My most recent contribution to the Maraoke video game karaoke songlist – first performed 12/09/2025. I felt that the songlist was lacking in positive Cyberpunk 2077-themed rewrites. I originally started rewriting Robert Palmer’s ‘Bad Case of Loving You’ (“Viktor Vektor, gimme the news” etc.), but in addition to being a song where everyone remembers precisely […]

Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023 I think I actually played enough games this year for me to curate some highlights rather than discussing absolutely everything for once. As usual I’ve skipped a fair proportion of the year’s big releases – I have been holding off on starting Astro […]

Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 2021 was not exactly a vintage year for games. It felt like the big publishers were playing ‘wait and see’, and the none of the handful of tentpole releases that did make it out this year really piqued my interest. As with last year, I’ve mainly been playing established […]

Time once again for a round up of the notable games I played in the last year. 2020 was a pretty solid year for games (if nothing else), although lacking any decisive raising of the bar in the AAA space (except Half-Life Alyx I suppose, which I don’t have the kit to play yet). Still, […]