I've written since 2005

Tom’s Tstretch Timer

A Snowy Ramble On What Makes Games ‘Different Every Time’

Blundering Into Dead King’s Bluff

Unity’s Trap

Tom’s Timer 5

The Bone Queen And The Frost Bishop: Playtesting Scavenger Chess In Plasticine

Five Problems With Chess

Badminton

We’re Looking For Someone To Make A Tactical Breach Wizards Trailer

Void Bastards Vs Heat Signature: A Completely Objective Analysis

Seeking A Composer For Tactical Breach Wizards

Gridcannon: A Single Player Game With Regular Playing Cards

Making A Better Card Feel Worse With UX

Steam Quirks For Developers

Charity

My Week

Dad And The Egg Controller

Heat Signature’s Space Birthday Update Is Live!

The Potato ‘Paradox’

What Works And Why: Emergence

Pitch: Tactical Breach Wizards

Heat Signature’s Fair Points Update: Reacting To Good Reviews

Death is Canceled for Space Halloween

Heat Signature’s Launch, And First Player Legend

Heat Signature Is Out!

A Leftfield Solution To An XCOM Disaster

Heat Signature Release Date And Launch Celebrations

What Works And Why: Prey’s Intro

Morphblade And Imbroglio: Making A Game To Test A Critique

Morphblade Is Out!

Great Moments In Television, 2016

Heat Signature Factions Trailer, Working At Valve

Heat Signature: What I’ve Been Working On

Games Successfully Developed At Stugan 2016 So Far

What To Do If Your Prototype Isn’t Fun

Rewarding Creative Play Styles In Hitman

Testing, Wishlists, And A New Video

Heat Signature Will Be At Rezzed 2016 Next Week

Postcards From Far Cry Primal

The Witness

Solving XCOM’s Snowball Problem

Kill Zone And Bladestorm

An Idea For More Flexible Indie Game Awards

Heat Signature: Infinitely Scaling Vapour Layers

Star Wars VII (Spoiler Safe)

Help Me Structure Some Code Better In Heat Signature

A Tale Of Arabian Nights

Generating Locks And Keys In Heat Signature’s Ships

Thoughts On Fallout 4 And Invisible Inc’s Contingency Plan

Laying Out Heat Signature’s Ships: Snakey Vs Branchy

Teaching Heat Signature’s Ship Generator To Think In Sectors

What Works And Why: Multiple Routes In Deus Ex

The Martian (The Book)

Doing Your Job In Metal Gear Solid V

Natural Numbers In Game Design

I Made A Taskbar Timer To Keep An Eye On Wasted Time

The Killing Decision In Metal Gear Solid V

Being Someone Else In Metal Gear Solid V

Metal Gear Solid V’s Failure Spectrum

A Hollow Victory In MGS V

Naming Drugs Honestly In Big Pharma

Pedestrian-Cyclist Tensions Reach A Flashpoint On The Canal Path

Gunpoint Exclusive Edition Owners Now Have A Two-Week Alpha Of Heat Signature

One Problem With Open Game Development

Vapour Trail Experiments

Spot The Bug

Eurogamer Play Heat Signature

What It’s Like Showing Heat Signature To The Press

Writing vs Programming

Let Me Show You How To Make A Game

Back Up Your Stuff

New Heat Signature Video: Galaxies, Suction And Wrench-Throwing

What Works And Why: Nonlinear Storytelling In Her Story

Tiny Design

Thoughts On Neon Struct

Thoughts On Invisible Inc And GalCiv 3

Why I’m Letting Heat Signature Get Bigger

My Idea For An ‘Unconventional Weapon’ Game

A Day’s Experimentation With Heat Signature’s Nebula Generation

Galactic Zoom In Heat Signature

Thoughts On The First Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Trailer

From Gunpoint To Heat Signature: A Narrative Journey

Thoughts About Praise And Confidence At GDC And Rezzed

Detpacks

The Cost Of Simplifying Conversations In Videogames

First Steps In Skyrim

How To Find An Object’s DrawGUI Co-ordinates In Game Maker Studio With A Rotated View

