Oli Welsh

American Truck Simulator: Road Trip is my game of the year www.polygon.com/american-tru...

Lots of people are comparing this to the LGBTQ+ censorship scandal from last summer and rightly asking whether there's a double standard at play. In the UK, I don't think there is. But I must dip into the most forbidden of video game policy lore – age ratings – to explain why 🧵

Xbox Game Studios only has three studios left www.polygon.com/xbox-layoffs...

Where’s the good video game criticism at these days? I mean all criticism, but especially reviews of new games

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

My favourite games of 2025!

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:

New Ueda and an Okami sequel? What is this, 2009?