A LinkedIn post, reading the following: After a major editorial reshuffle at Reach, it looks like my role at Mirror Gaming and All Out Gaming will be cut, and I'll be without a job by the end of the week. It's a huge shame, and I've loved my time with the team that cares so much about its output - but luckily for you, this could be a great opportunity for you to add me to your team, inside our outside of the gaming writing world. If you're looking for someone who: 📝 Writes engaging copy that holds fast to best SEO practices to help you rank on Google without losing your publication's signature wits and charms, just as I did at Mirror Gaming, GGRecon and more, 📣 Can produce great press releases and personalized distribution that helps you land coverage in your dream publications, just like I did for Burn It Down Festival two years in a row, 👨🏻‍💻 Can create thoughtful and well-researched features across the worlds of music, gaming, film and TV, culture and more with great experience with all types of interviews and research-based content, 🎤 Can present effortlessly across social video, long-form video, podcasts, pieces to camera, Then I'm your man. Drop me a message here or email me at joekimey[at]gmail[dot]com. Shares welcome (that means please share)!!!

After a major reshuffle in Reach's editorial strategy, my Mirror Gaming / All Out Gaming role is at serious risk of being canned, leaving me without work before the week is out.
Luckily for you, you can hire me now for entertainment writing, PR and social media work!
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Hollow Knight: Silksong arrives today as the sequel to one of my all-time favourite games and instead of playing it for 16 hours before work tomorrow I have to play a stupid gig in my stupid community with my stupid friends

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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I'm not joking I have been scouring the internet for Hollow Knight: Silksong preorder details like I'm desperate to spend money. No other game in history has pushed me to beg for more capitalism. I am so cooked

Alas by that point I had mentally checked out. maybe I owe it to 14 year old me reblogging top gifs on Tumblr to give it another spin

twenty one pilots have a quota of one single banger per album (Overcompensate from the last record is massive)

my hardcore band is playing some shows in bristol come if you’re nearby or else x

This is so fascinating by way of being entirely unfascinating. Knowing this is happening at all is pretty massive, so I'm gonna take it. Nobody come near me on Sept 4 I'll be like a furious territorial dog

Hey cool news i didn’t share here - I sing (playing fast and loose with that term) in the Hardcore band Circumvent. Come to a show in Bristol if you’re around and book us elsewhere. Can’t wait to get this onstage. Nervous, but excited 🏄🏻‍♂️

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i’m really glad i took some time to get off twitter and axe my account (my mental health wouldn’t have survived another minute), but man, it really feels like i’m outside of the conversation with my fellow game journalists. Sorry i promise i’m still here!! am i shouting into the void!!!! miss you!!!

The Elden Ring movie is confirmed but I'm not sure its director is the right fit Alex Garland is heading up a new adaptation of Elden Ring with help from A24, and how the format will adapt the intricacies of The Lands Between is anyone's guess.

NEW FEATURE ALERT: the Elden Ring movie news is huge, but I’m not sure Alex Garland is the right pick for director

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also I'm going to bring back Altopsy soon I'm very sorry I've been sooooo busy being at work and being under lots and lots of stress (generally speaking) go subscribe for free to be notified when I post the good stuff x x x

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hi everyone i moved into my girlfriend’s place and played some more gigs. shit rocks. eventually i will make video games the core part of my personality again but today is not the day i guess! love you

i’m excited to see where you’re going with this

this month has been so crazy and i’m exhausted but ripping South West Suplex in Plymouth with the lovely Tension was a real highlight!! i <3 rock music

📸: Callum Spicer (cspcr on Insta)

actually i do have something to post about - i took my dad to see Limp Bizkit, the last band on his concert bucket list, and it was bonkers. i packed a chainsaw but didn’t get it past security they really keep that shit locked down

i just realised that i’m so far disconnected from any online discourse that i literally don’t know what to post about. is this freedom ??? am i maturing ?????? this is great anyway see you in another couple of months

INTERVIEW: Inside the genius of Sorcerer, and their medieval masterpiece Devotion Sorcerer's latest album is a sword-swinging, doom-laden magnum opus of Metallic Hardcore, and guitarist Guillaume Scaillet takes Altopsy inside its cold and medieval world.

Sorry I've been quiet over here everyone (this is basically the only place left where my gaming journo peers are lol hello) but I've been working very hard - specifically on my Hardcore n heavy music newsletter! Check out my latest interview if u like hehe
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My recap of the best Hardcore releases of 2024 is coming this week! If you haven't yet, sign up to my Altopsy newsletter for free below to have it land directly in your inbox, so you've got some new bangers to spin without having to rely on a pre-established algorithm 🏄‍♂️

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Almost accidentally, Speed became the face of Hardcore across the world, and luckily for us, nobody is more fitting to become the genre’s voice. 👟
Read my assessment of how the band became the most exemplary example of what Hardcore culture is below 🔪❤️🖤

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Almost accidentally, Speed became the face of Hardcore across the world, and luckily for us, nobody is more fitting to become the genre’s voice. 👟
Read my assessment of how the band became the most exemplary example of what Hardcore culture is below 🔪❤️🖤

📸: Tim Birkbeck

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The Best Metropolitan Festival Award from the UK Festival Awards 2024, awarded to Burn It Down Festival

we the best music. very proud. very excited for the best year yet in 2025🤘🙂‍↕️

thank you SOOOO much to everyone who’s subscribed so far. Very excited to show you all what i’ve been up to x

Mega excited to reveal ALTOPSY, my new free Substack newsletter dissecting Hardcore, Alternative music and culture, and shining a light on all of the bands that you need to know about
First post launching this week
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Splitknuckle and Ikhras are gonna crush this shit i can't wait to see em turn the fest into a fine paste

Outbreak Festival 2024 is on track to have the best lineup in its history. Absolutely giddy

new profile pic time. i’ve been working on something cool. keep ur eyes peeled this week 🔪❤️🖤
📸: Ben Hunt