Having a literal housing shortage in an entirely virtual environment is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.

The Sorting Hat seems to decide your Hogwarts house based on your aptitudes and your ambitions; the things you have the potential to do. It’s hideously invasive, especially when you consider the film version of the Hat goes through its entire thinking process within earshot of everyone else in the school.

I realise that, you know, this is the internet and it’s raison d’être is to obsessively take apart the minutiae of everything. But scrutiny of any aspect of Harry Potter is almost sure to come down to ‘a wizard did it’ sooner or later without any loss of clarity. If the Sorting Hat doesn’t do its job properly it’s…

That orange games console is kind of gorgeous.

Logging in and seeing I had 28 notifications was an interesting moment.

If Doomfist is announced it’s going to make the Numbani payload a bit problematic...

Rayman’s one of my all-time favourite games, and it’s kind of fascinating to see that title in its early stages. Maybe I’ll check it out.

Rayman’s design is (apparently) the result of hardware limitations around the time he was created. The developers couldn’t get his limbs to animate properly on consoles, so he and everyone else in the first game is completely limbless. It actually pays off in a big way for the final boss, however, and it’s a massive…

You make comics? Do you have a website I can visit?

We’ve also had a couple of instances where cartoons like Steven Universe were censored for having scenes that were vaguely homoerotic... and this is in a show that’s pretty creative in its approach to same-sex relationships. It’s difficult for me to really give you an idea of the gay experience in the UK, as I’m not…

I think talking about the notion of gay acceptance is extremely difficult, on the basis it’s impossible to make any kind of general comment on the matter. While in the Western world we’ve made great strides towards acceptance of LGBT people (congratulations Germany! Even if Merkel was against it) there’s still plenty…

I feel like this would be a stronger article if it weren’t for the fact Devil’s Crush is kind of awesome. It’s certainly a very solid pinball game, at least, and I’m glad it lives on.

It’s annoying when something doesn’t get a rerelease... or even a first-time release. Here in the UK, we apparently missed out on a bunch of VC and PS1 Classics, as well as Katamari Damacy and Re: Chain of Memories (at least until we got the HD rerelease of the latter.) And, invariably, the games you want to play cost…

Gamecube component cables go for something like £200 on eBay at the moment. Thank God the Wii has Gamecube & component support...

It’s a very enjoyable retro platformer with an innovative weapons system, great controls and a pretty moving story. The final boss in the 3DS version is an utter bitch, however. Not sure if that’s changed for the Switch version.

If I had to guess, it’s probably one of three reasons a retro game doesn’t get a digital re-release. The console maker can’t get the rights, it’s too hard to emulate or it’s simply not profitable enough to do so. I don’t know anything about Radiant Dawn, but I’m betting it’s one of these reasons.

How easy would it be to emulate Gamecube games on today’s hardware? The Gamecube’s analogue triggers in particular would be hard to replicate, and they’re a vital part of games like Super Mario Sunshine.

The Banjo games are owned by Microsoft now and have appeared on Xbox, so we’ll never see them on a Nintendo system again. They DID keep Banjo playing the Game Boy in one of the options screens, however.

Yeah, Bing Bong’s death is sad but an entirely understandable part of the film. People set aside childish things as they grow up; we leave things behind. It entirely makes sense for Bing Bong to vanish from Riley’s inner landscape... well, entirely.

In Mario Kart Wii I’ve gone through a weird process of loving karts (Turbo Blooper 4 lyfe) then easing ever so gently into bikes to the point that I can’t imagine using anything else. Then I had to unlearn everything I’d learned for Mario Kart 7. If I ever get a Switch, Mario Kart 8 is going to be an interesting…