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Simon Parkin

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Simon Parkin

@SimonParkin

non-fiction writer // cw @newyorker // fellow @royalhistsoc // @myperfectcnsle // THE FORBIDDEN GARDEN OF LENINGRAD 2024/5 (@sceptrebooks/ @scribnerbooks).

Joined February 2009

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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
May 14, 2025
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is a finalist in the 2025 Orwell Prize. Delighted to be nominated alongside such a wonderful clutch of books. Thank you to my editors at @SceptreBooks and @ScribnerBooks.
The Orwell Prize
@TheOrwellPrize
May 14, 2025
“These books show us how we got here." – Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges Announcing the eight finalists for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Discover them now: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri… #OrwellPrize2025 #PoliticalWriting #Nonfiction
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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Dec 29, 2017
Replying to @SimonParkin
This, from Shigeru Miyamoto, on how Nintendo only hires designers who have deep and wide interests outside of video games, to the point where perhaps they don't even play games, is close to the heart of it all.
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Mar 14, 2017
Replying to @SimonParkin
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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Dec 20, 2020
The New Yorker interview: Shigeru Miyamoto. Super Mario’s maker on philosophy, his kids love of Sega, abusive bosses, video game guns, and how he tries to ensure his work adds more to a person’s life than it takes.
Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World
From newyorker.com
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jan 19, 2023
Replying to @jennygzhang
red text? guess you hate the colourblind, jenny.
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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jan 31, 2019
’closeness lines over time’ by olivia de recat:
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jul 30, 2019
(l) 1859: journalist berates young man's chess tournament win, a game that 'robs...valuable time that might be devoted to nobler achievements'. (r) 2019: journalist berates young man's Fornite tournament win, a game 'responsible for so many lost childhoods'. plus ça change.
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Oct 20, 2015
Here is a photograph of Kojima's farewell party on October 9th at Konami, which Konami claims no knowledge of:
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jun 8, 2017
Get yourself a girl that looks at you the way George Osborne looks at exit polls.
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Oct 8, 2019
Yesterday a Hearthstone tournament winner said ‘liberate Hong Kong’ during his post-match interview. Now the game’s publisher Blizzard, part-owned by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent, has rescinded the player’s winnings and issued him a year-long ban...
Inven Global
@InvenGlobal
Oct 6, 2019
[BREAKING] Hong Kong Hearthstone player @blitzchungHS calls for liberation of his country in post-game interview: invenglobal.com/articles/9242/… @Matthieist #Hearthstone
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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Feb 20, 2018
Recently discovered Götzendiener, a 1994 PC Engine game in which you play as the damsel in distress, whose rescuer dies in the very first scene, leaving her to GET SHIT DONE HERSELF:
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Mar 13, 2017
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Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jan 8, 2018
An ex-Konami employee recently told me that the company examined other photographs taken at this event to determine out who took the below shot, and duly disciplined the individual.
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Oct 20, 2015
Here is a photograph of Kojima's farewell party on October 9th at Konami, which Konami claims no knowledge of:
Simon Parkin
@SimonParkin
Jan 23, 2019
Something I think about often is how the 1996 arcade game Art of Fighting 3 would check the date from the system clock and, if it was one of the character's 'birthdays', would make that character super-powerful for 24 hours.