Ah, time for me to own a 4th version of this game I haven't played.

I did this exact thing. Great advice!

Huge couple of years for ITV2 enjoyers

20 minute changeover at Swindon. Swindon station rn:

I'm a few hours from the end of 007 First Light, but I'm having a great time. The stealth fundamentals are borrowed from Hitman, there's plenty of IO DNA in the environments, and the Uncharted-level ambition of the action parts make you forgive the shooting not being top tier. Expectations met!

Never has my Mitchum anti-perspirant faced a challenge like getting on a train today.

I just put on The Simpsons episode 'Flaming Moes' for the first time in maybe 7 years, and got an unexpected shotgun full of endorphins from Kent Brockman's Eye on Springfield intro.

Great movie though 🤷‍♂️ Sometimes the film executives are right to add killer chimps and moon pirates to your sad man in space film.

"Fancy a game of Rocket League?" "I think those days are behind me." "What if I told you the grass is now rad as shit?"

It’s a beautiful day, Bluesky is open, and people are having a wonderful time.

The people are not ready to remember how rough the final hour of this game is.

I've watched 8 Spielberg films in a week in service of one @backpagepod.bsky.social Patreon episode. We don't fuck about (unless it's Games Court, then we *only* fuck about).

Two days in the sun got me looking like this:

I'm always trying to force discussion of 00s novelty songs into the podcast.

Shout out to Reading's wee comic book shop, which is much better than the Bath one. That was like navigating a Funko hoarder's living room.

Related: once a year I ask myself, "do I actually own shorts?"

Unbelievably grim that this is the de facto way kids experience games. Looks like shite, grifts you at every turn.

RIP. Those 300 hours during Covid were an amazing distraction. Pour one out for my guy Callus:

The most I've ever heard Matthew laugh doing one of these.

Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is the first PR work I ever did! Excited to see a sequel coming along, which I got a few exciting hints of before I left Frontier: youtu.be/CK8V9sZDY-o?...

Fuck sake. This game's writing is slowly winning me over.

I was *this* close to participating in the ShopTo lottery on 007 First Light.

When people cancel on Patreon, they can leave a bit of feedback on why. Normally it's a fair and generic reason – first time I've seen this, though...

Nice nomination for DOOM here! Means you're guaranteed to see me at the Develop bar this year. 🤣

Titanium Court: it's happening. I'm firmly not the audience the story part is aimed at, but the game part? 🤌

This dude only makes bangers. Bleak.

Mate what a game.

Aww hell yeah that's the good stuff. All we're left with these days is schadenfreude. And this is some tasty schadenfreude. Om nom nom nom

It's weird, having worked at media outlets where people (including peers) would constantly compare our work to our predecessors, I think I was willing the devs of Zero Parades to succeed. Ultimately if you're not management, all the messy stuff has nothing to do with you.

'Download the app for your fridge' It should be illegal to ask me this. Someone should be in jail for asking this.

OLD

Finally getting around to Daredevil season 2. It is solid, but the most damning thing I can say about it is that the fight scenes are Arrowverse core (might just be the way they're filmed, but the Netflix series always delivered on that).

If Reading was a Soulslike, I'd have to dodge roll around this big lad and batter him from the back.

The MindsEye hoodie is all fun and games until it turns out to be the warmest garment in your cold, cold house.

Misread the cinema listing for Obsession, arrived 30 minutes late, then bounced directly into The Devil Wears Prada 2. 😎

Not played this in 5 years. Good lord.

Why I Hang Out in Video Game Menus youtu.be/s62uIzqTwNU?... shout out to @samuelwroberts.bsky.social for showing me im not the only person who dreams in #halflife 2 menus #lifeisstrange #finalfantasyvii

Is there anything more exciting than updating a game and agreeing to a new EULA?

So begin 9 days off. First up: completing Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and 2, which is unfinished business from last year's funemployment.

BELIEVE 🦊

I think the listeners will enjoy this one, even if Dave Scarborough drags the tone down with his usual vulgarities.

I feel like making a Star Wars movie that attempts to please the crowd but ends up being boring was the inevitable lesson they'd take away from those sequel movies: variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Just had the strangest restaurant experience where they played a single Billy Joel track on repeat, constantly, then when we complained the waitress put a different Billy Joel song on repeat. This happened twice more until we went, 'is this actually happening?'

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Wes Streeting isn't a Marmite politician. Some people like Marmite.

I'm definitely the only one who played Forza Horizon 6 and thought 'it'd be cool if Pinky from Promise Mascot Agency was also in this.'

Mass Effect 1 fans be like 'this is why it's the best one'.

Absolutely not. Next question.