I finally submitted my taxes and feel physical pain. So if you'd like to help with that, please commission me.

The home page for website One More Catch, with the lead story headlined: "Playing Pokémon Champions next week? Start transferring from Pokémon Go now"

Lovely homepage ahead of the long weekend.

Movie Magic

I set myself a time limit of two weeks and they are now UP so here is Movie Magic, a card game inspired by old management sims of yore, playable in your browser

I'd love it if you checked it out :)

moviemagic-ten.vercel.app

Parameters for page rankings are so specific these days that you basically have to present your guides in a particular format anyway. If you don't, people simply won't find them. Rank too highly, AI steals it. Deliberately go against the grain, drop in rankings, and no-one sees your stuff. Lose-lose

It's a nice idea, but yes as Matt says it's misleading your audience. At best you'll just annoy people enough to start dodging your site, at worst you'll actually get penalised by Google for doing it, and drop out of contention altogether.

Maybe the sourcing from being featured in an AI Overview is enough to drive some traffic? I'd love to hear that, but it's certainly not been my experience on the sites I've worked with recently

Nice to see a general "how to make bricks" real world video randomly in there too.

Even 6 months ago, the overview simply couldn't answer things like this. We are going to see a similar drop in Google search traffic for gaming to what we've already seen for tech sites, and I don't think there's a pivot that a site can take to continue to make money from guides.

I know that it's referencing and linking (though not always), but the AI Overview for guides stuff is what is ultimately going to take down a lot of gaming sites. There cannot be much click through to the original articles. And as the overview gets better, people won't even need to click through.

This has gotta be worse than buying your kids cigarettes

People want another Concord situation more than they want to see any kind of success.

I've played three hours of it. It has some great twists on the usual multiplayer shooter formula, but it's complicated and not particularly easy to understand unless you actually spend time with it. Labelling a game like this as dead on arrival is not normal, but here we are.

If Highguard is anything, it's a stark look of how negative, hostile and grift-heavy this space has become. Not even two hours after launch and all I saw were Steam graphs, hyperbolic YouTubers calling the game dead while teasing upcoming videos, and then Games Media spinning it all for easy clicks

That's great help, thanks for collating all those. Looks like there's a few that are in my wheelhouse

Jesus, enjoy my massive face I guess

After 4.5 years of freelancing, I'm v excited to say that I'm now Evergreen Editor over at TechRadar Gaming. Been working regularly with the team for years now, but this should allow me to be a bit more hands on with the direction of our long-tail gaming content. New email in bio!

What Are You Doing Phoebe Green · What Are You Doing · Song · 2025

Get to know Phoebe Green open.spotify.com/track/0sMWCc...

I’m Your Daddy Weezer · Raditude (International Deluxe Version) · Song · 2009

If aliens landed and for some reason I was chosen to pick a song that represents humanity it'd be Weezer - I'm Your Daddy and it's not even close open.spotify.com/track/1invJF...

"Right Back to It" - Waxahatchee ft. MJ Lenderman (LIVE on The Late Show) YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

I really, really love this song www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDTw...

My tiktok algo has definitely figured out that I'm going through a breakup. We live in hell

Wanted to watch the original Indiana Jones movies before playing the game (first time seeing them as an adult) and I'm surprised to hear people don't think The Last Crusade is the best one! So, so good. But liked all three tbf

Sticking Fontaines DC - Starburster over the Borderlands 4 trailer is so clearly aimed at annoying me specifically

It's so silly. Rudebox is such a weird time capsule

Lovelight also a must

It'll be interesting to see if Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets a dedicated PS5 Pro patch. Would make PS5 the best place to play the game, but does that matter three months after the initial launch? Not so sure

Her name is Nellie Dog and we're best friends

My mum took her dog for a Christmas photo shoot 🥺

That's right, the answer is Faucet. Grow up

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Psssst. Pop music is so good atm open.spotify.com/track/1qVb1j...

Glass Eyes is a banger