The place I most want to go in the world

Posted in apocalypse, travel on November 5th, 2010 by RevStu

Is this:

(Click pic for video.) Sadly I've only got until January to save up the air fare to New Orleans. Man, why can't there be hurricanes in Derbyshire?

More stills after the jump. The closest I've ever managed, meanwhile, is this.

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The new last next level

Posted in awesomeness, games, ps3 on November 4th, 2010 by RevStu

God dammit. Now I probably have to go and buy something in the Playstation Store again. There goes another two hours.

That's because the latest version of Atari has just released (for £3.99 each) a bunch of their old late-1990s PS1 remakes into the Store for the PS3 and PSP, and one of them is Pong – The Next Level, which annoyingly is one of the greatest videogames of all time.

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Pussies galore

Posted in culture salvage, navel-gazing on November 1st, 2010 by RevStu
 
Alert readers may recall a few weeks back I gave an interview to a blog written by a bunch of – well, let's call them "games journalists" for want of a more accurate term. A straightforward enough business, you might think – ask questions, get replies, publish, done. It didn't work out quite that simply.
 
Andy Kelly (left) and Mike Gapper (right), yesterday.
 
While the interview caused a huge hit spike on the site and an unprecedented number of comments (over 100 compared to their usual three or four), this sudden influx of visitors and attention caused great consternation among some of the blog's editors other than the charming and talented young writer who'd done the interview.
 
Two of them – a pair of particularly lily-livered Future Publishing corporate drones – whined all over Twitter and elsewhere that the (incredibly mild) arguments in the comments were so beastly and upsetting that they were considering deleting the entire site, rather than attract all these awful, horrid people (ie, readers) to it by speaking to such a nasty man.
 
Long story short, to spare the hurt feelings of the less-popular stories on their blog (which is to say, all of them) the interview has been quietly deleted. So I've retrieved it and posted it below for posterity.
 
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