Author: Christian Donlan

[ad_1] I started running last year after reading Ben Wilson’s wonderfully Brysonian memoir, One Year Without Social Media, a memoir that properly soars whenever 5Ks and 10Ks are in the offing. I often walk with a stick for balance, so I assumed that running would be beyond me. It turned out it wasn’t. Sure, I…

[ad_1] For my second game of Golfie, I played through an actual dungeon. All of a sudden I was bouncing off huge pieces of stone, and knocking over candles. All of this on my way to the next hole. And suddenly everything made sense. Golfie Publisher: Yogscast Games Developer: Triheart Studios Platform: Played on PC…

[ad_1] Years back, when PomPom – genius developers of slithery arcade treats – wanted to patent an idea they’d just come up with, an idea about controlling elements of a game by dropping little bubbles of air around them to knock them this way and that, the terminology they came up with, I think, was…

[ad_1] These are my favourite worlds. The best worlds, if you ask me. The best of all possible worlds. Not open worlds, not free-roaming, certainly not endless or procedural worlds. Instead these worlds are a bounded place, a place as boldly self-contained – as compact and weather-tested – as a bird’s nest in the high…

[ad_1] To get this out of the way first, I’ve been playing Young Souls on Switch and it’s not an enormously brilliant port. This was once a timed Stadia exclusive, I gather, and while it’s entirely playable on Switch, the loading can be quite lengthy and the frame rate can be sort of jittery, which…

[ad_1] A couple of mornings with this delightful CCG. An old Edge editorial that has stayed with me spoke about what a perfect piece of technology a book is. I think Getting Up had just come out, with its luxuriously muddled menu systems based on the New York subway system. Anyway, compared to picking your way…

[ad_1] And it’s just an absolute treat. Gunborg: Dark Matters looks like a Metroidvania, but it isn’t. Something about the layout tricked me – warrenous 2D corridors, suggesting complexity, back-tracking, several flavours of door. In fact, this is an action game – a short, punchy action-platformer game with an emphasis of repeating levels until you ace…

[ad_1] When I first heard about the Nintendo Switch, I didn’t understand it. I am notoriously thick, so when a rumour went around that the next Nintendo would be like the Wii U but inside out, I couldn’t even picture it. Would we have to stand inside the tablet somehow? I saw wires tangling everywhere.…

[ad_1] At the start of every year I promise myself that this spring I will head out onto the South Downs late one evening and actually see the Milky Way. Light pollution: there are still certain spots on the Downs where it’s actually dark enough to see the galaxy that we are a part of.…