Stephen McNeice

You come for Lula, you better not miss 🎉

POSSIBLE LOVE - the cinematic equivalent of a great novel, just one where you can luxuriate in the details big and small. Lee Chang-dong seems incapable of missing.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

The only way to stop this chaos is for much stronger legislation against corporate mergers and private equity, because otherwise they’ll continue to ruin everything

Finished Penguin Colony, and for all the happily janky penguin physics, it unfurls into something darker, angrier, funnier, weirder. The back half of the game is where the aesthetic, thematic and ideological ambitions of the game really make themselves known in ever-more satisfying ways.

So NAZA is absolutely essential as a document of the Israeli government’s atrocity and genocide machine, but also a smart piece of filmmaking in terms of a simple, effective aesthetic design to underline the testimonies being provided. Raw and devastating in its simplicity.

The You Can See Everything letterboxd rating chart is probably the only time I’ve seen a consensus be *this* unambiguous. (Also: 666 fans, nice)

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

This is the sort of braindead project management that happens when Tim Sweeney spends too much time on Twitter

There's a time and a place for a Hedgehog

I watched my cousins play THE 7TH GUEST when I was way too young, and there was a murder scene near the start that truly unnerved me in a visceral way. Of course, revisiting years later and it was cheesy as all hell.

This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social

In awe at the new Gilla Band album. Been fond of them for years but this new one pushes their sound further and further. Several songs make it feel like your brain is being shaken in the best possible way.

Not all heroes wear capes - some plaster stickers over the AI slop.

Ah, I see Alejandro González Iñárritu is at it again.

Also reported by @gcooney93.bsky.social in the Irish Times tonight that following the team meeting and vote, some players “turned on Bazunu, one of whom is understood to have abused him to his face”

You’ve rarely ‘got to hand it to’ The Guardian these days, but releasing Naza for free on their website later this year is definitely a welcome move towards getting more people to see what sounds like a truly important film. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

Most promising thing about the Resident Evil reviews is how many cite its apparent goofiness alongside the intensity. Good - Resident Evil at its best *is* goofy and always has been, even if the previous films (and some games) missed the mark.

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

Every one of these musicians has far more to lose financially and professionally than Ed Sheeran does, and yet they all have proven themselves to have infinitely more backbone and moral clarity than Ed Sheeran. Kudos to them all.

Ed Sheeran’s statement may be mortifying nonsense, but the fact that he closed the comments at least proves he knows it’s mortifying nonsense.

If you’re careless enough to advertise your restaurant using an AI slop burger made from unidentifiable substances, then I’m immediately asking questions about the care you put into your actual food.

I didn’t expect much from Ed Sheeran… which it transpires was the correct level of expectation. An extraordinarily cowardly act.

500 quid for ‘premium toilet’ access is truly beyond any sort of parody, but let’s be frank: there’s nothing other than greed driving general admission tickets to the 200 quid mark either.

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Regrettably I have just read a Variety article where The Odyssey is described as being “based on 3,000-year-old IP” 💀

Big news: Trump is skipping the Irish Open to attend a Wolfe Tones concert

Running or falling for crypto coin scams grows exponentially more embarrassing with each passing year, and it was extremely embarrassing in the first place.

people have been running scam coins like this for like 7 years now, they've only ever been scams, not once has it not been a scam, and everytime someone launches a new one they pretend its not a scam, but it always is a scam. its incredible

Grail release of Historie(s) (and other Godard films) from @filmsradiance.bsky.social finally landed. What an object!

Every piece of art is political, except for the new Onimusha game which is *absolutely* not intended to reflect or support any particular worldview.

Always remember: the Game Awards is a corporate ad reel disguised as an awards show, and should be treated with great disrespect and mockery as a result. Also: anyone who doesn’t give Big Walk GOTY is a coward.

It’s September

Nothing says ‘safety’ quite like a mob of balaclava-clad men blocking everyday infrastructure

Perfect typo here. 10/10, no notes.

SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

GTA 6 unsurprisingly looks like an outstanding tech achievement, but a lot of the stuff highlighted conforms to the dull, heavy life sim and tediously linear shooting missions that imo ruined RDR2. There are hints of more fun, dynamic open world stuff in the footage but very much not the focus here.

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

COYOTE VS ACME - There’s a throwaway background gag in this where some books in the law office are labelled ‘Anvil Law’ and that joke alone is good enough to justify this film’s rescue from the most cynical act of corporate sabotage in living memory. (Rest of the film is funny and charming too!)

Managed to sneak in a single Duskbloods game and yeaahhhh

Wow The Duskbloods is really hard, even by From Software standards. Can’t get past this ‘logging in to The Duskbloods game server’ boss.

This latest strongly worded statement is definitely going to turn the tide, even if the last dozen didn’t. But seriously: these countries have already surrendered any moral leadership here, and no concerned letters will change that. Only actual meaningful action and change will.

Lots to like and indeed love in CAMP MIASMA, including the most unlikely of feats in 2026: an effective Counting Crows needle drop.

Is there any functional difference between ‘low availability’ and ‘limited availability’ on Ticketmaster? It seems 99% of the time they both just mean ‘sold out’.

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

You would hope this awful tragedy - a man’s death after a relentless media witch hunt - would lead the toxic British press to do some self-reflection. But we all know it won’t.

BREAKING: Netflix is shutting down two of its game studios (only one left beyond its central team) - Moonloot, which hadn't released a game - Night School (Oxenfree), which just released the thriller Unhinged Netflix says it still see games as an "opportunity" www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-cl...

The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks