{"id":610487,"date":"2025-12-03T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610487\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:28:14","slug":"british-retro-gaming-journalist-nick-thorpe-has-died-unexpectedly-aged-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610487\/","title":{"rendered":"British retro gaming journalist Nick Thorpe has died unexpectedly aged 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British retro gaming journalist Nick Thorpe has died aged 38.<\/p>\n<p>Thorpe, who most recently worked as features editor at Future-owned Retro Gamer, died on Monday, December 1. He had worked at the magazine since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His editor, Darran Jones, broke the news on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/retrogamerdaz.bsky.social\/post\/3m6zkrs5yws2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, writing: &#8220;It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our colleague Nick Thorpe passed away on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an incredibly lovely person, a talented writer and an essential part of the magazine. Our thoughts go out to all his friends and family at this difficult time. Rest in peace, friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/retrogamerdaz.bsky.social\/post\/3m6zkrs5yws2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dozens of journalists and game developers<\/a> from around the world joined Thorpe&#8217;s colleagues in sharing their sadness at his unexpected death.<\/p>\n<p>In a touching tribute on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2025\/12\/retro-gamers-nick-thorpe-has-passed-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Extension<\/a>, veteran journalist and co-owner of Hookshot Media, Damien McFerran, wrote: &#8220;The world of video games journalism is undeniably poorer for his passing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British retro gaming journalist Nick Thorpe has died aged 38. Thorpe, who most recently worked as features editor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-610487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115658234587450275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}