That looks like Bamburgh Castle.

I watched the trailer misty eyed. It looks legitimately charming, and I was vicariously pleased for long-time Nintendo fans who splurged on a Switch that they get a chance to revisit a particularly undervalued nugget of Zelda history.

I started watching with low expectations, but the show has blown them out of the water with each passing episode. I’ve never read the book, but I’m a big fan of the first screen adaptation, The Haunting, released back in 1963. The less said about the 90s remake starring Owen Wilson and Catherine Zeta Jones the better.…

Nope. Can’t listen to this yet. I’m not ready for real life to mirror Metal Gear. I haven’t even started cyborg-ninja-Brazilian-dance-fighting classes yet.

Ahhh, I’d probably advise against that. I’ve read the English translation of Hideaki Sena’s book, and it doesn’t really lend itself well to the sci-fi fantasy format particularly well. No spoilers, but there’s a reason the games only tangentially link to it by making one of the lead characters possibly related to the…

When my copy of BOTW on Wii U arrived in the post the day after launch (thanks, Nintendo...), I knew I wouldn’t be able to get started for a while (thanks, family...), but still opened the box up to see whether there was any interesting printed material to peruse.

Congratulations, Stephen! I don’t know whether you’d mentioned that you’d become a dad anywhere else, and I just missed it, but this came as a total surprise to me.

Eurogamer’s original article was actually quite interesting, but perhaps not for the reason you’d expect.

I literally pounded the steering wheel with excitement when I heard Justin Webb announce this new trilogy on the Today programme earlier this morning. Everyone else on their morning commute probably thought I was having a seizure... Or perhaps just a fit of regular rush-hour road rage.

Pullman’s just being a bit facetious with his definition of what The Book of Dust has turned out to be. It’s part-prequel and part-sequel. He was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about the setting. He said the stories don’t completely focus on Lyra, but she’s a significant main character.…

Just going to repost my own theory from the announcement trailer comments. Since I’m unstarred, I’m not sure it ever got spotted by anyone. :(

Haven’t really kept up with GoW since Chains of Olympus; it all felt a bit too formulaic for my tastes from GoW 3 onwards. That said, this has really piqued my interest. If this technical demonstration is a reflection of the game as a whole, perhaps SM Studios have borrowed a bit of the Tomb Raider reboot’s gritty…