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[ Dec 24 2014 ]

I demand to know.

“From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge: ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to know.”

–Richard Morgan, from the novel Black Man.





Games
[ Nov 22 2014 ]

Twenty Years of the Sega Saturn

Twenty years ago today Sega’s 32-bit Saturn console was launched in Japan.





Games
[ Jul 18 2014 ]

Review: Shantae: Risky’s Revenge

Shantae feels like the best artists in the world got together with talented designers and had nothing to say. They were artists, the best of the best, but that’s just not enough.





Games
[ Jun 2 2014 ]

PC Engine Magazine Retrospective

The rise and fall of the PC Engine, viewed through a 43GB archive of magazine scans.





Games
[ Mar 9 2014 ]

Problems with MAME (update: SOLVED)

For a while, a bug in MAME made it impossible to get good screenshots. It’s long been fixed, but it’s described here anyway.





Games
[ Feb 25 2014 ]

Updating the NFG Book

A long while ago I was asked to write a book about video game pixel art, but at the last minute told to focus on something that really wasn’t my forte. So I started working on a new book about the things I wanted to write about.





[ Feb 25 2014 ]

Book Review: Influx, by Daniel Suarez

I’m a very fussy reader. I require my stories to be smart, and the characters in them to be relatable. When a story’s premise is daft, I can ignore it for the sake of a rollicking good yarn, but if the people are stupid I can’t continue for long. It’s the same for movies, which […]





Hardware
[ Feb 4 2014 ]

iiNet mailed me a KYP USB key

I received an interesting thing in the mail yesterday, it’s a USB dongle from iiNet, a large Australian ISP.





Games
[ Jan 27 2014 ]

Robotron: Sprites and Fonts!

Ripping the fonts and sprites from Robotron 2084.





[ Jan 20 2014 ]

Comic Coincidences

The story of how I ended up working on a comic that was never released. Also boobs.





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