Andrei Pechalin

Haha yeah. We briefly considered staying one night in a fancy hotel etc but the kids are a little too young. In the end, turns out we would have lost the booking anyway. Never been vindicated by vomit before (except that one time I previewed Death Trash for you)

My wife and I have been together for 20 years. We spent the anniversary looking after vomitting children, frantically washing sick-covered bedding, and vomitting ourselves

Nothing like trying to do a review for a large-ish game while your daughter and then your wife are sick with a vomitting bug...on the other hand, who needs more than 4 hours' sleep anyway?

There is some especially potent lurgy wandering around this autumn. I've had two pretty nasty throat infections in the last 4 weeks (or possibly one that just never went away) and lost a kilogram. Hopefully that's the end of it

Deus Ex and Half-Life 2 still sufficiently high. Objectivity confirmed

In 20 minute blocks...

a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk and says `` great thanks '' . Alt: Jim from the American Office is sitting at a desk and says, dryly, "great, thanks"

When you ask your mate, who is a networking expert, which router to buy and you get a lecture about different systems without any recommendations regarding what to actually get

There is a release date

Sijjin performing at the Albert Hall in Manchester

Oranssi Pazuzu performing at the Albert Hall in Manchester

Blood Incantation performing at the Albert Hall in Manchester

One of my favourite things to do is get screamed at by middle-aged men. Here are Blood Incantation, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Sijjin screaming at the Albert Hall last night. Blood Incantation played the whole of the brilliant Absolute Elsewhere, plus a bunch of deeper cuts. It was all very enjoyable

Will put on my CV:

Producer on Wipeout*

*know someone who taught someone who was briefly involved with the development of Wipeout

As in the broadcaster? She went to my sixth form! Does that mean I have, like, 3 degrees of separation from Wipeout?

a south park cartoon says " ready for what " at the top Alt: A South Park cartoon saying " ready for what " at the top, taken from the HumancentiPad episode

Human CentAIpede

Without Rebecca there would be no Fallout, amongst many other excellent things 🙏

Hahaha that's very kind (I'm assuming it's a compliment!), thank you. But it's Edge; every review is intellectually driven! The last one I did was Dune

Haha. I reckon you can guess. Have you been able to guess in the past?

Hey, look, I'm in this one with a review

Read an article about how AI might be like the dot com bubble. At the end it said it was written by AI and then checked and refined by a journalist. I can't work out if that's ironic, or depressing, or good productivity, or what

Box art for the videogame Alpha Protocol

We have 007: First Light at home

My daughter's school awards points on an app for good behaviour. One half of me hates the gamefication and metricisation of everything, especially my children. The other half is imagining shoving other parents' faces into the app while screaming, "I am going to bury you underground"

"Git gud, son, I am disappoint"

Hot take: the golden age of TV drama is over; the golden age of TV science fiction has begun

One of the great things about listening to game soundtracks is that you will hear some amazing bit of composition, then you'll look up the title and it'll be called "Sewers" or "E3 Trailer Music"

If the Luddites were today, I wonder if they would have to put up with dozens of LinkedIn posts each day explaining how good and how terrible power looms are

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YouTube video by Prime Video Fallout – Season Two Teaser Trailer | Prime Video

Smart move to thoroughly ground Season 2 in the world building of the best "modern" Fallout game

Omg, wtf! Clearly I should have held on to mine

Is this the one that had a resales black market?

And yeah, exactly. I got sucked in purely on the strength of the prose. The gameplay is very good - there is a lot of emergent behaviour that can get completely absurd - but I'm just here for the Gene Wolfe vibes and the nice writing

Hahaha it's the purple skibidi, John. Or something