I freaking hated this intro. I wanted to get excited to race nice cars, but GT5 conspired to scupper my enthusiasm at every turn, not so much through the subject matter as through the dissonant jazz and apparent lack of interest in being a racing game. It would all have been forgivable as an objective of car…

Your one at the top shares all but one character with mine.

We should give Bungie a little credit for making some effort to turn their scaly spiky bad guys into something a little more nuanced. Some of them, anyway.

Yeah... correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that the point of remaking the older games? Sword and Shield deserve criticism for a lot of things, but the art style wasn’t one of them. Not everything should look like Animal Crossing. And the framerame still looks choppy, when better-looking games manage to run better too.

This is the problem with sunsetting and content removal in Destiny 2. In theory you’re gradually moving players to newer gear and content hubs, but in practice you’re stopping new players from getting what old players have, which in PvP has serious balance implications. I hate the feeling that I’m renting everything I…

This makes me realise that Azwel is just Algol not sitting in a chair.

I loved AC Odyssey. I feel like the Ubi hugeness really worked for it — you could land on a sunsoaked Greek island, have a self-contained adventure, and move on to the next one in pursuit of your overall objective, still feeling like you achieved something. It succeeded at channelling the Homerian epic it named itself…

This casting would be better if Kevin Hart played Lilith and Cate Blanchett played Roland.

I enjoy The Sims, but I could never fathom spending the asking price for all the DLC. As you say, most of them are either overpriced stuff packs that are totally unnecessary to the base experience or gimmicky expansions whose content is either very specifically-themed or walled off in its own area. To date I don’t…

Ash... don’t oversell it. Mass Effect is without doubt my favourite series of games of all time, but if you gush too much you put people off. See my best friend, to whom I oft gushed about all these things, yet who bounced off the game when it wasn’t a perfect shooter or RPG, with characters he already knew a bit too…

To Derek’s point, snowy levels aren’t just about adding a single gameplay mechanic. I mean, they can be just slippery, and that can be great. The challenge it creates in one of Crash Bandicoot 2's later levels is one of the best in platforming. But it can also be used to introduce more permanent gameplay mechanics; obs…

Welp... time to enable my VPN’s internet killswitch.

Nothing we didn’t know already, and still nothing to show? If they thought this was worth hyping up, I’m concerned.

“temporarily and permanently”

Seeing this live was horrifying; I thought Grosjean was a dead man. So many FIA safety features were put to the test this weekend. The halo, the medical car, the fireproof clothing... they all came through. It is extraordinary that the man still exists.

For all the saga of Axehead seems a tale of loss, you really should see the other guy. The corpse a short distance away from him was thoroughly decapitated.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth them patching. It’s not just technically broken; its artistic approach falls short of the original so badly that it might as well have a different name. A remake should have prioritised the cel-shaded look over fancy textures — there are some fantastic-looking games with this…

Please don’t tar us all with the same brush. Opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and women’s rights has no platform in the mainstream political spectrum of the UK. Even our conservative party actively supports these rights. What this means is that bigotry isn’t all gathered in one easy-to-find place like it…

You ended this article like I ended my high school creative writing essays and I love it.

I was excited to try the last expansion and hopefully get some of my favourite mons missing from the base game, but then I figured that sounded a bit too much like the bargaining stage of grief and I spent my energies elsewhere.