Christmas Chocolate Workshop 2014

Video Tutorial: Make A Game With No Experience

Thoughts On Dragon Age: Inquisition

What Works And Why: Invisible Inc

Thoughts On Far Cry 4

Podcast Tips: Nick Frost On WTF

Heat Signature, One Year Later

New Heat Signature Trailer Shows Art, Music, Wrenches And Guns

Heat Signature Screenshots

Heat Signature Trailers

Our Super Game Jam Episode Is Out

What Works And Why: Sauron’s Army

Help Me Learn Finite State Machines For Guard AI In Heat Signature

Showing Heat Signature At Fantastic Arcade And EGX

Introducing The Heat Signature Team

Gunpoint Is In The New Humble Indie Bundle!

Update On Heat Signature Applications

Heat Signature Playable At EGX And Fantastic Arcade

Gunpoint Mac And Linux Ready For Testing

It’s Time I Did Something About This ‘Gunpoint Ripoff’

What I’m Working On And What I’ve Done

The Formula For An Episode Of Murder, She Wrote

Heat Signature Needs An Artist And A Composer

Improving Heat Signature’s Randomly Generated Ships, Inside And Out

Heat Signature Development Time-Lapse: 5 Months In 2 Minutes

Gunpoint Patch: New Engine, Steam Workshop, And More

Floating Point Passes 70,000 Players

Floating Point Development Breakdown

Distance: A Visual Short Story For The Space Cowboy Game Jam

Raising An Army Of Flying Dogs In The Magic Circle

Floating Point Is Out! And Free! On Steam! Watch A Trailer!

Floating Point Is Coming To Steam – Tomorrow

Filming Super Game Jam

Beta Testing Steam Workshop And Gunpoint’s New Engine

Drawing With Gravity In Floating Point

Designing Floating Point

Heat Signature’s First Four Objective Systems And Why They All Sucked

What’s Your Fault?

