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Writer and host @palkeyspodcast. Author of The Making of Tomb Raider AND 50 Years of Boss Fights. Email me at springboard@darylbaxter.com for any queries.

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Daryl Baxter’s Biography

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Daryl loves using his experience as both a journalist and Apple fan to tell stories about Apple's products and its community, from the apps we use every day to the products that have been long forgotten in the Cupertino archives.

Daryl studied Computer Systems (Networks) at Nottingham Trent University, where he first flexed his editorial muscles with an interview with original Tomb Raider composer Nathan McCree, published in the university's magazine, helping Daryl to discover the career he wan…

Daryl Baxter’s Journalist Portfolio

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50 Years of Boss Fights

50 Years of Boss Fights

50 Years of Boss Fights celebrates a fading art in modern games.

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The Making of Tomb Raider

The Making of Tomb Raider

Back in 1994 at the game company 'CORE Design' in Derby, Lara Croft was born. Through eighteen months of pure…

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EXCLUSIVE: From Sega CD to iPhone SSD, Sonic designer Naoto Ohshima talks 30 years of Sonic CD, S...

EXCLUSIVE: From Sega CD to iPhone SSD, Sonic designer Naoto Ohshima talks 30 years of Sonic CD, S...

With Sonic Dream Team now on Apple Arcade, iMore speaks to Naoto Ohshima, the designer of the blue blur and D…

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I wrote the book on Tomb Raider and spoke to the devs about Lara Croft's return in the Remastered...

I wrote the book on Tomb Raider and spoke to the devs about Lara Croft's return in the Remastered...

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered proves how iconic the original trilogy remains to this day - and I spoke to the …

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"This is *exactly* what I've been hoping for since launching AltStore!" - Prolific developer cele...

"This is *exactly* what I've been hoping for since launching AltStore!" - Prolific developer cele...

After Apple announced sweeping changes to third-party apps in the EU for the iPhone, AltStore's developer may…

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"It has to make sense narratively," Tactile Games reveals hopes for Simon's Cat on Vision Pro

"It has to make sense narratively," Tactile Games reveals hopes for Simon's Cat on Vision Pro

Simon's Cat has been a big success on Apple Arcade as well as YouTube - we ask Tactile Games where the cat co…

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Articles

Fallout 3 is a masterpiece and I hope the remaster comes to Switch 2

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By Daryl Baxter Verified
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Fallout 3. I was a late bloomer to Fallout. I saw it aplenty in the magazines during the late 1990s, but it wasn't until a year after Fallout 3's 2008 release that I loaded it into my PlayStation 3 console, and it became my late Game of the Year. Playing a title that was a mix of first-person shooter and RPG genres was a new feeling for me; the feeling of awe was something I hadn't felt since I first played Half-Life in 2000.
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Fallout 3 is a masterpiece and I hope the remaster comes to Switch 2

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By Daryl Baxter Verified
| Gear Open
I was a late bloomer to Fallout. I saw it aplenty in the magazines during the late 1990s, but it wasn't until a year after Fallout 3's 2008 release that I loaded it into my PlayStation 3 console, and it became my late Game of the Year. Playing a title that was a mix of first-person shooter and RPG genres was a new feeling for me; the feeling of awe was something I hadn't felt since I first played Half-Life in 2000.
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Are developers actually making money on third-party app stores?

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By Daryl Baxter Verified
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Apple allowed third-party app stores for iPhones and iPads starting in the EU in 2024, along with emulator apps, but a gold rush has yet to occur, with some thriving and some dying. Setapp shut down earlier this year, blaming Apple’s complicated EU business rules, and even Epic Games’ mobile store, launched in August 2024, has made far less relatively little impact. Other indie-style storefronts like AltStore and Skich, though, seem to be surviving just fine.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Staff Writer at Stealth Optional

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Badly.