I'm around 70 hours into The Witcher 3 and the end is nowhere in sight- will definitely pick this up sometime next year, or possibly sooner if Britain leaves the EU and the vast wave of unemployment that's threatened catches me, assuming the electricity stays on

After being granted a copy by a lovely Gameological benefactor (thanks @Girard !) I'm hoping to persuade my girlfriend to play through Her Story with me in Big Picture mode. She's trying to get me to paint the bathroom so hopefully she'll acquiesce.

Half-Life 3: Back in the Habit

If only they'd called it "Thanks, Obama"

Man, a Quake reboot would be great- just imagine all the super-high-resolution brown in those textures

I absolutely detested it- the acting was infuriatingly cute and certain bits of the script might as well have been accompanied by a flashing sign that said "DO YOU SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE WE'RE COMMENTING ON MODERN LIFE". It's faintly amusing in places but in the main it's an awkward, witless mess.

I played The Last of Us on a knackered PS3 that had been left in a flatshare I was living in a few years back, and I had to play that basement section with the added constraint of needing to get through before the damn thing overheated. Something about that section seemed especially taxing for the poor thing; I…

That game took over my life for a while. It took me months to beat it normally, but far less to reach Yama and get the achievement for beating it in eight minutes. After that I uninstalled it and never really looked back, feeling as if I'd been freed from the same curse that affected Spelunky guy- except without the…

I would have picked the Galaxy Map music from Mass Effect- not quite the 'home' music, but something wonderfully soothing about it

Happy to help! Fab game once you get the hang of it

The combat is a bit prickly at times, until you're a bit upgraded. At the start in particular you need to focus on getting enough space to take enemies on one at a time and then parrying their attacks, followed by a quick slash or two. The magic is on a very slow cool down early on, which gets longer when rolling…

This weekend I’ll be mostly trying to persuade two new kittens to get out from behind the sofa, but if there’s any time for games I’ll be playing The Witcher 3. Now I’ve got a graphics card that can run it I’ve been sucked in properly. The writing, the art, the attitude, the choices, the humanity- it’s really quite a…

I'm off to Colombia with my girlfriend in two weeks, so we're celebrating Valentines Day by getting vaccinated for rabies.

Rage was pretty good, albeit rather stupid and severely truncated.

I'm still up for just blaming television.

Mostly Lil' Hunter- the random dropping out the air combined with the snipe attack and a crowded battlefield means I've found getting past pretty much 50 - 50. I've beaten it twice in early access- not since, though that's mostly due to not trying.

Nuclear Throne is excellent, albeit with some flaws- survival in a couple of the boss fights is pretty much a coin toss, and a bad run of weapon drops can make the end game impossible. Still, it holds the fine line between stupid and clever very well, and the music is wonderful. It's got a sentient rapping Illuminati…

I'm sure a patch that changes the location to Starbucks and replaces all the dialogue with musings on whether One Direction are 'totally gay' or not would be very welcome.

I uninstalled Fallout 4. I got fed up. I’d just reached The Institute headquarters, and after some rather unconvincing dialogue was asked to walk to different points on a map and have a conversation with a selection of hackneyed character archetypes.

Well he was a major character in Omikron: The Nomad Soul, so he was totally done with that 'games' thing well before all the squares started getting involved and started turning everything into Gears of Duty or whatever.