The BAFTA Games Awards

The Randomised Tactical Elegance Of Hoplite

Notes On The Arguments About Facebook Acquiring Oculus

Jerk, Jounce And Rates Of Change

Ending A Space War With A Punch In Heat Signature

Pathfinding In Heat Signature’s Randomised, Modularly Destructible Spaceships

How IndieCade Went For Heat Signature And The Grappling Hook Game

Randomly Generating Simple Spaceships In Heat Signature

The Heat Signature FAQ

The Gunpoint FAQ

Here I Am Being Interviewed By Steve Gaynor For Tone Control

Heat Signature: A Game About Sneaking Aboard Randomly Generated Spaceships

Werewolf And The Logic Of Lies

Game Design: The Non-Stick Plan

The Grappling Hook Game, Dev Log 6: The Accomplice

A Story Of Heroism In Alien Swarm

2013

The Grappling Hook Game, Dev Log 5: Wrapping And Slacking

One Desperate Battle In FTL

Heat Signature, A Stealth Space Game About Temperature

Risk Of Rain: The Huntress Dies A Subtle Death

Assassin’s Creed 4: Treasure Island

Assassin’s Creed 4: Pirates Without Boarders

Risk Of Rain: Acrid And The Mystery Boss

Playing Assassin’s Creed 4: You Can’t Sword Fire, Man

Playing Risk Of Rain: The Engineer And The Shitty Lantern

Risk Of Rain

GHGC Dev Log 4: Rules Of Retraction

To Hell And Back In Spelunky

Assassin’s Creed 4 Parts 1-5: Boarding School

Games Vs Story 2

GHGC Dev Log 3: Grappling With Hooks

I’ve Started Working On A New Game: GHGC

Exploring Eldritch, Parts 1 & 2

Gunpoint Development Breakdown

Clack: A Very Short Story Inspired By An Amazon Review

Niece Vs iPhone

I Made A Physical Version Of Word Game Letterpress

Failing Fast In GTA V, Parts 1-10

Spelunky Strategy Guide: Finding And Defeating Anubis

Gunpoint Half-Price Sale, Edition Upgrades, And Trading Cards

GDC Talk: How Reviewing Games For Nine Years Helped In Designing Gunpoint

Tom And Nika Vs The Necromancers Of Monaco, Parts 1-5

Spelunky Explorers’ Club

Comparing Notes In Spelunky’s Unique Daily Adventures

Gunpoint: What I’m Working On

Learning Unity

Round Up Of Contemporary Television Dramas About Two Women Who Switch Identities

Taking The World With Tourism, A Civilization V Story

Half-Life 2 Speedrun Is Beautiful, Ugly

Five Things I Learned About Game Criticism In Nine Years At PC Gamer

Leaving PC Gamer

Ending, An Interesting Roguelite Puzzle Game With Extraordinary Sound Design

First Time Using An iPhone

Gunpoint Recoups Development Costs In 64 Seconds

Gunpoint Patch 3 Is Live On Steam And Humble Store

Gunpoint Patch 2 Now Live On Steam And Humble Store

Gunpoint Patch 1, And Ongoing Support Plans

Gunpoint Is Out!

The Gunpoint Soundtrack, And Upgrading Editions

Help Me With Some Final Gunpoint Testing!

Gunpoint Demo Released! Pre-Orders Open! Release Date Announced!

Gunpoint’s Release Date’s Release Date

Games I Don’t Plan To Make: Relativity Paramedic

Gunpoint’s Release Date’s Release Date’s Release Date

Games I Plan To Make #1: The Randomised Strategy Game

Gunpoint Steam Achievements

Gunpoint Trailer: Gadgets And Steam

Thief: Deadly Shadows Development Quotes

Gunpoint Video Blog: Story Vs Games

My Short Story For The Second Machine Of Death Collection

Gunpoint Dev Log: From A Broken Mess To A Working Game

Five Hours With BioShock Infinite And Ken Levine

The Calamitous Pacifist In Gunpoint

Not Being An Asshole In An Argument

My SimCity City

Playing Skyrim With Nothing But Illusion

Welcome To Site 7

How Mainstream Games Butchered Themselves, And Why It’s My Fault

Ibb And Obb, A Co-Op Game Where The Ground Has Two Sides

What I Learned From Gunpoint, And How To Make A Game

Gunpoint At Minecon

Why Isn’t There A Gunpoint Kickstarter?

Alcohol

A Short Script For An Animated 60s Heist Movie

Dishonored

Gunpoint Level Editor Trailer

Adventure Time Game Post Mortem

What I Like About Guild Wars 2

My Borderlands 2 Review Is Up

Adventure Time Game Jam

Game Idea: Slumber

The Good And The Bad Bits Of The Newsroom

Memories Of Far Cry 2

The Magical Logic Of Dark Messiah’s Boot

Arguing On The Internet

A Successful Spelunky Run

Salt Crust Loaf

Total Biscuit Plays Gunpoint

Shopstorm, A Spelunky Story

Spelunky Tips

Why Are Stealth Games Cool?

