John's Blog

March 19, 2020

Temporary speed

Everything seems to be shutting down in slow-motion. At the same time it’s all happening in a disturbingly fast way. Tonight there was an ambulance at my neighbours house, across the street. It’s a lovely five story building that I can see while working, and that I’ve often looked at longingly. This time I looked…
February 28, 2020

Tales From The Loop

This new Stålenhag based trailer looks great and it will be interesting to see what TV story they can wrap around the book. Another positive is that it gives me an excuse to feature one more of the book’s images.
February 14, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx

I’ve been a big Half-Life fan since it came out in 1998. It’s one of the few games from that period I still remember playing and, at the time, I was very excited to use my shiny new nVidia TNT2 card to get half-decent 3D graphics. This release date announcement of the upcoming Half-Life VR…
February 10, 2020

Senua’s Saga

I’ve had Senua’s Sacrifice for almost two year and just never gotten round to playing it. Part of the reason is that it’s quite an intense game. I don’t mean that it’s physically intense, or that it’s scary, just that it puts you in the role of someone with psychosis and it’s not really suited…
February 1, 2020

Masochistic Ambition

There’s little more to say.