God of War Ragnarok has been underwhelming so far I am in the early stages of God of War Ragnarok. The first game was a brilliant revitalisation of a game series which had had its origins and gameplay strip-mined by a succession of inferior sequels during the 2000s and early 2010s. This game, after playing for 5 ...

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My DVD rip of The Devil Wears Prada includes the closed-caption audio and not the regular audio A Chromebook is a perfectly reasonable development device using the built-in Linux support – git, Sublime Code and my particular build toolchain all worked fine

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Because it’s so much warmer, and the evenings are so much longer, I managed to get out of the house more than once during the week instead of just walking between a single-digit number of rooms. Novel! I even got out on my bike, which was a massive relief – more of this to come I hope. In a break from getting killed by Theseus and the Minotaur in Hades, I have picked up

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When I was about 5 I got my first ever “album”, which I saved up for by collecting tokens from boxes of Weetabix. I am delighted to see it is listed on discogs.com. I listened to it endlessly and it shaped my musical tastes for the rest of my life. I had to take a lot of time off work ...

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I have (nearly) finished the main story mode of Star Wars: Squadrons, which is short, but satisfyingly so, and I’ll definitely give the earlier levels another try. It really wants you to play online though (of the 48 trophies on the PS4 version, only 17 can be completed in single player and some of those are pretty t...

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We are nearly at the Christmas holidays! Come on people, you can make it! We took our daughter to see Father Christmas making his way down a nearby road, on a sleigh being pulled by a tractor. We are in the west country, after all. As part of my “classics I’ve never read” series I am reading Little Women...

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Our Christmas tree is up! My daughter may actually explode with excitement before Christmas arrives but hopefully she’ll hold on for the next 4 weeks. She is half way through dividing her epic Christmas list into three categories: “don’t really need”, “can wait until my birthday” and “can’t wait – ask father Christmas” We have loads of ice lollies in our freezer left ove...

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Dear neighbours: starting your DIY on our shared bedroom wall at 8am on Sunday morning is Just Not Right. The Queen’s Gambit was bloody excellent. Wonderfully made, shot and styled throughout. A joy to watch. Paper Mario and the Origami King is my new low-tension story-progression game. I have started reading ...

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I hate condensation. Everything gets wet. You can’t see out of windows. It’s rubbish. I finished Trine 4! I loved it, even though the very end was a little underwhelming. My daughter made a cake! A Titanic cake! We are now half-way through eating it and it is looking like a slightly more lifelike representation than we originally intended. As of writing this, I’...

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This week has mostly been brought to you by Marks and Spencer’s Extra Mature and Red Leicester cob. Deeeeelicious. My son is playing Undertale all the time. I think he’s on his 10th or 11th playthrough. When he’s not playing, he’s listening to the soundtrack. I am still playing

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