Befriend the native coconuts and explore the exotic isle as you discover the surprising origins of the best game ever created: mini golf! Tiki à Coco is out NOW on VR and iOS platforms!

The new Fujifilm Instax movie camera is all gimmick, and I'm all for it.

Surely one of the first Sasha mix CDs (and Dave Seaman to boot!)

Heartening to hear ambient legend Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner say he sometimes simply runs a radio through effects for fun. Like, me too, dude!

Good guy Bandcamp.

Just finished Lady in White, a staple of early-mid '90s ITV. Phenomenal film that's aged incredibly well--is probably better now than it was then, as the '80s kiddie adventure trappings (it's heavily influenced by ET, Gremlins, et al-- looks just like those movies, too) play into its vehemently

Utterly bizarre to see Aphex Twin being namechecked as a sort of near-mainstream figure of legend. I remember when he was the Cornish kud with the tank who made that didgeridoo techno track and lied in every interview.

I thought the kitty cat in a onesie riding an eagle was the craziest thing about the new One Piece trailer, but then a man's hairdo pulled out a bunch of guns.

Strymon Deco arriving this week. I love their El Capistan pedal so much I have high hopes for this one.

It's that time of year again, folks!

You know what's a genuinely good game, top of its field, great support, great DLC, and is unlikely to be beaten any time soon--if ever? Walkabout Mini Golf.

The Fatboy Slim Essential Mix disc ends with Underworld - Born Slippy mixed into Groove Armada's At the River, perfectly encapsulating that exact moment in time.

In 1980, Tyne Tees' magazine show for teens, CHECK IT OUT, gave kids in the North-East of England the lowdown on nuclear war. And it's a delight from start to finish. Future 'The Tube/Top of the Pops' producer Chris Cowey there, with the perm and mussie.

Most of what remains of my CD collection. In evidence: Orbital and Utah Saints single, a John Digweed mix, an Essential Mix comp circa 1999 (Pete Tong, Fatboy Slim AND Paul Oakenfold!) a rare comp of Reload/Global Communication remixes and a compilation on the history of musique concrete.

The more old timey episodic TV I watch, the more I miss old timey episodic TV.

Me as a Protomen fan watching the Stranger Things community the itself into knots expecting a secret ending to their finished show.

Love me some Dr. Scott.

Who are all these people going online to play Devil's advocate for absolute strangers? How does this become your life?

Oh my God, it's full of bangers.

Maybe I'm a mark, but I liked Stranger Things seemingly paying tribute to Half-Life Alyx with its flickering electric basement laundry scene, after Alyx borrowed the Stranger Things patented organic growths+floaty bits combo.

End of sale panicked indecision.

Not sure '26 is going to be any better than '25, tbh.

Bought some weird PS4 game in the sale, not sure if anyone's heard of it or of it's meant to be good. Bloodborne? Is that it? Seems a bit tricky!

Perhaps there's some recency bias, my Game of the Year in a single sitting: Strange Jigsaws, Fleb's magnum opus follow-up to 20 Small Mazes that flavours the quirkiness of the precedent with The Witness, Frog Fractions and The Beginner's Guide. store.steampowered.com/app/2702170/...

Every Sunday, I'm woken up at around 4/5am by a lady laughing raucously from a nearby car boot sale. But what can I do? Complain and tell her to stop enjoying herself? So... I just have to be woken up every Sunday by her like some sort of jolly human cockerel.

Hoping to rescue as much of what remains of my CD collection as possible, so it doesn't end up the same way as my game and book collections.

Really sick of people picking up on Internet memes and presenting then as their own thoughts, their own independently-reached conclusions. Obviously there are some pretty famous examples of this, but really this shit is everywhere.

There is nothing more festive than being hunted by robots, I say! And it is with that sentiment in mind that I bring you Sir, You Are Being Hunted, beloved and seminal stealth and survival game from Big Robot, a gift of 40% off. Cheers!

Gaming moment of the year was telling my kids one could design the character in Dreamlight Valley and the other could name it. My daughter spent 30 minutes painstakingly creating her ideal Disney princess only for her brother to name it "Yower".

For the first time on Bluesky, here are two mixes of lesser known Christmas carols which I made a long time ago and have become the traditional soundtrack of our household at Christmas. soundcloud.com/digitonal/lu...

My wife's had a tweet catch a bit of attention on a different Twitter replacement platform and I'm staggered by the sheer stupidity of the majority of replies. An endless parade of people willfully ignoring any kind of context to push their own ridiculus agendas.

The fragrance world assuming I want to know what Johnny Depp smells like is presumptuous.

Welp, just found out for certain that my entire reading library is gone. Some amount of CDs have survived, that I'll hopefully be saving.

We're staying here. Fewer horses than advertised.

Made it to Plymouth. Only had to drive through one (1) flooded Devonshire village.

We've been driving on the A303 for hours and not once have we listened to an acid house track.

Arrived in the UK, in spite of everything.

Minutes before leaving for the plane and our flight has been automatically rebooked, mwssung up the entire rest of the trip which is now in jeopardy.

@hughraine.bsky.social It's a Christmas miracle!

Struggling for a have that's defined gaming for me in 2025. Put some amount of time into Infinity Nikki at the start of the year and now Powerwash Simulator at the end of it, but both feel more like time spent than time *well* spent.

Has technology gone too far?

IT'S HERE! An annual treat since 2002(!), DJ Riko's Merry Mixmas --a seasonal blend of classics, covers and oddities--is now available for download. djriko.com

Wife watched a movie based on the Wham! hit Last Christmas, about a young woman who has a heart transplant and right after starts a romance with a mysterious young man, and if you're at all familiar with the original song you'll see at once what the "major twist" is going to be.

@pamtoo.bsky.social Found your ideal ornament

A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:

Are there any trusted lists of the best kids games of 2025? There must be something outside first party Switch 2 games, right?

Wanna smack in the nostalgia face?

@hughraine.bsky.social FINALLY.