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Chris Tapsell

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Deputy Editor at Eurogamer

Deputy Editor of @Eurogamer. I look after reviews & features (and sometimes still write them!). Recovering guides nerd. Limit Break mentor. He/him.

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  • 1 week ago | eurogamer.net | Chris Tapsell

    I saw someone, somewhere, saying something like this recently: it's always easier to play the role of doomsayer than the optimist, because far fewer people seem to care if you're wrong when you're predicting something will fail. I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but in writing this one it is undoubtedly at the back of my mind.

  • 2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Chris Tapsell

    Published on May 1, 2025 Despelote's creators tell a remarkable, pseudo-autobiographical tale about football, Ecuador, and community - but also one about the act of remembering, and the creative act itself. For such an ostensibly small game, there's such bigness to Despelote. On the surface this is a game about football, its humble joys and seemingly unstoppable knack for rendering whole nations enraptured.

  • 1 month ago | eurogamer.net | Chris Tapsell

    Earlier this month, Microsoft set loose upon the world a new, publicly-available demo of its video game-focused generative AI model, Muse. As far as demos go, it was a significant one: a playable, browser-based "AI rendition" of legendary first-person shooter Quake 2.

  • 1 month ago | eurogamer.net | Chris Tapsell

    Few still-perfectly-decent games have felt as desperate a disappointment as this one. South of Midnight is gloriously pretty, a game of sumptuous environmental detail and rich attention. It's one of the best sounding games I've played in an age, with a highly unique, artfully implemented original score woven into its sound design. And it's also extremely well acted, a cut above the vast majority of video games in emotional authenticity and heft. But goodness me can it get tiresome to play.

  • 1 month ago | msn.com | Chris Tapsell

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Chris Tapsell
Chris Tapsell @ChrisTapsell
25 Apr 25

I’m only on The Other Place now but a quick promo for this, last day of free shipping today. Vol 2 features a long read from me, for which I spoke to the wonderful @TAHK0 and inimitable @DrLavaYT about Mew, myths, and the real meaning of Pokémon.

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Chris Tapsell
Chris Tapsell @ChrisTapsell
20 Dec 24

RT @samwrite: The best games of the year https://t.co/2R6EreQcUM Feat. people who are more interesting than me: @GameOverGreggy @tamoorh @…

Chris Tapsell
Chris Tapsell @ChrisTapsell
14 Nov 24

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