Mersey Remakes

Mr Lavelle’s latest gaming expedition.

Two points of note:

I imagined the entire thing taking place in Longsight Job Centre, Manchester.
I read the entire thing in a Chris Morris voice.

You may draw your own conclusions from that information.

I didn’t know Lhasa De Sela passed away over new year. One of the greatest voices of the past 20 years. RIP.

Here’s my favourite two Tindersticks/Stuart A. Staples duets:

And some live stuff:

Cancer truly is a cunt.

Man, I just love typing 2010. It feels totally like the future.

Onwards with some links:

RPS Interview with Ian Bogost

About A Slow Year. Hard to disagree with the commentator who says that he’s made the 2600 look beautiful, really.

The new debate on Games As Ert

Glorious. Infectious. But is it Ert?

Obligatory Paleo Future link: Robots Will Kill Music

Hmm, they didn’t, did they?

BBC Micro News

It’s the news. As read by a BBC Micro. Of course. Genius. Thanks also to Craig Grannell for pointing me at this which is also pretty neat.

Talking of Craig…

Apple Censorship

and the frankly boggling “you’ll get addicted to porn if you’re not careful” comments that follow is well worth a read. Hypocrisy? Yuss, it’s all present and correct in App Store politics.

And err, talking of iPhone stuff, George Bray pointed me at this here game. It’s quite clearly NSFW and erm, not very realistic either. It’s not on the App Store (curiously enough) but y’know, thought I’d mention it anyway. Just be careful, looking at it may turn you into a raging slut or something.

Also, it would seem we’re all doomed, doomed I tells thee. Either that or someone just doesn’t understand how things work.

Dear Satan…

Hardcasual just goes from strength to strength.

Can Piracy Save The PC?

Timely in the wake of Ubisoft’s DRM-o-geddon fest and a welcome publicly availablenesslark for Stu’s Total PC Gaming piece.

Edge Mag: Sound Toys

Featuring my absolute favourite, so it gets a lovely link. Well done, Chris. You chose well.

Stupid tabloid shit of the week.

Courtesy of The Express.

“In more extreme cases, mostly boys aged between 14 and 16, some revealed they do nothing but play video games of an evening, even resorting to eating food with one hand while the other gripped a controller.”

SHOCKING! I’m sure you’ll agree.

More stupid!

This time it’s the CoE though. *sigh*

“I have seen its pernicious effect. A family member saw a so-called ‘game’ and he had nightmares. The images remained with him for months”

John Robb on The Brits.

Or rather, writing about The Brits. As if they’d be that classy.

Defending The Indefensible: Courtney Love

Everett True totally on form. I’m going to assume everyone has already picked up the (official and legal) torrent of PlanB Mag for more musical readage.