Simon Smith

Introducing… Felix Antonio If Bon Iver and Phoebe Bridgers had a French love affair... Felix Antonio might be their love child.

Introducing… Felix Antonio

If Bon Iver and Phoebe Bridgers had a French love affair... Felix Antonio might be their love child.

Bit ESC – Review Bit ESC is clever, surprising, and charming from start to end.

Bit ESC – Review

Bit ESC is clever, surprising, and charming from start to end.

Disc Golf City – Review A great choice for arcade sports game fans who enjoy tactile control schemes.

Disc Golf City – Review

A great choice for arcade sports game fans who enjoy tactile control schemes.

Can you teach an octopus to play the piano? A 6-month experiment to see if you can teach an octopus to play the piano...

Can you teach an octopus to play the piano?

A 6-month experiment to see if you can teach an octopus to play the piano...

Youtube analytics graphics showing my rhythm action Steam Next Fest video getting nearly a million impressions.

When YouTube very randomly promotes a niche video. Appreciate the exposure, but it is such a strange video to throw into the mainstream. First time in about 5 years anything has been picked up for a wider audience test.

Petrol Vibes F1 1988 Classic Silhouette Unboxing 2mm of steel, cut into an F1 beauty?

Petrol Vibes F1 1988 Classic Silhouette Unboxing

2mm of steel, cut into an F1 beauty?

Sending best wishes, mate. You got this! I'd be working out how I'd reorganise it Two Point Hospital style. In my thoughts x

Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) lays bare colonialism and trauma in forthcoming “birth name” debut Generational trauma and colonialism told through dark poetry and guitar noise

Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) lays bare colonialism and trauma in forthcoming “birth name” debut

Generational trauma and colonialism told through dark poetry and guitar noise

Christ, my spelling is atrocious this week!

Kalandra – ‘Mørketid’ Review An atmopheric collections of songs to warm your chill in the darkest of months.

Kalandra – ‘Mørketid’ Review

An atmopheric collections of songs to warm your chill in the darkest of months.

Yuuf – ‘Mt. Sava’ Review Slinky, breezy, and another musicianship showcase of instrumental rock breaking traditional genre boundaries.

Yuuf – ‘Mt. Sava’ Review

Slinky, breezy, and another musicianship showcase of instrumental rock breaking traditional genre boundaries.

Astro Nova – Review An incremental that doesn't take over and play itself? Hurrah!

Astro Nova – Review

An incremental that doesn't take over and play itself? Hurrah!

Red Panda: The Quiet Path – Review A game so empty it feels like a sandbox asset pack, not a game or experience.

Red Panda: The Quiet Path – Review

A game so empty it feels like a sandbox asset pack, not a game or experience.

Twilight Parade: Moonlit Mononoke – Review Pretty to look at, but lacking soul and challenge.

Twilight Parade: Moonlit Mononoke – Review

Pretty to look at, but lacking soul and challenge.

Get To Know Higher Plain Racing in 30 Questions! A casual F1-related Q&A.

Get To Know Higher Plain Racing in 30 Questions!

A casual F1-related Q&A.

Screenshot of RCT3 Wild, showing a rollercoaster in the distance, and animals such as gorillas, elephants and giraffes.

It's been 20 years since RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Wild! was released, the second and final expansion pack. I wrote a thing for my newsletter about the animal naming code that I worked on. The email has already gone out, but if anyone joins in the next 24 hours, I'll forward it industries.arganoid.com

Noise Canceler – Review Clever 2-button stereo rhythm action fun

Noise Canceler – Review

Clever 2-button stereo rhythm action fun

i owe so many video game designers an apology

Pined for this after the video, and then again after Day and Night. So much cool piano prep work, and I'd love to hear that expanded upon.

Cal & Bomba – Review Maths? As a main selling point for a game? I beg your pardon... Cal & Bomba takes a bold marketing decision to put its reliance on maths front and centre in what is an intriguing concept. I liken it to the board game Battleships, but with missiles, bombs, and chain reactions. Our hand-drawn duo are busy creating all kinds of potions and bombs to shoot up into the sky and clear the level of enemies.

Cal & Bomba – Review

Maths? As a main selling point for a game? I beg your pardon... Cal & Bomba takes a bold marketing decision to put its reliance on maths front and centre in what is an intriguing concept. I liken it to the board game Battleships, but with missiles, bombs, and chain reactions.…

Spooky Chase – Review Avoid your ghosts of previous runs to stay alive!

Spooky Chase – Review

Avoid your ghosts of previous runs to stay alive!

Live Vault – Beth Gibbons A spirited performance at the Sydney Opera House

Live Vault – Beth Gibbons

A spirited performance at the Sydney Opera House

Higher Plain Games announces budget paid playtesting for indie and solo developers Budget playtesting for indies, providing you access to a product owner and content designer whose content and products are used by millions.

Higher Plain Games announces budget paid playtesting for indie and solo developers

Budget playtesting for indies, providing you access to a product owner and content designer whose content and products are used by millions.

Miku Hatsune gets V6 demo track to celebrate her 18th birthday Demo track 'Prism' keeps the faithful Miku sound

Miku Hatsune gets V6 demo track to celebrate her 18th birthday

Demo track 'Prism' keeps the faithful Miku sound

Fresh Tracks – Review Rhythm Action games are some of my favourites, and every once in a while, a new game comes along that feels quite unlike anything else out there. Fresh Tracks feels like a fresh concept. It is a mixture of skiing and ski-track lane swapping, sword attacks, leaning about, and some rhythmic ducks and jumps. It's like a biathlon version of Oh Shape and Beat Saber, infused with mythical gods, but for the TV screen crowd, not for contorting yourself into all kinds of shapes in VR.

Fresh Tracks – Review

Rhythm Action games are some of my favourites, and every once in a while, a new game comes along that feels quite unlike anything else out there. Fresh Tracks feels like a fresh concept. It is a mixture of skiing and ski-track lane swapping, sword attacks, leaning about, and…

OMDAI Mexico is wrong to blame Liam Lawson for an FIA critical error There are plenty of other things to look at before we consider anything to do with the driver...

OMDAI Mexico is wrong to blame Liam Lawson for an FIA critical error

There are plenty of other things to look at before we consider anything to do with the driver...

YouTube video by T0PARK Natalie Imbruglia - Why

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Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall.

I don't think Natalie Imbruglia's B-sides get enough recognition. There are some absolute bangers. I miss 90s alt-pop so much.

Introducting… Dani Larkin Traditional folk songs and hymns get the atmospheric, haunted treatment.

Introducting… Dani Larkin

Traditional folk songs and hymns get the atmospheric, haunted treatment.

Fit and Fry Organized Grill – Review More of a morsel than a full course meal.

Fit and Fry Organized Grill – Review

More of a morsel than a full course meal.