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Game of the Year 2025
or: The State of Games in the Foul Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand-and-Twenty-Five A year late and as obvious as last year’s choice for many a player, my game of 2025 is Astro Bot. The best platformer that Nintendo didn’t make and a stand-out in a genre that already has its classics, Astro Bot is Continue reading
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Edited Highlights
Alien: Romulus review Contains some spoilers. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus are credited as the founders of Rome, but it was Romulus who became the first king of the city state. Remus was killed after the brothers disagreed on which of the seven hills of Rome to found the city upon; in some tellings, it Continue reading
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Setting Yourself on Fire to Keep Others Warm
or: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intensions Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (reviewed) That we each have our own opinions and definitions of what is and what is not art is not a controversial point. The arguments for what constitutes ‘art’, much like those of obscenity, reductively land on “I know it Continue reading
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For all the good that it does
The following was printed as a letter in Edge magazine (#408, April 2025) under the title “Passing out”. Much as I would like to make myself sound like a person of principle, the truth of the matter is that my Game Pass subscription expired. A year was offered by my broadband provider, so I took Continue reading
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Cheating in video games
An edited version of the following was published in the Christmas 2024 edition of Edge Magazine (#404) under the title ‘The conundrum conundrum‘ Cheaters obviously prosper. We need only look at a floppy-haired buffoon who’s held residence at 10 Downing Street, and the once and future demagogue who will again hold court in the Oval Continue reading
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On Sable and “The SBI Controversy”
The original version of this appeared as a guest post on WanderingWitch.boo A group of Hakoan Crystal Farmers gather at the foot of the walls of the Crystal Plateau. The trader, Caimin, their giant form looming over her, barely greets Sable and gives away nothing of the tribe, but another, Tohta, talks freely, openly and Continue reading
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