I just felt a little bit depressed when this month’s issue of Develop came through the door and I instantly recognised the building pictured in its cover feature as Sega of America’s old headquarters in Townsend Street, San Francisco. More »

“I was the weird new kid nobody would talk to”, explains air hostess Alice Wong of her experience growing up, one day realising that “making friends is all about knowing how to talk to people”. Yes that, and… WAIT! Look how ADORABLE AND HAPPY SHE IS! More »

Q: Why are pirates called pirates?
A: Because they “Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrre”!
That, my friends, is one of my favourite jokes. I’m fully aware that this may undermine any right I have to sit in judgement of this comedy film, but I don’t care…  More »

Brownie points to Destructoid, who caught up with a man called Ken — Sonic’s brand manager, and rightly so, judging by his enthusiasm in this interview. More »

As one of the lucky few ever to experience the 'Milo' project first-hand, I always thought it was a huge shame that it never made it into the public domain (not even as a curious bit of entertainment DLC on Xbox Live). Now its creator, Peter Molyneux, has finally spoken about how disappointed he was too - and admitted it could have been a part of his decision to quit as Microsoft's creative boss. More »

Another year, another offering from Pixar beloved by critics and adults and kids and whoever else has a functional heart and brain. Somehow, Pixar manages to cultivate wonderful creativity and originality in almost every film they make… More »

Earlier this week, a somewhat touching comment was left on this site by a reader named Betablocker who said he has been following my work since SegaWeb (i.e. a long, long time ago) and is sad that I do not blog as much as I used to. So I wanted to take this timely opportunity to talk about why that is, and what I'm actually working on these days, and why it's so exciting. More »