The Newsroom

An Update About Monetising Videos Of Gunpoint, And Testing

Res Gestae

E3’s Violence Overload, Versus Gaming’s Usual Violence Overload

The Suspicious Developments manifesto

Suspicious Developments unveils legitimate rebranding exercise

Huh. That Looks Interesting

Cinnamon And Nutmeg Iced Coffee

Hey, You’re Not Chell

The ‘Tiny World’ Game I Didn’t Make At The Weekend

Things I Can Safely Tell You About The Cabin In The Woods Before You See It

Gunpoint’s Release Date

Résumé

A Snoop At Gunpoint’s Labs

PRESS RELEASE

Proteus

Making Gunpoint’s Save System

GDC Talk: How To Explain Your Game To An Asshole

Talk To Me, Be Talked At By Me, And Play Gunpoint At GDC

Maybe I Should Just E-Mail You When Gunpoint Is Out

Gunpoint Business Cards Render Quality Of Actual Game Irrelevant

New Gunpoint Test Build Soon, Sign Up Here

You Can Now Vote For Gunpoint In The IGF

Justified

Eurogamer Gunpoint Preview

Gamasutra Interview

True PC Gaming Interview

Suspicious Developments announces existence

Suspicious Developments headquarters broken into

Gunpoint Now Has Music

Discovered In 2011: Boss

Gunpoint Music Submissions Update

The Game I’m Not Making This Weekend: Red Snow

It’s Like 16 Ropes When All You Need Is A Bomb

More On Making Music For Gunpoint

Gunpoint Trailer: Let Me Talk You Through Some Ridiculous Solutions

Beheading Gmail’s New Look

Gunpoint Is Delayed, Level Design Is Hard, Choice Is Weird

The Saddest Goddamn Thing

Listening To Your Sound Effects For Gunpoint

The Perils Of Being A Melee Companion To A Ranged Character

My Skyrim Review

Machine Of Death: Volume 2

Pane Rustico With Fresh Rosemary And Cheddar Crust

Maybe You Should Make The Crosslink Noise For Gunpoint

Gunpoint: Coding

The Giant Issue Of PC Gamer

Gunpoint In The Press

Gunpoint Screenshots

How It’s Fucking Going

My Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review

Gunpoint Art Progress

Gunpoint Art Style Mockup

The Escape Game I’m Not Going To Make This Weekend

My Review Of The PC Version Of From Dust

Replaying Oblivion, Kinda Glad They’re Redoing The Faces For Skyrim

A Cheating Supreme Commander AI’s Base

Let Us Mumble You Through Our Supreme Commander Game

Some Incredible Brink Images On Dead End Thrills

M83 – Midnight City

You Can Sell Your Diablo 3 Loot For Actual Money

You Can Now Knock Guards Through Windows

Maybe Back Up Your Google Stuff?

Google+ Is The Exact Opposite Of The Social Network We Need

The Greatest Team Fortress 2 Update

Gunpoint Delayed To… I Don’t Know, Christmas?

Adventure Time

The Shadow Line Lines In The Shadow Line

My Duke Nukem Forever Video Review

Understanding Your Brain

What Makes Games Good

Supreme Commander All Czars

Game Of Thrones, The Shadow Line, The Killing, Running Wilde

Post 500

Aaron Sorkin’s Next Show

Deus Ex 3 Is Amazing

I Like That You Can Slow Down

Good Story In Games

Gunpoint Now Has Artists, Will Be Art

Gunpoint’s Possible Art Styles

Gunpoint: The Setting

Let Me Mumble You Through An Early Version Of Gunpoint

Our Limbs Have Been Asleep

On PC Gamer Lately

Analysing Happiness

PC Gamer Podcast 51: Mine, Part Mine

Briefly: The King’s Speech

The Podcast Of My Machine Of Death Story Is Out

Mixtape: Ten Tracks Mostly From 2010

How Fast Should Stuff Unlock?

