Over the last few weeks, I've played two indie games on my shiny new PS4 that were unlike anything I've played before. Both were so beautiful and affecting that I feel compelled to review them. Anyone who thinks that video games are all hobbits and hand grenades might have their minds changed by these...

First up: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture ( Read more... )

Along with the rest of the western world, G and I are prone to staring mindlessly at property porn on one or the other of our glowing rectangles ( Read more... )

Eek. Every time an interesting-looking video game comes out, it seems to be designed for multiplayer. Is this the way gaming is going? It gives me fear ( Read more... )

Argh. Why am I playing Dragon Age? Someone make me stop. I thought it would be like Skyrim but it isn't.

I've managed to stealth through my entire work career finding ways to be specialist and senior without having to manage people... and yet I appear to be spending my free time micro-managing a team of useless tossers who keep dying every five ( Read more... )

I watched a film on TV the other day without bothering to check the IMDB score first. Let my error be a lesson to you all.

It's called Motherhood, and stars Uma Thurman as a woman living in Manhattan, with two apartments and two kids attending school & daycare. One of the apartments is used exclusively for typing blog posts and is hence known as ( Read more... )

How to tell if you've over-rimmed?

You watch a news piece about the Danish People's Party and think "Nords!" (...while drinking coffee out of your "No lollygagging" mug)

I think Skyrim has broken me. I've somehow added a fiddle-dee-dee song by a Finnish Heavy metal band to one of my playlists. Feel free to stage an intervention.

(NB: I promise it's not Lordi).

...I am off work and the microbe is at nursery.

LET RIMMING COMMENCE!

It's been a while since I popped in here for a square-eyed/bookish ramble, so here we go...

I shall start with TV (spoiler-free)

We have season 3 of Thronesy Goodness at home. I think I might have to re-watch the last ep of season 2 tonight as a reminder, then break into S3. (Kindly applaud my restraint. Not only for waiting this long to watch ( Read more... )

Rimmers! The Skyrim theme music is on Spotify ( Read more... )