I’m not entirely sure if anyone still checks this blog, but if I do have a loyal readership (thank you!), you are advised that I am now writing for the UKotaku blog, so get over there and check me out! I have this killer article planned in the near future.
It hardly seems possible. But on [...]
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10 Weeks Later
February 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: meta · norwich · writing
The History of the British Video Games Industry, Part I: The Speccy Years
November 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
It’s finally up, thanks to drunky (who also supplied the whimsical captions). Clive Sinclair! Spaceships! Essex! It’s all here and more!
History of the British Video Games Industry, Part I
Also, if you’re on digg, you can “digg” it which is apparently good.
A Brief History of British Video Games
November 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Someone posited on the Inconvenienced forums that Britain was the Hollywood of gaming. Others disagreed. I wasn’t sure what to think, so I decided to do something insane: write an essay on the history of the British video games industry, which is now worth £2bn a year, internationally renowned, etc.
Unfortunately, it has got slightly out [...]
Tags: writing
October 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment
Using VNC to control my PC from the other side of the world is a curious sensation.
Also, due to a convoluted series of events, one of my Ambrose Hopkins stories is on Digg. Ambrose Hopkins 3 is coming soon, I imagine. Just stayed in today, watching MST3K and Family Guy. Bought some American cheese. Can’t [...]