How I Am Working

Better Spelling In Magicka

Advice

How I Feel About Team Fortress 2 In Graph Form

Gunpoint: The Mechanic

Gunpoint: Tripping Up

Easy A

2010: The Year In Forty Photos

Welcome To Site Six

Construction Ahead

Old Year Resolutions

Christmas 2010

STARVATION Review

A Two Hour Patch For My Two Day Game

Ludum Dare Day 2, 1:55AM: Done

Ludum Dare Day 2, 1PM: Feature Complete

Ludum Dare Day 1, 11PM: Almost Fun

Ludum Dare Day 1, 1PM: A Working Game

Ludum Dare Day 1, 8AM: World And Movement

Ludum Dare Day 1, 6AM: Theme And Ideas

Ludum Dare 19

ALMOND Review

Why Terriers Was Axed

TORN APART AND DEVOURED BY LIONS Review

DESPAIR Review

FUDGE Review

FLAMING MARSHMALLOW Review

This Is My Winter Morning Ritual

A Minecraft Diary And My Black Ops Review

Phineas And Ferb

Halloween 2010

Machine Of Death Is A #1 Bestseller: WTF

Machine Of Death Is Out: Here’s How To Get It

Gunpoint And The Other Game

Machine Of Death Needs Your Help Next Tuesday

Why Graham, Rich And Jaz Should Get Forged Alliance

Death Note

Terriers Again

The Social Network

StarCraft 2: Single-Player

Pilot: Boardwalk Empire

Valve Steal Sixth James Weapon Idea, Sell It

Pilot: Terriers

Dexter Series Five

Brevity Week

Gunpoint: AI

My ‘Enemies As Weapons’ Game Idea

Postcards From A Weekend Of Premeditated Murder

The Maths Of This Week’s Futurama

This Is All I Can Think During StarCraft 2’s Cut Scenes

Seat Quest 2010: The Return: Origins

Seat Quest 2010: The Flight

Seat Quest 2010: The Lounge

A Story Of Plane Seats And Class

Hyperthreaded Depleted Uranium Turbothanks

Machine Of Death Is Out In Two Months

Deckard: Blade Runner, Moron

Inception

Gunpoint: Making The Jump

Valve Steal Most Of Tom’s Evening

Valve Steal Fifth James Weapon Idea

Day Off

Valve Steal Third And Fourth James Weapon Ideas

PC Gamer Has Been Allowed Onto The Internet

Finally, On Lost

Art Failure

Collision

Private Dick

The Cove

On Second Thoughts, I Give Up

The First-Person Observer

Fresh Fox

On Screwing Around

Making Nuclear War More Interesting In SupCom 2

The PC Gamer Blog

Avoiding Suspicion At The US Embassy

What’s Wrong With BioShock 2 And Why I Like It Anyway

PC Gamer: Spelunky And The Robot Apocalypse

The Best And The Worst Of Mass Effect 2 (Spoiler Safe)

An Idea For A Better Open World Game

Open World Games: What Works And Why

Some TV That Was Mostly Shown Last Year In Some Places

Month In Links: December

My Favourite Films Of 09

Captain Forever

My Favourite Games Of 09

What’s Wrong With Team Fortress 2’s Unlocks

Team Fortress 2 Updates In Perspective

This Week

War Were Declared

The Year In Forty Photos

I Played Through Left 4 Dead 2 Holding A Goddamn Gnome

The Decline Of Mr Sad

Dragon Age Unclear On The Use Of Swords

Reasons To Look Forward To Just Cause 2, No. 13

Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About Borderlands

The Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Is Here, And Subpar

What’s Wrong With Just Cause?

Red Faction Guerilla Tales: Fully Destructible Integrity

New York

Status

PC Gamer, November 09

Section 8, District 9, Station 10

A Different Way To Level Up

A Varied Gaming Diet

Team Fortress 2: Classless Update Night

Postcards From Point Lookout

Abandoning The Main Quest In Oblivion

Moon

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Seven

Prototype Revised

I’ve Got Confessions To Make

Fallout Girl: Little Lamplight

Homelessness In The Sims 3

Burglary Aftermath

Old! Defibrillate This

All Books Found To Be Reasonably Or Very Good

Woo-EEE-Ooh-AAA!

The Team Fortress 2 Experience

Needle Exchange

The Prime Minister Of Sinister

Red Pyro Lost Dracula Again, Smells Depressed

Scenes From Last Night’s Apocalypse

Gentlemen

Plants Vs Zombies: Lawns I Have Loved

A Different Idea For Ending BioShock

PC Gamer Podcast: PCs Vs Ponsoles

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Six

Conversations With Strangers

How To Stop Writing A Fucking Book

Chris Livingston’s Merchants Of Brooklyn Movie Script

Lord I Just Don’t Care

The Nameless Mod Is Out, Apparently Great

I Was Here

Witch’s On First

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Five

Fallout Girl: Striking Out

Interesting…

Can A Death Knight Walk On Lava?

