Over the last few weeks, I've played two indie games on my shiny new PS4 that were unlike anything I've played before. Both were so beautiful and affecting that I feel compelled to review them. Anyone who thinks that video games are all hobbits and hand grenades might have their minds changed by these...

First up: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture ( Read more... )

Eek. Every time an interesting-looking video game comes out, it seems to be designed for multiplayer. Is this the way gaming is going? It gives me fear ( Read more... )

Argh. Why am I playing Dragon Age? Someone make me stop. I thought it would be like Skyrim but it isn't.

I've managed to stealth through my entire work career finding ways to be specialist and senior without having to manage people... and yet I appear to be spending my free time micro-managing a team of useless tossers who keep dying every five ( Read more... )

On Sunday afternon rosamicula and wardytron offered their microbe-wrangling services, which meant that the boylet got to run around in their garden, plant narcissi, eat teddy-shaped cake and play with the world's least wolf-like dog for a few hours while I did some hardcore rimming back at home.  (Yes, I know I am going to mum hell).My penalty for this act of wanton ( Read more... )

Wow... what a blissful duvet day yesterday. A random day off work + microbe at nursery = a proper Xbox love-in ( Read more... )

Good morning, fiends!

I fear this is where I am about to lose 90% of you...

I'm having a rare Xbox love-in and have procured a second-hand copy of Skyrim for 5 of your earth pounds. Suffice to say I'm not at all au fait with the sort of games that last 300 years and involve orcs and elves and shit, so I may be some time ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I read this mildly amusing article by Charlie Brooker  about how Mass Effect 3 allows you to be gay in space.

Why am I mentioning this now?  Because, like the sad, old, completist dinosaur that I am, I have finally bitten the bullet and completed Ye Olde Mass Effect 1,  so that I have the back story to go on and play games 2 ( Read more... )

So...  amid a week of a grizzly sick Microbe and purée-making mania, I've been finding some time here and there to play Assassins Creed Revelations.

For those of you who are not gamers, it means that I get to run around the rooftops of the unbelievably stunning 16th Century Constantinople...


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Those of you who are gamers...  have any of you played Skyrim?  What's it like?  Does it have a meaningful and immersive plot and a sense of purpose?  Is the gameplay satisfying?  Or is it one of those games where you effectively run around all day doing seemingly pointless, disconnected errands and challenges amid a load of fantasy wantasy bollox?
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Yesterday G and I took delivery of a big, ginger puffball belonging to a friend.  It's v. strange having a pusscat back in the house just after I'd got used to being without one.  Her name is Jinjarella (Jinja for short) and we're cat-sitting her for a week in our place.

Note the sooty whiskers...


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