Pretty much every Stormtrooper.

Nooooooooooooooo!

Super Mario World: lost in chocolate I have got further than ever before, but that's not saying much. I own Super Mario World on multiple systems - SNES, GBA, Wii, Wii U, 3DS - as well as having emulated it on the Raspberry Pi, the iMac, and (shh) my work laptop. I have played the start of it many…

An idea similar to @michaelspicer.bsky.social's Room Next Door series - the White House press secretary working out what lies she is going to have to tell to overcome the latest utterances from President Orange in real time. I am, unfortunately, not talented enough to make that happen.

Can someone please design a booking system for school parents’ evening which doesn’t involve you logging in at 7pm on the dot and seeing available appointments disappear before your eyes? You’d think that there should be a standard maths optimisation routine.

A Generational Shift: international lessons from 2G network sunsetting The Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF) commissioned Plum to examine how other countries worldwide have dealt with the issues surrounding the switching off of 2G networks. As the vast majority of voice and data traffic migrates to…

I like this logic game. It sometimes takes a couple of minutes to work through options, but is very rewarding when you do.

Outrun 2006: Clarissa's challenges I think that's her name, anyway. I completed a few of the flagman challenges, but fancied something different so started to play some of Clarissa's heart attack missions. And they're hard. In fact, I've only unlocked about half of them so far, since you need to…

Viewfinder: petting the cat Viewfinder caught my eye when it was first demonstrated, with the ability to take photos and walk into them, and clever world manipulation. When it came out it was £20, and that seemed a little expensive for the technical sandbox I imagined it to be. Towards the end of…

I completed the game Viewfinder (PS4), via @truetrophies.com

On Saturday as I was leaving home, a man came and gave me what I thought was a local newspaper, but which turned out to be the Daily Mail. They yesterday and today, at about 6:30am, the Mail has been pushed through our letterbox. I hope this is a mistaken address rather than someone trolling us.

The Crew Motorfest: on the horizon The new Crew game has joined Game Pass, so I thought I'd give it a go. At first it felt like I was playing Forza Horizon 2, but after a while it felt more like Forza Horizon 4. It's just so familiar, but with a slightly worse driving model, and more unlikeable…

Had to go back to Twitter to contact someone at Argos. It is an awful place now. Within a few minutes of me posting to Argos, I had six scam accounts trying to impersonate them and get me to send them my details. Reporting does nothing. Fundamentally broken.

I completed the game A Game About Digging A Hole, via @trueachievements.com

I completed the game Unpacking, via @trueachievements.com

I completed the story in Unpacking, via @trueachievements.com

Just found my favourite box in the loft.

I completed the game Sonic The Hedgehog 3, via @trueachievements.com

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

Radiant Silvergun: an abundance of weapons I'm not great at scrolling shooters, though I enjoy their spectacle and the panic they induce as the number of bullets increases. Radiant Silvergun not only has a great many bullets, it also has a great many weapons, all but one of which I forget to use.…

I have just realised I can use my Switch 2 GameCube controller with my copy of Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. Game changer, quite literally.

Comix Zone: comically hard I love the concept, of being pulled into a comic and having to battle through the panels. Having the world shaped by your own hand, and then having enemies drawn in by your enemy is a work of genius. Choosing paths, having to jump across or down past the borders of the…

Assassin's Creed: splosh! I'm on the 'final' mission now, which is to find the Templar organising all the blockades and book burning and general malpractice. Except I know it's not the last mission, since there are two more mission blocks in the animus. The last assassination was exceptionally…

Sonic CD: comparing time periods When playing through Sonic CD, there are frequently ledges that seem inaccessible, or slopes that seem to stop abruptly. I noted when writing about my completion of the game that the level design felt a little bit off in places, preventing you from getting up too…

Steps on Strictly!

I feel ripped off by Tesco, I’m one colour short.

I must learn not to publish stuff in the middle of the night, if I want anyone to see it.

Lonely Mountains Downhill: feeling stylish One of the things I really appreciate in a game is if it makes me look good, full of style, skilled in a way that I'm not in real life. Elaborate swordplay leading to combination hits; parkour across a cityscape; flying through buildings and structures…

I have never ever seen a Sableye in the wild. This is just taunting me.

Daily Mail readers are having a standard day.

Sonic CD: completed! Stardust Speedway remains a low point for the game, I think, which is a shame because the ornamentation (of the brass instruments in the present, and overgrown pipework in the past) is evocative of the Starlight Zone, probably my favourite levels of the original Sonic game.…

Even Microsoft doesn’t want Teams and would prefer Skype - this is a brand new laptop being set up today on Windows 11 …

Waiting for the Skinners’ Battle of the Bands to start. Very exciting!

@trueachievements.com Is something odd happening with the Forza Horizon 5 achievements?

An amazing night sky tonight.

Very amused that the Karl Marx episodes of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social have been intercut with Starbucks adverts.

What’s that I see, at long last? It’s the last agility orb in Crackdown 3!

The Stanley Parable: completed! The Stanley Parable is an odd narrative game, where you are effectively given instructions by the narrator.  As an office worker, you suddenly realise that everyone else has disappeared, and it feels that the point of the game is to understand why.  If it were a…

From an Amazon listing for a Pokémon card folder. She certainly looks as if she is enjoying spending quality time with her childrens.

Super Mario Odyssey: completed! It seems a little contrived to say it's completed, really, since I can see that there are over half the moons I am yet to discover, and the game is still throwing new ideas at me each time I play. However, Peach has been rescued, Bowser is defeated, and the world is…

Dell expects delivery by today, but the parcel hasn't yet been handed to the courier. I am not optimistic.

To live a life of power, you must have faith that what you believe is right, even if others tell you you're wrong. The first thing you must do to live a life of power is to find courage.

15 years since we lost Owen. Playing Mr Driller 2 in remembrance.

Sonic CD: chasing the generators I had some questions before, and I have now answered them. Do I need to travel to the future after destroying the machine in the past, or is it sufficient to just explode the generator? No, you don't need to travel to the future; you can finish the act in the past,…

Super Mario Odyssey: a variety of treats The game is so expansive in its scope that it's hard to know what to write. With Breath of the Wild, and then also Tears of the Kingdom, the game felt huge because of the size of the world, the enormity of the task, and the freedom you had to approach it…

Headhunter: forget about amnesia When Headhunter came out on the Dreamcast, it was when the format was dying and games were being reduced to silly prices in HMV. This was good news for my collection and my wallet, with many £5 games filling up my shelves. It was not good for the games themselves,…

Grand Theft Auto Vice City: packages, police, and pootling Back in April, when I completed Vice City, I posited that I might try playing San Andreas in "a few months". It has now been a few months, and I'm not playing it. I have a bit of a mental blocker on that game, partially around the setting,…

For those who decry abortion choices, killing unborn babies through medical disinformation is seemingly fine.

I am loving the positivity of the messages coming from the Lib Dem conference. It's such a contrast to what the BBC is choosing to focus on coming from Reform.