Arcade Decades is an absolute nostalgia kick of a read. I have fond memories of my local arcade in the late 80s, filled with machines including Gauntlet, Super Off-Road, Outrun, Rampage, Buggy Boy, APB, Star Wars. I wish I could go back there now with pockets overstuffed with coins.

Mid-May and I'm doing a log fire, folks

Keep seeing clips of Tame Impala's latest tour and I'm gutted I didn't get tickets.

Quite fun connecting my Keychron keyboard to my Steam Deck 😆

Our newest book project is now live on Kickstarter! Dedicated to Pokemon Generation 1, it covers the games, anime, movies, trading card game and more. Join us as we celebrate 30 years of Pocket Monsters with this premium coffee table book!

Morning! What's your favourite video game about diverting crawling babies from sticking their fingers in electric sockets and falling down elevator shafts? Mine is probably Mad Nurse on the ZX Spectrum.

Saw the Mario Galaxy movie with my kids. I really didn't enjoy the first one (although they did!) but I enjoyed this sequel a lot more. I was expecting the worst, given the reviews. It's certainly not a cinematic classic but you can't beat hearing music from the Galaxy game on the big screen.

Now spinning... Holly Humberstone's new album 🎶

Even though I've got Pragmata on PS5, I downloaded the free demo on Steam Deck and it actually runs really well.

It's been a while since I've bought a new PS5 game (I rarely get to commandeer the TV in the lounge, y'see) but Pragmata is a blast!

Bought the new Pet Shop Boys book 'Volume', a visual record of their output. Here I've compared with their previous book 'Catalogue': the more compact size means some reprinted content has been cut (such as the images of the Miracles CD singles shown here). Nonetheless the new book is a great read.

Saw this graphic on Twitter via Commodore Computer Museum. A selection of Amiga highlights from ONE YEAR of its life (1990). It really does highlight how much of an incredible gaming platform the Amiga was. What's your favourite from this selection?

Hey, for folks still rocking a PS4, if you own Astro Aqua Kitty, turn on the kitty astronaut dynamic theme! There should be giant Easter eggs spinning around the sun :)

I only discovered this game recently. Big fail on my part that I didn't play Mario Tennis back in the GBC's reign! 🎾

The sky went from brown to orange to red yesterday in Crete. Or were we on Mars? 🤔

Watching Project Hail Mary has inspired me to get this game out... an ideal choice by the way if you want to play a family game in absolute silence 😀

Love this! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

A productive day, getting my first AND second successful run in Slay the Spire 2. Defect first (lots of Lightning) and then Ironclad, with the Runic Pyramid relic (retain your hand) which at first I thought was a BAD IDEA but actually worked out well.

We had a family outing to the cinema to watch Project Hail Mary and we all loved it 👍 (👎)

Oh no with the arrival of the sun it's also the season of annoying flies buzzing around the house

Help. Now that I have a Steam Deck, the Steam Spring Sale is a truly dangerous thing. Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver, Dead Cells, Minishoot' Adventures, Old School Rally, Athena Crisis, and Shadow Gambit ALL in my wishlist and discounted 👀

Uh oh. It's been a while since I've visited here.

I am loving my Slay the Spire keyboard by MKRO. I've never bought a premium keyboard before, but it's such a pleasure to use. And it LIGHTS UP, which will no doubt increase my productivity IMMENSELY.

I bought a Steam Deck. *Obviously* it's a perfect excuse to play through this again.

I love the design consideration made with A Profound Waste of Time in that every page ends in a full stop; there are no sentences that wrap over to the next page. I'd imagine it could be a logistical design nightmare at times! @apwot.bsky.social

PS Vita was the perfect form factor and perfect quality and had tons of backwards compatibility and everyone just left it to die.

our team is TOTALLY blown away by the amount of people who have been playing & sharing their love for the game we've been working on for the past half decade. we're excited to continue to make StS2 the best that it can be!! 💪 also obligatory joke: we'll getcha one day Silksong

There are many reasons why Slay the Spire 2 is a 10/10 game, one of them being this room full of cheese.

THE DAY HAS ARRIVED and I'm straight on that Early Access

Pretty much everything I ever wanted in a Metroidvania. Spectacular game, and it looks great on CRT. 👀

Day off work, it's a beautiful day and the sun is shining! But... my new Steam Deck has just been delivered, so... 😄

A moment please, to appreciate the majesty of the SFC Arkanoid box art. 👀

Finished Small Prophets tonight, what a fantastically original TV series. Don't you just love a programme that can't easily be pinned to one genre.

I'm currently eyeing up Simogo Legacy Collection. I reckon it'll be a good fit on my Switch 2...

I first bought Edge magazine back in 1993 and never stopped. This account is dedicated to celebrating over 30 years of gaming history by revisiting 400+ issues of one of the industry's most distinctive voices. Expect scans, excerpts, some brutal reviews, and plenty of talk about the good old days.

Looks like I picked the correct week to order a Steam Deck

This is a hefty book! Looking forward to reading about the games I used to play in my youth, while wishing my ZX Spectrum could achieve the same.

I'm so excited for this youtube.com/watch?v=jbIT...

Anyone on the fence about upgrading to a Switch 2, I just want to say it's worth it alone for the fact the eShop experience is so much smoother and you don't actually feel like pulling your eyeballs out when you visit it.

Free playable demos absolutely work. I wouldn't have ordered Dragon Quest VII Reimagined or Pragmata if I hadn't had a chance to try them first.

Classic Amiga Power magazine content; in this case, the writer of the "Complete Control" tips section clarifying that he... doesn't like the Complete Control tips section.

I downloaded the free demo of Pragmata on Switch 2, with my only knowledge of the game being the recent Edge cover feature. What a blast! It looks to offer unique gameplay elements and an interesting story. I enjoyed it enough to preorder the game (due for release in April).

Apparently it's the full game on the cart. Great news. Indy would be pleased, we all know the two things he hates are snakes and game key cards.

I'd never even considered playing a Dragon Quest game until I tried the free demo... and now look what I've bought.

My young son is a big Chelsea fan, and for Christmas we got him a Stamford Bridge tour. I confess I'm not that into football, but the tour was fantastic... the thing that got me most excited though was seeing the old sponsored-by-Commodore player shirts 😃

As an update to this, I've just ordered Dragon Quest HD 2D III for the Switch 👌

I'd take a night playing the same N64 games on a tiny TV over most things.

I recently downloaded the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined free demo on Switch. Bloody hell I love it! I've never played a DQ game before (or indeed many JRPGs) but it's got a really nice chilled vibe. Feel free to tell me what essential Dragon Quest games I need to play 👀

I know Metroid Prime 4 has received a... mixed response... but I'm enjoying it. I even bought this amiibo (and I rarely buy amiibo) and look! Now I can give my motor a paint job!

I've built Wall-E! Do you think these two will get on ok together? I guess they're both into tech.