Those of you who play Elite Dangerous with me will know we adopted Ricky Gervais’ excellent song, Slough, as our theme tune. Then the wonderful Jemma Johnson made a cover for us and no... Read more
Earlier this month I had the very great pleasure of hosting the WISE Awards 2015. It was definitely an evening of celebration and inspiration, honouring the people and organisations leading... Read more
This weekend I streamed my first play of the hugely popular and in some quarters controversial space simulation game, Star Citizen. Still in pre-release testing it’s not so much a game... Read more
Last weekend I was incredibly lucky to get a couple of special guests on my Twitch stream to talk us through Chaos Reborn, an excellent new turn based strategy game that has been described a... Read more
If you’re travelling light and don’t want to pack a smartphone speaker all you need is a couple of paper cups and an empty loo roll tube! STEP 1: Template to cut holes to fit the... Read more
In part 1 of this two-part feature we looked at the birth of the gaming industry, which was a crazy ride over four decades of rapid progress. Considering the inexorable spread of mobile acro... Read more
It’s amazing the power of a quote, especially when it’s attached to a vaguely familiar name from the media and expresses a sentiment you wouldn’t normally expect to hear fr... Read more
Over the past four decades the home video gaming market has gone from zero, to hero – adding eleven zeros in fact as global revenue for the industry is now approaching $100 billion. It... Read more
Reports of life-streaming app Periscope being overrun by perverts and claims that female streamers are routinely bombarded with sexual harassment are rife, and while I’m not saying that does... Read more
Somewhere in the world the sun is rising. And where the sun rises there is breakfast radio playing its cheery mix of music, chatter and travel bulletins to get the world to work. Global brea... Read more
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