video games
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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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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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