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Hello! First, my apologies for the lack of an update on Monday. I bashed out a few hundred words on something, but wasn’t really sure it was going anywhere. I asked myself, ‘What’s my point here, really?’ and the answer was, well, I dunno. A newsletter allows me
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Sir Clive Sinclair, pioneer of British home computing, died yesterday morning after a long illness. He was, perfectly, 81 years old. His influence on the story and shape of the UK game industry cannot be overstated, but I am not sufficiently equipped to do it justice. You read Hit Points,
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It must have been carnage at Nvidia HQ the other day, after a GeForce Now database leak inadvertently revealed the names of dozens of unannounced, in-development games, some of them made by the biggest and most powerful companies in the industry. How on Earth do you respond to something like
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Hit Points is fifty! Heavens above. It’s now a little over three months since I first unveiled it to the world, and with a nice round number giving me a milestone worth marking, I thought I’d use today’s installment to talk about how it’s going, how
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A warm welcome back, then, to not-E3 — for that was surely what we saw from Sony last night. Which is better, do we think? A widely trailed annual event, upon which the eyes of the gaming globe are firmly fixed, and for which expectations are always through the roof? Or
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I’m in a bit of a hurry today. The youngest came home from nursery yesterday and promptly threw up, and now faces a mandatory two days at home. And so, just two days after his big brother went back to school, my wife and I are dancing a familiar
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When I was out and about representing Edge back in the day, I would often be asked what my favourite part of the job was. My answer was always the same: the first day of work on a new issue, when I would sit in front of a mostly blank
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Last night I restarted Ghost Of Tsushima, a game I played for a few hours at launch but never quite clicked with (I have a 400-word rant in me about dodge-button placement in action games, and the insanity of shipping a modern game without fully remapabble controls, but will save
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While we in the west talk a lot these days about China’s game industry, our discussions typically focus on its activities over here. That is quite understandable: it feels like scarcely a week goes by without Tencent or NetEase pumping investment into another renowned western developer or publisher. But
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Well, there goes not-Gamescom. It’s been a quiet week on the whole, but there are certainly a few things worth discussing. First up: further evidence of a creeping return to the bad old days of pre-rendered trailers. Why are we doing this again, when today’s hardware is so
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Now, look, I like live-service games. Some of my best friends are etc and so on. While it’s fashionable to complain about a breed of games that are not designed so much to be played as to be lived in — heavily social things that are endlessly updated and (hopefully)
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Despite spending ten years in the videogame media, I have never been to Gamescom. Early in my career, my employer didn’t consider it big enough to bother sending anyone to. (One former colleague used to pay his own way out there, then make thousands writing up what he’d
