Author: Christian Donlan

Sad news this morning with the death of Paul Auster at 77. Like a lot of people, I suspect, I discovered his books in my late teens and early 20s. I read The Music of Chance at school after I’d spotted it at the library and, of all things, found the cover intriguing. Later, at…

I’m switching back and forth between Hades 2 and Rotwood at the moment, which is probably why I’ve found myself tangled up in how the two games are similar and how they’re different. Rotwood Publisher: Klei Entertainment Developer: Klei Entertainment Platform: Played on PC Availability: Out now on PC in early access. On paper, you…

Endless Ocean Luminous is the third game in a series I have never played, but that hasn’t mattered a bit. It’s a diving game and I can barely swim, but that hasn’t mattered a bit. It’s a game in which nothing much happens, and what does happen only happens very slowly. Don’t mind. It’s a…

Some weeks picking a favourite game is pretty easy, but there’s been a lot of lovely stuff in the mix of late. Stellar Blade brings a surprisingly pleasant sense of PS2 focus to proceedings, while Manor Lords and No Rest for the Wicked are both much-wanted early access games that promise to blossom in their…

I read a horrible theory recently that nature wants to turn lots of things into crabs. I think the theory was basically talking about crustaceans, but the gist of it was, regardless of the evolutionary challenges crustaceans faced, crabbiness seemed to be a preferred answer. The raised body and tail, the flat shell, the lofty…

I both hate and love geolocation games. Take GeoGuessr. I hate to play it myself because I’m clueless at it. But I love to watch it being played by others. It suddenly opens up. It becomes something thrilling. GeoGuessr is a geolocation game that runs on a browser or on your phone. Load it up…

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. And there were cocoons everywhere. Sadly, I had a swing at a few, and this turned out to be a mistake. Mothy, woven foes emerged and I was overwhelmed. I woke up, cursing, in a glade surrounded by standing stones. Ahead…

Hello! Our Game of the Week is Life Eater, and let’s just look again at that opening sentence from Bertie’s review: “Few game ideas will turn your head quicker than one about abducting people and murdering them.” That feels fair! There are lots of games about murdering people, sure, but the rest of it? Bertie…

I don’t know if you’ve ever taken off in a plane from somewhere like Gatwick. There’s this moment, about thirty seconds into the flight, where you get enough height and you look down and England has become a cheery parody of itself. It’s all green and grass and roughly stitched together fields. There’s even a…

When Fallout 4 came out with a full-scale Pip-Boy model, back in 2015, I’m deeply ashamed to remind you that we made Johnny Chiodini spend a week wearing it. How did it go? Oh my. Let’s just say this: over the course of that week the Pip-Boy got mould and also broke, but Johnny still…