Jess Kinghorn

@koeniginkatze

Hardware writer for PC Gamer. Formerly games editor for PLAY Magazine.

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Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· 14d

Yeah, you can swim elegantly through water-based environments, But on land you have to use button presses to co-ordinate your ungamely human limbs to DRAG YOURSELF ACROSS THE FLOOR. Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah!

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jul 12

Me, having just finished watching this week's episode of The Vampire Lestat:

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jun 11

I scored 3,300 pts riding the INTC chart on StonkRider! Can you beat me? stonkrider.com/INTC?p=all&s...

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· May 17

Uh, bit surprised by that libertarian leaning tbh. Much to consider.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Apr 26

LOOK AT MII

A Mii wearing a skeleton outfit in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. They are sat on the floor of a graveyard-themed room. There is an orange thought bubble about their head with a black squiggle inside, indicating to the player they have a problem or a request that needs their input.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Apr 10

Uhhh... On a bit of a Matt Johnson kick, I guess!

A Letterboxd user's last four films watched. From left to right: Operation Avalanche (2016), Megadoc (2025), Matt and Mara (2024), and The Dirties (2013). The user has liked Matt and Mara.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Apr 8

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Mar 2

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Feb 2

I DID IT I'M FINALLY FREE AHAHAHAHA

A snippet showing a Steam user's in-game stats for Potionomics. The user has earned all 30 Steam achievements and has a total playtime of 56.5 hours.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 6

Well, look who it is telling on themself on PC Gamer Dot Com once again 👀 www.pcgamer.com/.../what-gam...

A screenshot of PCGamer.com. The text reads: "Jess Kinghorn, Hardware Writer: Setting aside a frankly scary number of hours spent running around Pokemon Legends Z-A, it is time to confess my sins and admit I've spent a fair chunk of this festive period playing a deckbuilder where all the cards are anime maids.

In Tanto Cuore, you take on the role of a manor lord who wants nothing more than to fill the estate up to the rafters with frilly-clothed professionals. Rather than paying your house staff anything in the way of proper monetary compensation, you instead spend love cards each turn to hire fresh faces. Each maid you employ possesses various abilities, such as generating more love or sending victory-point sapping mishaps to rival players—who, in single-player, are also maids.

Despite the cute and fluffy aesthetic, it's mechanically aggressive; each turn you're either adding to your horde of house staff or plotting the downfall of another player, with defensive plays often feeling more costly than worthwhile.

I've lost my fair share of games now, but every time a rival gloats by calling me "quite disorganized", I always come crawling back. You could say this hole was maid for me."

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 1

Happy new year from my island to your's! ✨️

A woman with an espresso martini displays a joyous expression towards the camera. There is a television screen behind her, displaying the new year's celebration in the videogame Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Dec 26

Both my other half's mum and my own mother gave me the same book for Christmas. I've never been so read for filth in my whole life.

A hand holds up a copy of Mai Mochizuki's novel 'The Full Moon Coffee Shop,' as translated by Jesse Kirkwood

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Dec 16

The shaaame...

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Dec 16

I've been keeping busy

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Dec 3

And...the rest!

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Sep 19

I've gone from the big lady to a tiny banana - what an arc.

The writer Jess Kinghorn has searched Wikipedia to see which articles she's cited in. The top two results are Google Gemini's Nano Banana and Resident Evil VIII villain Lady Dimitrescu.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Sep 3

Never speak to me or my son again!

A woman with glasses, wearing a purple gamer headset, looks dolefully at the camera. She is glumly resting her head on a plush toy of the blue-haired Nahobino character from Shin Megami Tensei V.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Aug 27

Went back home recently to visit my folks. Not pictured: my original form, a smiling treestump.

A woman in silver glasses poses in front of a lush green forest. She is throwing up the peace sign, sticking her tongue out, and generally looking wild-eyed.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Aug 22

Capping the week off //right//.

A Letterboxd user's last four watched movies, from left to right: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Eddington (2025), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), and The Naked Gun (2025).

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Aug 15

"Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down" I call this 'doing my homework, apparently'

A screenshot of a Steam user's first few purchases, dating back to January, 2013. After three Steam wallet credit purchases, the user buys the following games in a single transaction: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, The Path, To The Moon, Analogue: A Hate Story, Lone Survivor, Thomas Was Alone, Bastion, and finally Audiosurf.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jun 11

Oh hey, look what's at the top of PC Gamer's news carousel right now

A screen shot of the PC Gamer website landing page. The most prominent headline reads: "'Sheer practice and willpower': Real-life telekinetic heroine PerriKaryal beat Elden Ring's bosses by thinking about a cricket jumping and twitching her inner ear, and Nightreign is next."

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· May 25

"Play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," they said. "It's an RPG that's only about 20 or so hours long," they said.

A phone photo close up of a Steam user's play time count for the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The total count is 64.3 hours.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Feb 28

#LastFourWatched ...Shelved by Genre had an episode on The Good Witch, alright? In other news, I'm now high-key obsessed with The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, holy moly.

A Letterboxd user's last four movies watched, from left to right: The Good Witch (2008), Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone (2014), Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012), National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2025)

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Feb 21

#LastFourWatched

A Letterboxd user's last four movies watched, from left to right: The Monkey (2025), The People's Joker (2022), A Real Pain (2024), and Django Unchained (2012).

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Feb 7

A powerful vibe or just a bit cursed? Answers on the back of a postcard.

A Letterboxd user's most recently logged movies, from left to right: Companion (2025), Tales from Earthsea (2006), Seven (1995), and Nosferatu (2024).

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 16

My Army of Miku is growing (omg thank you @keepdrawingcharlie.bsky.social!!!)

A hand holds a boxed anime figure. It's an underwater themed Miku Hatsune figure from Sega.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 12

Just got given this as a gift. ❤️ The way I nearly cried when I unwrapped it...😅

A hand holds a copy of 'Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku' for the Nintendo Switch aloft.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 5

My baby sister offered a very compelling review of Nosferatu.

A text conversation between two people. A covertly taken image of a cinema screen is accompanied by the message, "Nothing like Nosferatu at 9am because all of yesterday evening was booked out." The blue bubble response reads, "Ooooo, I hear it's good! Lmk" followed by another blue bubble message that reads, "Also, put your phone away :p" The person at the cinema replies a few hours later, "Fucking terrifying my guts don't feel right."

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Jan 1

I am but a passing dream made up of various interpretations of light on a flat surface. It's definitely a 2D experience, but makes you believe for a brief moment there's some depth.

Jess Kinghorn@koeniginkatze· Dec 24

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits: