It’s not a “steak fry”, it’s a chip, you deplorable Colonial bastards. That’s your problem here. And start spelling words with “U”s in the right place, and stop putting letter zeds in places a letter “S” should go.

Add a splash of vinegar, like red wine or (IMO) balsamic. Makes those little red babies pop.

Sticking some balsamic vinegar in there would turn it into liquid gold.

20 years old this year. Kinda weird when all your favourite songs from your teenage years start being old enough to drink.

Instant Pot isn’t available in the UK but the equivalent (and equally infomercial-tastic) Pressure King Pro series is pretty great. Only got one at the weekend but the combination of cooking fast, having a saute function, and having a timer with keep-warm option is a total winner for people like me who work too much…

Instant Pot isn’t available in the UK but the equivalent (and equally infomercial-tastic) Pressure King Pro series…

This is worse than when I discovered the Commandoverse, where the country of Val Verde links Commando to the entire Die Hard universe and (according to Steven de Souza) Predator, which by extension also links all the Alien, Predator and AvP movies into it, plus Prometheus. So technically there could be a scenario in…

It’s like the Pendolino trains that run from Glasgow to London. They were announced as having a top speed of about 180mph so the news were falling over themselves to talk about these new trains running from Glasgow to London in two hours. Unfortunately that only works if you don’t, y’know, stop to let passengers on…

Yeah, you need to look to France or Germany for good trains, the UK rail network is a hot mess. If I want to get from Glasgow to Brighton I need to take four trains run by three separate companies on tracks maintained by a fourth completely different company, and there’s a 70% chance one of them will smell of piss…

It’s always worth remembering that this was the first time they’d done a game with a fully licenced soundtrack of popular songs. And they killed it. Driving in the rain to Crockett’s Theme has a deeply visceral feeling to it for me; one of my earliest memories is being in the back of my dad’s car at night, looking up…

I had to rescore that advert as part of my Sound Synthesis module at Abertay University, I’m amazed someone remembers the original!

You are going to have a very fun few weeks. Except for the extremely sad bits. Those are sad.

True fact.

I think Chris Roberts will have given a big sigh of relief when this lawsuit turned up; finally, something he can use as a scapegoat to blame for the game being cancelled.

I think I may have described the entire team at Visceral as “evil, heartless bastards” when I got to that point, before questioning their parentage repeatedly. Great bit though.

Half a million copies would equate to about $15-20mil in actual revenue to EA, not deducting marketing spend. Unless DS3 was made on a shoestring it would’ve barely broken even.

Reminds me a lot of the Deep Forest Raceway track in the original Gran Turismo, and I assume it’s an inspiration for it.

How good was that co-op mode though? Great times with my brother playing that.

Best I can manage is a £20 vape, a case of Tennant’s Lager, and an ‘09 Ford Fiesta. Fuck you Bond!

I honestly cannot work out what important work to solve the worlds ills you think this article, which is about an amusing goof-up by a developer and the ESRB, is causing, would be my point.

It’s a fantastically prescriptive process, rating a game. Any amount of scantily-clad ladies gets you a T.