“BAFTA believes games aren’t just one thing…” The BAFTA Games Awards are the United Kingdom’s highest profile games awards programme. They’ve been run by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (a film industry charity) since around the turn of the century. There are other prestigious UK games awards (handed out by trade bodies, […]

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 – 2022 You know the drill by now. Aside from finally upgrading from a PS4 Pro to a PS5, my playing habits were broadly similar to last year – dipping into the (surprisingly decent) Playstation Plus offerings with minimal interest in new games released this year (with […]

The second of two new songs contributed this month to the Maraoke video game karaoke songlist – first performed 19/11/2022 by Robert Wells. It’s about the Sega Saturn. “No-One Bought A Saturn” – after “Nothing Ever Happens” by Del Amitri GameStation staff put up signs saying previously owned And stack the shelves with Fighting Vipers […]

This bloody machine has become the Zeno’s tortoise of the sporadic games commentator over the last three months. Every time I’ve sat down to wrangle my thoughts into a coherent essay the narrative has again moved on, meaning I’ve had to junk another several hundred words of analysis. Still, things seem to have more or […]

This week’s PlayStation 4 announcement has provoked a wide range of responses, from cautious optimism to proclamations of doom for Sony and consoles in general. Business as usual then. Among the legitimate journalism there have been some sensationalist interpretations that have omitted key details and twisted what’s left to fit one of several discredited, over-simplistic […]