Sam Woods
32 | He/Him | Senior Reporter TheGamer | Former DualShockers Managing Editor/Global Head of Gaming GRV | sam.woods@thegamer.com | ITFC ST Holder |
- Dedicating this one to all the chuds on Reddit who said I was talking shit www.thegamer.com/final-fantas...
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- Playing through Bloodborne for the second time in my life and for the first time in five years and what a different experience it is. My first playthrough was my first time playing a souls game and I basically speed ran it because I was terrified.
- Direct flight from Chicago to London was cancelled last night. This was the replacement flight they tried to put us on.
- My last big one for the year is the second part of my interview with Alix Wilton Regan, aka Lara Croft. A nice way to round out 2025, and now my break begins. Two days of Christmas festivities with family, then off to Chicago to celebrate my wonderful friend @peterspittech.bsky.social’s wedding.
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- I’m gonna do something I very rarely do and advocate for myself openly: This year I’ve done some pretty wild stuff, spoken to some amazing people, and broken a few big stories. My role has become less focused on writing guff (although there will still be a little, gotta keep the lights on)
- Reposted by Sam WoodsHellllooo I had a lovely chat with Devora Wilde bout "mean women" and Lae'zel being gay (and Solasta 2 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!) www.thegamer.com/devora-wilde...
- Games media: a rising tide lifts all ships. Let’s source each other properly, yeah? If we all do that, we’ll get some level of trust from the hellscape that is google, and it will help to weed out the shitty scraper sites (I hope).
- Me and Alix Wilton Regan have been planning to chat Perfect Dark for a while now. We finally managed that yesterday. Sounds like, as you might expect, it wasn’t handled too well. www.thegamer.com/joanna-dark-...
- Part two of our chat is coming next week, when we dive deep into her new role as Lara Croft.
- Legit one of the stinkiest TGA fits I’ve seen. Why is the suit so shiny? Why is it three sizes too big?
- Geoff. It’s 3:30am here in the UK. I don’t need to be hearing Miss Piggy singing.
- I love Jennifer English man. So well deserved.
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- Reposted by Sam WoodsHere it is! Absolute labour of love putting this together. From day one, Cyberpunk 2077 has been a story about mortality, and what it means to live on after you die. It was a pleasure to speak with Paweł Sasko and Cherami Leigh about this story. www.thegamer.com/the-making-o...
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- Good podcast. You should check it out.
- Fun little story after speaking to Abigail Thorn. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Nocturne was pitched to her as a “sexy demon” and was only changed as she was in the booth. www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate...
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- I spent a large portion of my day crunching numbers, finding out just how much Nintendo is neglecting marketing Metroid Prime 4, and oh boy. www.thegamer.com/nintendo-rea...
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- Doing my second playthrough of Dispatch with my fiance and it’s great, but boy do the hacking sections really mess up the pacing when you’re playing with somebody else.
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- Interesting comments in here from Horizon Steel Frontier’s executive producer. Suggests that Sony is the reason it’s not coming to PlayStation as NCSoft would have “no reason” not to bring it to the platform. www.thegamer.com/seems-like-s...
- This is great, but the lack of Monster Train 2 is astonishing.
- Introducing the nominees for The Indie Game Awards 2025, airing on December 18th at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @ign.com, @gamespot.com, and @sixoneindie.com's YouTube and Twitch channels. Visit indiegameawards.gg for the full list of nominees, presenters, and judges.
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- Saw Hanabie yesterday, who were, quite frankly, excellent.
- Announcing that I’ve delayed my bedtime to play some more Pokemon
