A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Features
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Stay home and play games, everyone.
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The coronavirus pandemic is going to make it a weird year in games.
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I caught up with the self-declared “pretentious hipster nerd guy” behind Thomas Was Alone and John Wick Hex at the Yorkshire Games Festival.
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Rather than accepting them into its back, like the Famicom did.
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I spoke to former developers at Pyro Studios for a huge feature in Retro Gamer issue 204.
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A rather belated rundown of the games we’re looking forward to this year.
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I spoke to the folks behind some of the leading retro gaming podcasts for a feature in issue 203 of Retro Gamer.
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I can’t stop touching my Dark Samus. Send help.
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It’s been a busy year.
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I wrote about the anarchic 2000s TV show for this month’s issue.
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Check out this huge feature in the 200th issue of Retro Gamer.
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But it’s gonna take money / A whole lot of spending money / It’s gonna take plenty of money / To do it right, child.
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Beyond a Steel Sky! Iron Man VR! Eastward! More! All the greatest games from EGX London.
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It turns out it might have had something to do with Germany.
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Hey there little fella.
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For a massive six-page feature in Retro Gamer.
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I spoke to the legendary Julian Gollop about the past, present and future of X-COM.
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Bigging up Northeast England.
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Animal Crossing, Watch Dogs Legion and Link’s Awakening are just some of our stand-outs.
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The Link’s Awakening amiibo is ADORABLE.
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BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY
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The MIGHTY BEINGS of Amiga Power DISSEMINATE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION on how the magazine was made.
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I spoke to indies about the effect that Google Stadia and its ilk will have on the industry, in an article for GamesRadar+.
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I wrote a feature for Kotaku UK on the crushing disappointment of this much-hyped game back in 1994.
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This new Commandos-alike from Russian devs Alter Games is shaping up brilliantly.
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I spoke with the design director of Lego Star Wars as part of a feature for Kotaku UK.
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Hundreds of games are now released every month, while ‘games as a service’ ask ever more commitment from players. Surely something has to give?
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I wrote a feature for Retro Gamer about the Casio Loopy, an utterly fascinating Japan-only 1990s console that was aimed solely at girls.
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And from TV programmes, too, not to mention a sort of proto-Internet run by the Post Office. The 80s were crazy times. I wrote about it all in a feature for Wireframe magazine.
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I wrote a couple of chapters and a few other bits and bobs for Convergence, Charlie Fink’s excellent new book about augmented reality.
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Guntastic! Partisans 1941! Afterparty! LUNA! Here’s my pick of the greatest games from this year’s EGX Rezzed.
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This is it, old friend.
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 