Slight Return

I’ve been away from the internet for what feels like an eternity, and so this site has become sadly neglected. I’d just like to say that I’ve been off persuing more interesting projects, living a life to its fullest, free from the shackles of the World Wide Widget. I’d like to say that, but the [...]

Solid defence

I’ve had the chance to play a little more Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and it’s rocking my world. As I mentioned briefly before, it’s just generally superbly written — an area that videogames often get so wrong, or at least neglect in favour of something entirely less important. In terms of strong characters and a well-rounded, interesting, [...]

The Album Club: like Fight Club, but with fewer teeth dropping out

 
trendthrift received a three month subscription to Rough Trade’s Album Club for Christmas (amongst many other wonderful gifts, incidentally — we must have been on Santa’s good blog list last year), with today being delivery day for the first batch of CDs. Sure enough, the parcel arrived this morning.
Inside the nicely packaged box were new albums from Clap Your Hands [...]

Clean bill of stealth

So, trendthrift is a hulking great DS whore. It’s a superb machine blessed with a number of truly outstanding games. Unfortunately, Lost In Blue isn’t one of them. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lovely game for the most part, with some innovative ideas. It’s a shame, then, that the penultimate section lapses into a [...]