Colm Ahern

Pep Guardiola is right. You Win Again is a banger and every young person should be aware of it.

Mucho Betis.

Things are looking up.

Patrick Dane, longtime games and entertainment journalist and News Editor at This Week in Videogames, has died in a motor vehicle accident. He was 34 years old.

Absolutely horrific, unfathomable news. Whenever our paths crossed back in the day, Patrick would always greet me with a huge smile and a big hug. An absolute gentleman. My heart goes out to his family.

Merry Christmas

Silksong? That's nice. Milksong? YES.

Does the definitive, essential Batman story include the singer from James?

Finally put on the first episode of the new Dexter, absolutely furious at myself that I can’t shake the Michael C. Halls. Especially true after that dreadful prequel series. (SPOILER FOR THE FIRST 18 SECONDS) Lithgow says “Hello, Dexter Morgan” and I’m opening my gob, ready to inhale the slop.

Director’s commentary with Ben Affleck, please.

Creature in the Well was a wonderful pinball-infused hack and slash game from a few years ago. Your sword is basically a portable flipper, and you fire balls at bumpers in a room, destroy all of them, and then move onto the next room. It's great fun. store.steampowered.com/app/852300/C...

#1: Something like Metal Gear Acid. It would do better now. But obvs not called that or using Solid Snake #2: Something like Metal Gear Rising. People quite liked it. But obvs not called that or using Raiden #3: Something like Snake vs Monkey from MGS3. But obvs… etc #4: Bettal Beer Bollid?

Greece is pretty good.

It's 25 years since Deus Ex was released, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

Oh, to be in the room while Christian Bale and Michael Caine are promoting the upcoming Batman Begins video game while slating the medium. Absolute magic.

It's 20 years since Batman Begins was released, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

It's 20 years since Haunting Ground was released, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

Didn’t Ben Elton already try this at least once, maybe twice?

“The kids are gonna have to wait - it’s not Bloodborne, but it looks like Bloodborne… You see this? I can tell I’m going to be so good at it… does it have a character creator? My character will be so handsome. The best build. Much better than Macron’s. He thinks his will be better… pathetic.”

Bananzas.

It’s mental watching a full Trump speech instead of clipped up for the news or Last Week Tonight.

RANDY PITCHFORD JUMP SCARE

It's nearly 10 years since Invisible Inc first came out, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

Us two months ago:

It's over 20 years since Metal Gear Acid first came out, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

Liverpool. Hamburg. Newcastle. The Maw of Chaos.

It's almost 25 years since Thief 2 came out, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o