I Am Here

GTA IV Shorts

Keeping The Peace In Mirror’s Edge

Trash Television

Morn Of Brawl

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Four

The Combat In Mirror’s Edge And Why It Fucking Sucks

Art And Motion In Mirror’s Edge

The World Of Goo Soundtrack Is Out, Free, And Amazing

Mirror’s Edge In Pictures

PC Gamer Podcast 24: Admiral Failure & General Vague

Mass Effect In Wheels

2008 In Games That Were Better Than Other Games

GTA IV Shorts: Cut Off

PC Gamer Podcast: The Future’s Dim

Thoughts On The Team Fortress 2 Christmas Changes

Dear Sir

Extra Mirror’s Edge Levels Blocky, Unrealistic

Dead Space: The Right-Hand Side Of A Good Game

So My Vesper Became Your Chariot

Fallout Girl: The Road To Tenpenny Towers

Revenge Of The Psycho Graverobber

I’m Not Making The Plan Next Time

HERO CLOSET

Fallout Girl: Anywhere But Megaton

Fallout Girl, A Diary

Left 4 De-

Right To Live

Far Cry 2: What I Do Like

Far Cry 2: What I’d Like

Far Cry 2: Impersonation Of A Buddy

New PC Gamer Podcast: Eau De Toilette Radioactifs

Far Cry 2 Released, Forest Fires Up 8000%

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Deadly Toads Of Death

World Of Goo Is Coming To Steam, Gentlepersons

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Three

Plan B Is Complete

Multiwinia Mathematics

My Script For A Team Fortress 2 Short About The Spy

Clear Screen

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Two

Retro Team Fortress 2

Sounds Like The Spy Update Is Next

Status Report

Field Studies 6: The PC Gamer Sporecast

I No Longer Feel I Have To Be James Dean

Plan B Chapter One Is Complete

Field Studies 5: My Spore Review

I Read A Thirty-Eight Page Comic About Google’s Browser

Heroes Of Medicine

Red Versus White

Soviet Power

Plan B Is Live

Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume One

He Looks Truly Mortified

Lumber Yard Wallpapers

Heavy Update Thoughts So Far

Relic Announce That Tom Francis Is Right

Team Fortress 2 Goes To The Rockies

Steel Yourself

Vote Tom Francis In The Games Media Awards

Heavy Update: Sandwiches And Fresh Green Grass

Chris Livingston Stops Considering A TF2 Comic

Seriously, Buy Braid

Braid Is Out On Filthy Consoles

Film Catch-Up

Tweak Fortress

Field Studies 4: Vu To A Thorough Game Demonstration

The Middleman

What’s Happening In Kansas

Mirror’s Edge

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Weltpolizei

The Prop Cigarettes You Smoke, They Show Who You Are

Cutting Verses Down To Size

The Sun Is Shining But We Stay Inside

Mrs D Mrs I Mrs F-F-I, Mrs C Mrs U-L-T

I Propose A Less Serious Vote

Valve Completely Out Of Weapon Ideas, Beg For Help

I Know The Commander Because He’s My Pal

Blizzard Announce That Tom Francis Is Right

Regarding Matt’s Location

Oh My God What The Fuck Barbecue

Cube In Memoriam

Pyro Flare Pistol Thingy Shown In Meet The Sniper

Field Studies 3: My Pretties

Field Studies 1: Sporegasm

Muxed Feelings

You Don’t Have To Be An Engy To Work Here But You Do

Someone Already Made An Ubersaw

Team Fortress 2 Unlockable Weapon Ideas

A Riposte To Valve’s Defense Of PC Gaming

Sire, My Regard For You Is This Big

Crysis Suit Modes Revisited

Don’t Make Me Play Football Manager

What A Shame

The City That Rarely Enters Sleep Mode

No-One Drove In New York, There Was Too Much Traffic

In One Thousand Two Hundred And Ten New York Minutes

That Band You Like Has A New Thing Coming Out

A Slice Of Fried Gold Rush

Achievement Unlocked: Typed Achievement_Unlock

Bracing Oneself

It’s A Democratic Gaming Landscape, Bitches

Non-Problems Of The Obscenely Over-Privileged

Wanking ‘Not Inappropriate’ To Government Commerce

Dispensing Justice

Getting Owned

This Just In: Frogs Aren’t Morons

Der Uberdoktor

Jon Stewart On Presidential Elitism

I Actually Can’t Stop The Music

Offlyin’

