I caught some of the men’s event yesterday. Very good stuff. I can’t believe the committee threw the event under the bus like that.

We’d love to have Mrs. Morffi come work in the UK. My wife works in a small Catholic primary school where three members of staff, including the headteacher, are happily married to their same-sex partners. Teachers are in demand and someone who can make pupils want to work hard for them, like it seems Mrs. Morffi can,…

Is this expansion worth its staggering price tag? Or am I better off sticking to Endless Legend?

Where I fall out with Civ specifically is that it’s pretending to be a historical game, but my Indians can build the Pyramids of Giza and Oxford University, and are being led by Gandhi four thousand years before he’s supposed to be alive. My brain doesn’t seem to like that. I’ll generally prefer to play either…

About three years worth of PS Plus in various 1- and 3-month increments, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Infinifactory, Shadow of the Colossus pre-order, Burnout Paradise, and around eighteen thousand Uncharted points.

I think the crux of my mistake was that I tried bluetoothing the controller to the PC before just using the cable. If you just plug it in via a standard USB-microUSB cable, and keep your finger the hell away from the PS button, you should be able to use it normally without repercussions. Still, I’m making sure my…

Yeah I’m trying. Their website has been fighting me though and their phoneline is closed, so I’m going to have to wait til tomorrow. The standard refund policy seems to be within 14 days as long as it hasn’t been downloaded or streamed. So if there’s a bright side to this, it’s that I’m no longer on the fence about…

I tried the DualShock 4 on the PC version of this today. Unfortunately it was still bluetoothed to my PS4, and for all the inputs I made on two and a half hours of Zodiac Age my PSN charged my card £270 in wallet funds and Playstation Plus subscriptions. Now I’m completely fucked and I don’t know what to do.

Has any player of games ever stopped and thought: man, that publisher’s been a bit scummy lately, but they got really good metacritic scores this year!

I’ve kinda got the hots for Rill Kata.

Not spiking the controller after a fighting game match is pretty much how I knew I’d become more adult than kid.

While I do think it’s fucked that cities are essentially being given the opportunity to pay Amazon for the pleasure of its patronage and not the other way around, a federal law banning the support of private business interests is not the way to go. If you’re looking to stimulate growth, you may wish to help subsidize…

I’d be the first person to criticize Brady’s off-field attitude, but come on. You don’t go after people’s kids. Ever.

I’m back on Endless Space 2, with its new DLC. If you like strategy games, give ES2 a go.

I didn’t know this stereotype existed, and it’s not something I’d encountered in my use of Twitch. Problem is, there are always going to be people who objectify women in any environment, especially the faceless exchange of the internet. At this stage, if you think you have any reason to call someone a “whore”, it’s…

Ten bucks for four hours of story? Might have to pass on that one.

Really enjoyed the game overall. But... Combat system was not enjoyable for me. It forced me into stealth mode very early on, which is fine, but then put cheesy boss battles in my way at the end, which was not fine.

I think it’s because the bits we love got put on the backburner. By far the best bits of both Inquisition and Andromeda are the linear story missions, but there are so few of those compared to the number of enormous worldspaces that Dragon Age had to gate them in several ways and ME Andromeda could actually be…

Yes the media has a toxicity problem about EA, but their approach to Anthem does scare me and so does your article, even. First there’s the systematic shutdown of developers. Everything about Visceral’s demise is a red flag, and after Andromeda it feels like BioWare is on probation. Your testimony of Bioware folks…

I managed to finish it last week, and though I love the setting and like the story I was struggling by the end. The gameplay loops are still repetitive—here’s a fort; sneak or smash up to your objective point; then maybe get told you’re doing a boss fight, which the combat system isn’t good enough for IMHO.