Hello and welcome to another truly tremendous edition of the Carnival of Video Game Bloggers, hosted right here at the Carnival’s spiritual home, the Collected Writings of James Newton. Normally I devote more time here, but at the moment I’m going through a period of upheaval as I̵ ...

Our beloved pet hamster, Mitzi, died this morning. We think she suffered a stroke - her mouth was very wet and she found it very difficult to walk straight or, later on, just stand up. We gave her lots of attention and said our goodbyes at around 1am today, and when I went to see her [...] ...

Whoops! I recorded this on Saturday but stupidly forgot to get around to the crucial uploading part, so here’s Episode 9 of the James Newton show, a little later than usual. As today is blog carnival day - over at Akusai’s excellent VGmusings - I’ll be giving the rundown of m ...

Usually I like to celebrate the very best of games here, looking at intelligently crafted and inspiring video games. Sometimes, though, you don’t want to indulge yourself with a magnificent meal; sometimes you just want to eat rubbish, enjoying it all the more in the knowledge it’s rea ...