The Life And Inevitable Death Of Bloopi

PC Gamer Blog: Five Years Of Foolishness

Anne Diamond Reviews Games

Fail Dogs

Review: Soulstorm (Fire Indeed Hot)

There Will Be Country For Old Men In Real Life, Baby

The Far Cry 2 Team

Valve Decided Against The Overhealer

Austin Translation

Preview: World of Goo

‘Meet The Scout’ Imminent

PC Gamer Blog: Greatest Videogame Weapon of All Time

Bill Hicks: Another Dead Hero

Vortessence Hangover

I Eat What I Slaughter

Audiosurfing The Shipping News

Team Fortress 2 Badlands Exploit Patched

Lost, Season Four, Spoilers, Obviously

Badlands

James 2.5 Explained

PC Gamer Podcast: March

Chris Livingston Considering A TF2 Comic

Come In

EVE’s Assassins And The Kill That Shocked A Galaxy

My Galactic Civilizations 2 War Diary

Powered Down For Redesign

New TF2 Maps And Medic Change In Two Months

Team Fortress 2 Update Reactions

Things Round Here Have Changed

My Goatee

Things I Forgot To Talk About Round-Up

GalCiv2: Still Genius

Analysing Team Fortress 2

Deus Fucking Ex Fucking 3

Crysis Week: The Endingening

Episode Two Death Maps

Masq

SO… MUCH… CAKE…

On Rock

Review: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

I’m Not Allowed To Do This

I Played Through The Crysis Demo Holding A Surprised Korean Guy

The Greatest Spy In Team Fortress 2

Hellgate London Thoughts

Beautiful Piano Rendition Of The Portal Song

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome

Pushing Daisies Continues To Be Incredible

Ten Minutes To Go

The Best Three Things On TV

Life Complete

This Just In: The Scout Is A Dick

Not Being A Spy

SO… MUCH… BLOOD…

Weirdly, You’ve Been Tanned – Suspicious For The Winter

Structurally Superfluous

Top of GameTab: Wikipedia Edits From Sony IP

Heroes Season Two

My Favourite Disaster

Quick BioShock Warning

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

British Airwaves

BioShock Review Review

Gollum Beat Box Like You Never Seen

The Machine Of Death Winners

System Failure

The Order of the Phoenix

The Completist: Tribes: Vengeance

Quickly

Cloak And Tagger

Gamespot Finally Do The Logical Thing

The Completist: Far Cry

This Month In Terrible, Part 2: London Olympics Logo

This Month In Terrible, Part 1: Anti-DRM T-Shirts

The Finale Post

Not The Finale Post

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

Starcraft 2

Grrraaahahahahaa!

Mystery Trip

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

New-Album Deathmatch

Back!

‘Iv’

Desktop Tower Defense

Whoa

Noble Jedis

I Don’t Know About You Folks

Infinitely More Exciting Than Anything

My Short Story For The Machine Of Death Collection

A Couple Of Things!

This Is Taking Ages

Best Interview Ever

Let Them Eat Facts

He’s Gone Too Far

Highlight Of 2006

Highlight Of 2006: Previewing Oblivion

Yeah, Me Too

24

iPwn

2006

First Screenshots Of Introversion’s Next Game

Dexter: Series One

Woo

Dexter Again

Primer

Just ‘Cause

Spoiler Test

Not Everything You Find On Flickr Makes A Lot Of Sense Right Away

Posts About Games Writing Suck So I’m Writing A Post About Posts About Games Writing

Supreme Commander

A Weak Russian Sunset

Event-Inspired Idea: Cellphone Breathalizer

I Am About To Play One Of These Games

Dexter

Bad News

24: Drink When…

Blood Money And Sex

Veronica Mars

Too Zune

Something I Didn’t Understand But Still Feels Right

James 1.0

Don’t Blog While Stupid

Should I Hit The Weak Spot For Massive Damage Now?

25th Hour

Porn Shoes

A Woman’s Life In Search Queries

Paris Laptop Consciousness Drip

This Next Test Is Impossible

Found And Lost

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