Seeing as I’m within an ace of leaving – possibly to be replaced by a superstar talent, unless he can’t find the time – I thought it was time to bestow the fruits of some wisdom. The Top Fifty Games Of All Time will hopefully be decided this weekend, if everyone can make it, but in the meantime, here’s twenty-six games that must be play-ed, from A to Z-ed. In the Alphabet Of Awesome Gaming… [Read more] [Read more]

A quickie this time, both because I’m up to my neck in work and because no words can fully do justice to this. The tilted angles of the panels and extraneous shapes give the whole misbegotten thing the air of an LSD vision, or possibly some form of psychotic break. But the real reason this advert sucks so impossibly badly is that this game comes with its own joystick and extra RAM to make it as absolutely, completely like the arcade experience as possible, and they’re choosing to show that by having a retarded comedy bit with an elephant in it. What’s the game about again? Oh, no room to tell me? I guess you had to fit that elephant gag in somehow. Never mind. [Read more]

I was in a comic shop. I turned off my iPod and sat down on the sofa to collect my thoughts. Outside in the street, a group of young people (Y and P capitalised) bellowed at the top of their lungs – not in some ironic counterpoint or statement, just because that was their normal mode of speech. So I ended up thinking about tradition, memory and respect and the forms they take. Kieron Gillen posted a look back at the undeniably retro game Cannon Fodder, and how it might be more of an appropriate game to be thinking about today than you might think. Him and some like-minded folk have started up a gaming blog, which you should go and read. I mostly know Kieron through the comics field as the writer of the music-magic comic Phonogram, which,... [Read more]

Unfortunately, I’ve decided it’s time to go. I’ll be staying for a week or two, long enough to keep you all interested while my superiors find another writer who’ll be less of a hard-drinking maverick and more of a person who can actually remember playing a video game at some point ever, and then I’ll be drifting away into the ether. As for my reasons for going – I present to you a public domain story by O. Henry (1862-1910) entitled Confessions Of A Humorist. —- There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on me, and people said I was It. But they called it humor instead of measles. [Read more] [Read more]

Yeah, here are some comics that were created using the retro computer technology of MS Paint. [Read more] [Read more]