Awww, the jackass in the apartment next to me keeps barbecuing delicious steak dinners on his balcony, and the smell floats into my bedroom—er, my office. He is too deranged for me to safely ask to share, so I’ll have to get my own dinner. Unfortunately, I forgot to thaw anything to cook for tonight, so it looks like I’ll be striking out to follow the Subway or Pizza Hut herds like the urban Neanderthal that I am.
A brand new hump day means a brand new Zero Punctuation. This week, the breathless critic Yahtzee takes on not a game, but …read more

I know the Internet needs more gaming webcomics like a centipede needs more legs, but I will admit I lack the frothing hate that some critics spew unto the genre. It’s over-saturated and formulaic, but there’s a certain predictability that I find comforting about the whole thing.
I’ve never been a fan of Tim Buckley’s Ctrl+Alt+Del, but I’ve never hated it, either. Regardless, Buckley’s much-publicised attempt to inject real-life drama into his middle-of-the-road comic about gamers who sit on the couch and natter about Playstation leaves me weary and a little dizzy.
(Or maybe I just ate some bad tomatoes.)