Oh god imagine if muppets were like mogwai and they turned into boglins if you fed them after midnight

Man, sometimes this website has the juice

eXistenZ (1999, dir. Cronenberg)

I loved (but was always terrible at) Chuckie Egg. We had a copy on our home BBC Micro, and when my primary school dubbed me and my friends "computer monitors" (lol), we spent any time we weren't formatting floppy disks (seemingly 99% of the job) playing it.
I imagine I'd not be much better at it now

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

To celebrate our 60fps upgrade of Yooka-Replaylee on Switch 2, we're giving away an alternate cover copy of the game to two lucky winners!

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I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

A pile of books about York, including The Witches Of North Yorkshire, Haunted York, Clifford's Tower, Footprints In The Mud Of Time, Murders & Mysteries Of The North York Moors, and a map of Viking and Medieval York

*YORK RESEARCH INTENSIFIES*

(And this isn't quite everything I ordered - sometimes a project just takes over 😅)

This is your reminder to play weird little indie games and support the devs

The problem nowadays is that CEOs don't want to work. They just want money for laying people off and blathering about AI, not for producing any positive or concrete improvement to the business. They expect hundreds of millions for thousands of job loses and it's weak sauce, snowflake behaviour.

sometimes I look at dishonored screenshots and go fuuuuck it's so good. fuck. I'll never forgive the gamers for not buying billions of copies of all the dishonored games

Two books, "English Heritage: Viking Age York" by Richard Hall, and "Nick And Cecilia In York Minster" by Helen Harrison. The latter obscures the former's cover illustration, and has a drawing of York Minster on the cover

The back entrance to the Merchant Adventurers' Hall, above which is a plaster panel with a coat of arms and a Pegasus to either side. Beneath is the legend "Diev Novs Donne Bonne Adventvre"

Plaque for Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, saying, "The shortest street in York. Known in 1505 as Whitnourwhatnourgate (and meaning "what a street!"), it was changed later into its present name. The footpath was paved in York stone by York Civic Trust in 1984."

A shot down one of the streets of York, with York Minster looking above and people filling the streets.

Having played a Whitby-themed game in Whitby in January, and a London-based game in London last week, my brain has started asking me, "Why not York?" So after a rummage through the charity shops in town, and starting to look at it through a visitor's eyes, the research begins!

Jack the Ripper was caught, we rubbed shoulders with the greats of Victorian society, landmarks were demolished, and a build-your-own-Resident-Evil-boss was exploded.

Conspiracy boards were required!

Thanks to our hosts for housing us, and our DMs for running a splendid game of horror and intrigue

A conspiracy board littered with the tidbits of information we'd acquired, some linked with coloured string

A second conspiracy board (from a different board game), covered in red string, and overlaid with an old panorama of London.

Spent an great few days testing a three-tabled, shared-world Blades In The Dark game set in a much more ghost-ridden Victorian London. Fun to throw my grumpy chimney sweep into it's gloomy streets, alongside @crepuscularious.bsky.social scientist lady of negotiable affections, among other friends.

Three individuals (Sam left, Gee centre, Tom right) all wearing purple t-shirts with the Moonshine Adventure Company logo on. They stand smiling. In the bottom third there is a purple box that says we will be at UKGE and our stand number.

The background image is of people using a battle map. In the centre a purple text box detailing what things we will have at UKGE.

Find us at stand 4-252 to find out about new events, chat with our Game Masters and rest your weary legs on our comfy bean bags!

(although you might have to beat Gee at rollies to get to sit on the bean bags…)

So the deepest of deep hurtings. But, hey, we survived it...just about, so now we can basically survive anything. Right? Right??

Bad comedy doesn't even have that fallback - it requires razor-sharp writing and delivery, but the only team with any such skill on Chicken Park is the art and props department (which is the whole reason we watched it - it was worked on by Alvaro Passeri, whose oeuvre we've become fascinated by).

Bad horror or drama can be saved by being unintentionally funny, or at least interesting in terms of what they were trying to accomplish with no skill or money.

The main issue is that it isn't funny. At best, it gets a bit of a smile - or more realistically a grimace - in a couple of places, but otherwise it's just dire, and just kind of icky when viewed from a 2026 viewpoint.

Promo image for Chicken Park, featuring a parody of the Jurassic Park logo, with a chicken skeleton peeking out of a cracked egg, and a red-and-black sky with lightning and a chicken in silouhette at the bottom. Tagline: "A comedy 65 million feathers in the making."

It's no secret that @crepuscularious.bsky.social and I love watching terrible movies - often filtered through some sort of riffing framework - but once in a while, one comes along that tests our mettle. Tonight, that was Chicken Park (1994), an Italian parody of Jurassic Park (if you couldn't tell).

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Ginny Di dressed as a green-skinned dryad clothed in leaves. Text on the image reads "Feeling lost? Take a walk in the woods. If you're lucky you will get more lost"

"If you wander in the woods, you may be swept away to the land of the fey, never to return."

don't threaten me with a good time 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anyway, just a lovely cuddle of French whimsy, and afterwards we both said that we saw the spirit of young Amélie in K's niece, so it must be true.

Poster for Amelie, featuring Audrey Tautou as the titular character smiling enigmatically at the camera in high contrast red against a green background

Us in t'cinema

Date night with @crepuscularious.bsky.social to see Amélie, which is a joint fave of ours, but I've not seen it in over a decade. In my mind, it was timeless, but it's very much set in 1997, with TV-VCRs and the death of Lady Di, which I'd forgotten was the inciting incident of the whole movie.

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WREX release spiralling single ‘Paranoia’ and announce new EP SADWORLD Brighton duo WREX just dropped 'Paranoia', the second single from their upcoming EP, SADWORLD. It's the type of track that makes you feel seen for your feelings. With an old school MTV style music video to back up the already impressive psychoacoustic effects, it's the perfect song to rage to.

WREX release spiralling single ‘Paranoia’ and announce new EP SADWORLD

Brighton duo WREX just dropped 'Paranoia', the second single from their upcoming EP, SADWORLD. It's the type of track that makes you feel seen for your feelings. With an old school MTV style music video to back up the already…

Also I appreciate the graphic design of some of the advertising for it, colouring alternate words in the title in different colours so it could be read as "They Kill; Will You?" if you squint at it.

Plus accidental private screenings are always fun! I don't think I've had one for a while. 😅

a lone woman faces off against a satanic cult who wants to sacrifice her - but this one is a lot more comedic and cartoony. At times, it's like a live action anime and it kinda rules. And there's a great cast who are clearly game for having a blood cannon unloaded all over them.

Poster for They Will Kill You, featuring a blood-drenched Zazie Beetz as Asia, holding a machete in front of her face, with the other cast members' faces picked out on the blade in blood. Tagline: "Let them try."

A late evening trip to the cinema to see one of the seemingly few screenings for They Will Kill You in York (I guess all the other screens have been consumed by the apparently awful new Mario movie?), and I really enjoyed it. On a surface level, it's drawing from a similar well to Ready Or Not -

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.