How often do people use mouse pads nowadays? If one this size exists there’s certainly a market for them, but none of the the mice in our office even need a mouse pad any more.

How often do people use mouse pads nowadays? If one this size exists there’s certainly a market for them, but none…

Articles like this one reinforce the fact that Sonic as a pop culture icon is kind of flabbergasting. He’s a character that inspires TV shows, comic books and fashion lines and he’s stayed in the pop culture landscape, uninterrupted, for over 25 years. He’s as popular as he’s ever been, but the games, the thing we…

I’ve been using a white SSB controller to revisit my Gamecube collection. It’s probably one of the best-looking controllers I own, and just look at the box it comes in!

The Nostalgia Critic did a video recently about dubbing actors in films. I think it presented a pretty nuanced take on the issue.

The Australian one looks like a screenshot from a Deus Ex game.

The common thread between the two acts is that they’re the last thing you’d do in that situation, and can be done much better elsewhere.

I guess that makes sense, but if it’s actively preventing people from using the game feature (irrespective of how capable they are of doing so) it doesn’t seem to have worked out too well. I imagine it wouldn’t fit with the game world, but something like GTA Online’s strategy (lots of apartments in a single building)…

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.