I don’t think 2024 was a great year for video games. Don’t get me wrong, the games themselves were great! But for the industry? For the medium? Ehh. For starters, AAA titles – arguably the releases that provide shape and form to a year of gaming – either arrived with no impact or failed to … Read more
I began learning to drive in May 2023. I hated it from the start. Driving sucks! It’s complicated, it requires a degree of focus I find overwhelming and it turns out that learning a brand new skill at 30 is really difficult. For the past 17 months, I have dreaded the text from my instructor … Read more
Sony has officially unveiled the PlayStation 5 Pro, a beefier version of their four-year-old console that boasts the ability to play games at both a higher graphical fidelity and a higher frame rate. It costs £699. Fuck me. I don’t love my PlayStation 5. It is the most boring game console I have ever owned … Read more
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Weeknotes, a stream-of-consciousness post about life, work, media and everything in between. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Life I (finally) started my ADHD medication last month, which has had a life-changing effect on my focus, mood and general emotional regulation. I’ve been trying to write something about … Read more
I’ve been trying to find the motivation to blog for nearly two weeks now, after making the mistake of vaguely promising to write about Summer Game(s) Fest announcements in my last post. Since then, I’ve been engulfed in that oh-so-familiar feeling of obligation that I had grown so tired of, the very same feeling that … Read more
This year’s Not-E3 marks the first time in over a decade that I’m not covering the conference in some capacity, professional or otherwise. On the one hand, I am extremely relieved (covering E3 was hard enough when it was largely one event, but became a nightmare once the pandemic caused the splintered, multi-showcase mess we … Read more
I haven’t had a thought interesting enough to blog about for a while now, but I have had lots of smaller thoughts that I hope – when glued together – may resemble something worth reading. A sort of word… well I was going to say homunculus because I thought that meant a Frankenstein-style beast constructed from loose bits of flesh, but I’ve just Googled it and it turns out it actually means a miniature human being? So perhaps this post is, instead, a collection of word homunculi? Much to think about.
