The false goal of visual realism in games – a springboard for at least three articles about video-game design that I’ve never written. Top of my list of crimes against mimesis in many recent third- and first-person games that I have seen […]

What could be better than Van Halen’s Jump? Only 8-bit arcade-game characters in MameJump that’s what. It’s a smashing little flash anim with the Van Halen song as backing, and Donkey Kong on lead vocals. There are plenty of geeky j[…]

Golborne Road in West London is a variety-show of foods. Portuganese pastries, Carribbean food stalls, Moroccan restaurants of course, and there’s even “Cockneys” just round the corner on Portobello Road selling cheap salty-mutton p[…]

Malic acid transforms candy from a snack into a form of commercially acceptable child masochism
Great sub-head from an old (1999) and longish Wired article about Extreme Sweets and ver kids that wuv them. Yesterday I saw a new device on my newsies co[…]

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Helvetica vs Arial a tiny shockwave game for the hardcore typographer. Helvetica, the original sans-serif, has for too long been losing out to the classic pincer action of a younger, trendier, Meta coming in from above and the lousier, cheaper, Arial[…]

Duck – tremendous as crispy pancakes, a bit dull as a massive chunk of meat. Just a warning.[…]

Certainly nobody else who blogs at freakytrigger, so this isn’t going to make me too popular. Yet Teachers is a funny show – it sits not too far away from shows like Two Pints of Lager – so why should there be such disdain?
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Puerile art that someone from B3TA sneaked into their local paper. Or so it would appear. If you don’t recognise what it’s actually a picture of, all the better for you. I promise the next thing I blog here will be proper culture, and no […]

Tony Hart’s Gallery still open to submissions from the public if you never managed to get a submission shown on telly. Tony was recently asked “Do you think you could take Rolf Harris in a fight?” in a recent B3TA interview.[…]