Still I speak to people who haven’t played portal yet. What’s the deal with that?

Forget what you’ve read and the trailers you’ve seen.

Not only is Portal canonical to the Half Life universe, but it also has a story of its own. This is way more than a puzzle game. It has everything you’d expect from a FPS and even more still.

If you haven’t already - Play it!

I love and hate recommending music to people. Music is a very personal thing and most people (including myself) are set in their ways and will only listen to a particular genre, subset of artists or songs from some long gone era back when vinyl was the dog’s bollocks.

Thanks to a certain app on Facebook used to “compare people”, I am well aware that I have terrible taste in music (but then again, it also says that I have the best hair and that I’m the most dateable of all my friends).

So if you don’t mind transgressing into my world for a second, you must listen to the music of Emma Pollock formerly of The Delgados. She has recently released her debut album, Watch the Fireworks. Once again, no reviews from me - I’m not that deep or sophisticated. Just listen and hopefully you might like it.

You can hear a few tracks for free on her website.

Earlier today, watching good ol’ British TV, I was intrigued by a feature on The One Show about brain gender.

Some researchers say that men can have ‘women’s brains’ and that women can think more like men.

Fascinating stuff, I know.

Anyhow - as I am a bit of a girl sometimes - I was overly curious to know my own brain gender. I took their online test and I think I received someone else’s results. The test placed me perfectly in the centre of the male brain classification and they made the following insights based on my answers:

• I fight well because of the way I cross my fingers.
• I can’t empathise.
• I have really manly hands.
• I like girls.

I do like the girls.

Preloading complete; I am excited.

I am only two thirds as excited as I should be though, as it feels like Team Fortress 2 has already been out for a month. However, I’ll be sure to make up for that empty space inside of me by playing Half Life 2:EP2 twice (to hear the commentary track of course).

As a black box owner, I do not share the frustration of having to re-buy the earlier games that you orange boxers are forced into. Better yet, my black box came free with my new ATI card.

So consider this a big, fat, massive gloat to all of you.

I haven’t read the whole book, so I wont be reviewing it for you. TBH, this book doesn’t need a review, the title says it all. In fact, you should be searching for a link right now because you can download it for free!

You can trot out the biggest, fattest, coolest sounding design document in the world, but if you want to be the beneficiary of a five-, six- or seven-figure check, hoo boy brother, you better be able to put a playable demo where your mouth is.

Ok, here you go: Scott Steinberg’s Get Rich Playing Games

All of you who still play steam games should join up to our steam community. I’ve sent out a lot of invites already but many of you haven’t responded yet. So those of you who haven’t logged into steam for a few weeks (Johnny, JK, Wes), get your asses in gear and join up already. If I didn’t send you an invite and you expected one, get in touch.

Do your assignments always fall short of the word limit? Nevermind, watch this tutorial video and your page count will increase by… 10% ish.

Does anyone remember the Tower of Goo? Of course you do. Here’s something new that is very much like that. It’s called the World of Goo.

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This is genuine BBC footage and not at all edited in any way, honest.

I’m done with redesigning this site for now.

It’s taken a nice shapely blog form. Magic? No, it’s PHP. It’s not even my PHP. This is a premade blogging script which I disguised to look like a proper website. This isn’t even a proper post; I mean, I have nothing useful or informative to say. Bye.