Mike Diver

Context.

If you have to ask AI for cool things about your kids, for qualities in them worth shouting about, or at the very least three bullet points for a teacher to describe them with in assembly or simply in class sometime, you're a massive shit of a parent and I hope your kid/s work that out before long.

This happened to me. Had a page when I worked in music. Which was quite surreal but, a thing that happened. One day I went to show someone and lo, and behold, it'd gone. I assume because someone there rightly wondered, who's this guy? And killed it. Fair enough. But a fun thing, nonetheless.

Day Bookaboutokcomputer Seems about right, @kaizengameworks.com ?

Chat Pile's 'Why' plays.

Not much of a view from my hotel balcony, so I brought my own entertainment.

Tfw you realise: same person. (I watched Weapons last night.)

Henry Moore, 1953.

Tfw your preferred late-night comedy modifier is tomfoolery but Netflix's mood-based curation only covers high jinks and silly sausages. Pfft.

Game owns, get it while the gettin’s good!

If I had a magic work wand, [place of work] would buy Arkane. But I don't so I'll just cross my fingers that we don't see another studio disappear forever.

Aaah, that's Tom Skerritt away. A long life, one hopes well lived. Always Captain Arthur Dallas, and forever more.

Leaves on the ground. A little nip in the air. It's a first American Football album sort of morning. I don't make the rules.

Happy 32nd birthday to Rebellion's Alien vs Predator for Atari Jaguar. Read all about the making of this (relatively speaking) killer app for Atari's underperforming console, with new interview material and BTS stories, in Aliens: The Video Games. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Aliens-The-V...

If you're a Kindle user, you may be interested in my history of those games-playing things under your tellyboxes, which is just £1.99 right now on said digital format. Here's what it looks like.

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I had candy corn for the first time ever today (thanks, visiting American colleagues) and can concur.

This book is super.

New reading materials.

#randomgamesaturday

Posted a couple of these, this morning. Thanks, those folk, for ordering one. I've two or three copies left now. If you're in the market for a signed/personalised one. (Or not, but they cost more from me than Amazon, so I need to offer some sort of perk?)

(More Silver Pines later) Thing is. Something can be little more than the sum of its parts, in a good way.

One single day. Solicitor's office. 2002. Somewhere near Hendon? Just so joyless I called late on day one and left a message saying I wouldn't be back. I chose unemployment instead. Also the only job I've ever had where I had to dress formally. Brrr. Not for me.

To the two chaps you travelled from Clacton for the event last night, bought books and asked questions: bloomin' heck, thank you. You're absolute superstars for doing a five-hour round trip to hear some guys talk about Alien games. I hope you're having a chill Thursday. Your support: incredible.

Tonight at Loading Bar, Brighton. luma.com/p4pjgibd

Gonna have both of these Alien 3s playable tonight, on original carts (albeit through newer, HDMI-friendly hardware). Did you have a favourite between the SNES and Mega Drive versions?

My kids' friends only ever ask me about GTA and CoD. My kids themselves? When we're getting a Switch 2 so they can play Splatoon Raiders.

Tonight at Loading Bar, Brighton. luma.com/p4pjgibd