- Squid Yes! Not So Octopus is not a twin-stick shooter. You might be forgiven for thinking it is just because you’re playing it on Xbox 360, where every second downloadable game is a twin-stick shooter, but it isn’t. It is in fact, essentially a one stick shooter – your squid moves in the precise, [...]

£%$%^&&^*&STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADING£%^&^&*&(( – Tim Rogers in well written, informative games journalism found on Kotaku SHOCK! – A certain kind of tragic beauty. – If the internet has topography it now has ghost towns. – CANABALT – Flash game worth playing (EDGY META-COMMENTARY), the game itself is pretty old, these scraps of design materials [...]

Stacato Bleeps from the Satellite HEART -A Whole pile of interesting analysis of Avalon Hill’s computer game output in the Eighties, when the industry (video games, that is) was in its infancy. Also, achingly beautiful box art for the aforementioned games. – Because when an Indie Dev is remaking side-scrolling fire-breathing ape arcade game Toki [...]

1. Preface. Is Strike Witches a horrific paedofest that no responsible human being should watch or enjoy? Yes and no. Let me be the ten-thousandth person on the internet to say that if you are bothered by the sexualised fashion in which the Japanese media often portrays young girls, then you probably won’t get on [...]

The artist of Strange Tales, one of the better components of Wednesday Comics, draws single page strips based on the chapter opening quotes of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Robots from found objects Dots

(A Blog Essay Thing, with no pictures, and some harsh language) When I was attending university, in the summer of my intellectual arrogance (I sometimes consider doing a second degree in order to find it again) I wrote an essay examining the very first season of Big Brother (The one with Nasty Nick, 2000 I [...]

There’s a game on Xbox Live Indie (nee Community) Games called Onslaught – it’s not to be confused with the WiiWare FPS Onslaught, made by Hudson, which is an interesting game in it’s own right; this Onslaught, by Hewson (no relation) is a port of an 1989 Amiga/ST game, a weird hybrid melange of a [...]

SquuuuEEEEEEeeeeeRadiosyncracies,broadcASTINGFRomPrAGUEeeeeeeeee Nanashi no Game: Open Your Eyes sounds like a videogame version of Haruki Murakami’s Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Andrew Rilstone, a very clever gentleman who apparently gamed with some people I gamed with a long time ago has written a fanzine-like collection of articles on Watchmen, which also touches [...]