Archive for January, 2010

Amid the veritable ocean of internet articles relating to the iPad, what can Virtually Past It bring to the table? Well, jokes about wanking, bumming, Stephen Fry and hypocrisy, that’s what. You simply cannot find this sort of abject rubbish anywhere else on the internet.

I was messing about with xtranormal.com, and I made this. Took me about an hour. It basically addresses all the inherent dangers of playing video games, via the medium of swearing. Lots of swearing. It’s not big or clever, but then, nor am I. Well, I’m reasonably big. But not clever. I got an ‘N’ [...]

I’m moving house. It is not, to be fair, the usual nightmarish convergence of impatient buyers, wild-eyed and slightly desperate sellers and estate agents. (Remember in the 80s, when it was very much the done thing to regard estate agents as inherently evil? We don’t seem to do that anymore. We should.) But still, it’s [...]

Wow. Video games have taken a real battering this past week. First Ron Jeremy says that games are more harmful to young people than pornography, then Hugo Chávez sticks his oar in, describing games as ‘poison’. First: the facts. Ron Jeremy is a porn star. Seriously, he is. Stop laughing. He really is. For some [...]

Video games are great. Films are great. So why are films of video games absolutely not great, ever?


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