Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

As a VB owner myself too, looking forward to getting the new Switch 2 version. Really excited about the new unreleased games coming to it too - I have a copy of the unreleased Bound High! game for VB, which is just brilliant.

Dude who spent thousands of pounds tracking down those early Boards of Canada cassettes and transferring them in the highest quality possible has uploaded them to his youtube btw: www.youtube.com/@samamdj

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Well, that was fantastic - thoroughly enjoyed Metroid Prime 4. Well worth playing if you have a Switch 2 - looks gorgeous, great weapons & atmos. Occasionally got lost & had to go online but otherwise a cracking Metroid.

Looking forward to seeing you later Tommy!

Lots of new followers this morning. Are people finally getting the message that the other place is a shitshow owned by a right wing nut job? Hope so.

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

Thanks Google - this will make my start to the year a royal pain in the arse. Cheers. 👍

2025 faves Best TV drama - Pluribus Best TV - Celebrity Traitors Best Single - Lily Allen - Pussy Palace Best Album - Pulp - More Best Game - Donkey Kong Bananza Best Film - Ballad of Wallis Island Best Console - Nintendo Switch 2

Bought a nice original copy of Beatles For Sale in a local cafe/record shop. It’s probably the album I’m least familiar with - Every Little Thing, I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party & What You’re Doing are not heard often. I’ll Follow The Sun is just perfect.

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

My personal game of the year - easy choice.

Great fun last night at our Christmas party - what isn't mentioned in the story is that I did the entire quiz-hosting in my socks - the combination of my Super Mario 64 trainers and Christmas jumper with cinema carpet, created so much static, it kept giving me shocks and shorting out my laptop...

What a game. Leeds 3 Liverpool 3. Football eh?

Thanks for the reminder of this @byronicman.bsky.social (not). 59 mins to go... I just backed Vectrex Mini on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...

Just another normal weekend for us…

A simply incredible wordsmith. Brazil alone, never mind Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Last Crusade and Empire of the Sun. What a legacy. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

My interview with legendary producer Trevor Horn has gone live on @musicradar.com.web.brid.gy. Had a lovely chat about Welcome to the Pleasuredome, playing live, AI in music and working with Bloc Party. www.musicradar.com/artists/it-w...

Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...

Great BBC Archive doc here "What is comedy?" featuring an always-smoking Marty Feldman interviewing fellow comics and writers including Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Eric Morecambe and more. Definitely of its time (very male) but still essential for comedy nerds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...

Am sort of helping out with this gig next year, so if you could all buy tickets to it, that'd be great, ta: www.seetickets.com/event/pye-co...

Shocking. The Stone Roses were incredible but also Mani’s bass on those Primal Scream records was brilliant. RIP.

Florian Schneider's (Kraftwerk) EMS Synthi just sold at auction for $90,000! The V&A want to exhibit it too apparently. Auction still live - hundreds of other items for sale.

Scoootlaaaaannnddddd!!!

Fruitful trip to Sore Thumb Retro Games in York yesterday! This “dog bone” controller Famicom is the only Nintendo console I didn’t have.

Good night raving at the 1-in-12 in Bradford (1st time in 30 years) with acts including Gus Bousfield, Flash Cassette and Utah Saints! @markoswin.bsky.social

Also great to reward & recognise our game dev community at @gamayo.bsky.social last night with the GR Awards. Personal highlight was giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ian Stewart, founder of Gremlin Graphics. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for being Boss Judge! gamerepublic.net/news/winners...

Really good fun at @gamayo.bsky.social yesterday at WX in Wakefield - 500 games industry folks there with 68 playable games from the North and Scotland! gamayo.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...

WANT!

More details on our visit to Valve on the brand-new DF website, kicking off with everything you need to know about the new Steam Machine: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/han...

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

Just sharing this again because I like it so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

GaMaYo and the GR Awards on Thursday is…. Sold Out. Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev

Really enjoying the #switchedon electronic music festival in Whitby! Everyday Dust, Hidden Britain, Lines of Silence, Me Loss Me, Mike Dickinson & more. Ably hosted by @bobfischer.bsky.social!

The Celebrity Traitors - absolutely fucking brilliant.

Here's a longer version of the games industry piece on our region by James Vincent at BBC Look North (6 minutes in), featuring @castirongames.bsky.social, @maximalistltd.com and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social with a fantastic 8-bit game intro. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

On radio & telly this morning, banging on about the games industry here in the North! Full report on BBC Look North later.

Mischief Night tonight! If you’re Northern, you’ll know about it. For me, growing up in a small village, this was the most exciting time - better than Halloween or Bonfire Night.

If you live in or around Wakefield, UK and you're interested in the history of games, I'm giving a talk on the history of Worms and Team17 at Wakefield Museum on Saturday 22nd November. Tickets are super limited; reserve one here: experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/30-yea...

Whitby abbey tonight! Spooky lights and a play featuring Dracula - part of the Goth/Halloween weekend.

I still occasionally think of this Viz cartoon and chuckle.

Where did all the money go? "From last year, we're really seeing a lot of money going from the US and Europe to other emerging markets, whether it's China, Turkey, or even Vietnam," says Lirui Ding of Transcend Fund. www.gamesindustry.biz/where-did-al...

FYI for Google Drive users.

One of my favourite albums - the sublime Slave to the Rhythm track remixed and messed about with by 80s production geniuses Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson. Was also sampled by The Orb in their brilliant track A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld.

Love my Kubrick stickers from the BFI London shop.

Enjoyed stepping in and hosting a chat yesterday on the MCM Comic Con Live Stage with Petri Alanko, brilliant composer for Remedy games including Alan Wake 1 & 2, Control and Quantum Break! (Get well soon @lewispackwood.bsky.social)

Great Perfect Dark/TimeSplitters panel at MCM today hosted by @dringo.bsky.social - and got my N64 cartridge signed!

Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider's gear collection up for auction 😎 www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

“Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks…” Remembering Soft Cell co-founder Dave Ball, who has sadly passed away aged 66. MOJO revisits our 2021 interview with Ball in which he recalls his and Marc Almond’s unexpected journey from electronic transgressives to pop stars.