John Walker's Electronic House

Here’s some good news, especially if you’re MHW and hate the bunnies.

Thanks to some really hard work by Nick, I now have a place for Brian off of this blog.

There’s lots of work to do yet, including activating all the buttons, and making the archive more attractive. But it’s working now, so I may as well make it public.

I’ll post reminders on the blog when it’s updated, but it should be every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, unless I don’t. Please bookmark it, and if you like it, recommend it to friends. The more people reading, the happier I feel. That’s a combination of ego, and the reason for creating things in the first place: so other people will enjoy them.

Which means I shall hopefully be driven to remember to write things here, as it will no longer look all busy with cartoons.

There’s an email button on the Brian site, and I’d really appreciate feedback. Maybe it’s my weakness, but I find the interaction to be really helpful. And post comments on the links here. Love me. LOVE ME. Or something like that.

I was rescued by firemen today, from the raging fire of annoyance of locking myself out my flat, with no way to get back in until Monday night. There was a fire engine, and a long ladder and everything, and it was really exciting.

A really nice app was linked from AB’s forum, and I had a go.

Also, check out this beautiful one by Mark.

Unashamedly lifting the majority of its format from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, BBC4’s The Late Edition is the Corporation’s latest attempt to recapture the elusive topical satire that it thinks it remembers doing so well in the past.

The Daily Show is certainly the finest satirical comedy on television anywhere in the world. It would be nice to suggest it beats all the competition without trying, but the sad reality is that there just isn’t much else out there.

My (hopefully) first contribution to the excellent www.offthetelly.co.uk. It’s an especially good site, with years of archives to read through. And now me as well.

“Do you get to keep the games?”

That’s the question I get asked the most about my odd little job.

“Yes,” I reply, “but only to remind myself of the torment.”

I’ve just reviewed Legacy: Dark Shadows for PC Gamer. I can’t say anything just yet, because the review won’t be out for a bit, and people at PC Zone might try and copy, because they are like that. Especially Will Porter. He’s the sort. I dunno, something big might slip, and this Croatian point and clicker might get the cover. The attitude to writing games magazines is a lot like curling your arm around your exercise book and leaning your face an inch away from the page as you write. “Get off! No copying!”

The game’s already available, and I think there’s little that could advertise it better than having a listen to what could vaguely be described as the theme tune. The reality is it plays when you click on ‘Quit’ (a not unlikely event), over some credits that appear. This loops eternally, unless you click the mouse, which crashes the game providing a handy error message on your desktop.

So make your way to the game’s site, here, and have a listen to this.

I don’t want to be presumptious, but I’m thinking: I Love Horses for 2005.

Here are the two that should have gone up this week.