Video game enthusiasm.
Question: What do video games and the maternal figure in your life have in common? Answer: They’re both smooth at sixty. Question: What do video games and the maternal figure in your life have in common? Answer: They charge a hundred and twenty currency units for all the extras, but if you wait a few years for them to go off the boil, they’ll bung the whole lot in for a fiver. Thank you for…
This month, some bang up to date video games that Margaret and I have been playing, and ones that don’t exist yet but that look interesting. Beyond being available on the electronic mail at cor@fastmail.jp , and on Bluesky , we're now listed on the Warp Point webring . Thank you to the maintainers for listing us. We're in good company; Retronauts, Mothership, and all kinds of cool independent…
If you're not getting VIDEO GAME ENTHUSIASM delivered to your inbox every month, what are you doing? This month in BACKLOG YEAR, it’s back to basics; talking about some GAMES, some that are not old and I’ve gone back on BACKLOG YEAR and bought (save me from this pain) but a number that are. There’s a lot to be said for hardware chat, but eventually you have to sit down with that hardware and play…
Also other games what we have played and that and material on the AYN Thor downgrade. Also the Wii for some reason, oop, (the reason is that it’s the best console ever.) I have a cold that I’m fairly sure I picked up at PAX East, but having gone to PAX East, I've also caught VIDEO GAME FEVER. I’m writing this in the Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Library, where some youths are loudly swearing and…
By the time you read this, I’ll have had the AYN Thor Max for just less than a month. I’m enamored with it, and it might be the last handheld I buy for a long time. More than anything else, I love that it does everything that I need it to as a person with hemiplegia. When I talk about handhelds on here, I do so from a personal perspective; I have the use of one hand, and so my life is one long…
Reviews of Infamous, Disco Elysium, Torn, Batman: Arkham Knight, Fable (new one), plus Dr. Margaret Downs PhD reviews Tiny Bookshop and I review the Playstation 4 variant of the Evil Controller. I’m delighted to inform you that BACKLOG YEAR continues; the oldest game this month is twenty-two years old; still in the realm of covering modern classics for now. I’m pleased that I’m continuing to…
State of the Newsletter address I'm playing at being a games journalist, but I'm currently actively loathing video games. They're still cool, and this is still the enthusiasm newsletter, but fuck me if the state of games, and my own dexterity issues stopping me from enjoying the games I want to play most, don't make me want to sell my earthly possessions and live in a cave. Geoff Keighley…
It's the personal essay issue! Co-op games that ruin everyone's lives but mine and Margaret's! Margaret on Super Mario Galaxy! Me on the 8BitDo Pro 3, and too many Legion Go products! It’s the worst kept secret in gaming since the Steam Machine, but cosy correspondent Dr. Margaret Downs PhD. and I are partners. We also like to play video games together; sometimes not even games designed for…
Rare Replay! Going tonto for Ape Out! Super Mario Odyssey! Struggling with dungeon crawlers as a disabled person! A review written co-operatively with Dr. Margaret Downs, PhD.! More! It’s November 2025, and despite having been alive for a disgusting amount of time, I’m only just realising how to approach the hobby of playing video games; amazingly, I should play games that I enjoy, and, if I’m…
Plus: Why Earth Must Die is set to be the funniest game of next year, how Dead Rising (2006) and Spider-Man (2000) give me disabling anxiety, and how the God Mode feature in the Hades games keeps me playing as a disabled person! More! Hello! I don’t like scary games. So, in planning out various themes for different issues of the newsletter, I hadn’t planned at all on doing anything approaching a…