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2026 1

  1. 15 Years of Indie Dev In 4 Bits of Advice

2025 1

  1. Project Battleaxe Dev Log 1: The Four Verbs

2024 3

  1. Tactical Breach Wizards Is Out!
  2. Tom’s Tstretch Timer
  3. A Snowy Ramble On What Makes Games ‘Different Every Time’

2023 4

  1. Blundering Into Dead King’s Bluff
  2. Unity’s Trap
  3. Tom’s Timer 5
  4. The Bone Queen And The Frost Bishop: Playtesting Scavenger Chess In Plasticine

2022 3

  1. Five Problems With Chess
  2. Badminton
  3. We’re Looking For Someone To Make A Tactical Breach Wizards Trailer

2021 2

  1. Void Bastards Vs Heat Signature: A Completely Objective Analysis
  2. Seeking A Composer For Tactical Breach Wizards

2019 5

  1. Gridcannon: A Single Player Game With Regular Playing Cards
  2. Making A Better Card Feel Worse With UX
  3. Steam Quirks For Developers
  4. Charity
  5. My Week

2018 5

  1. Dad And The Egg Controller
  2. Heat Signature’s Space Birthday Update Is Live!
  3. The Potato ‘Paradox’
  4. What Works And Why: Emergence
  5. Pitch: Tactical Breach Wizards

2017 10

  1. Heat Signature’s Fair Points Update: Reacting To Good Reviews
  2. Death is Canceled for Space Halloween
  3. Heat Signature’s Launch, And First Player Legend
  4. Heat Signature Is Out!
  5. A Leftfield Solution To An XCOM Disaster
  6. Heat Signature Release Date And Launch Celebrations
  7. What Works And Why: Prey’s Intro
  8. Morphblade And Imbroglio: Making A Game To Test A Critique
  9. Morphblade Is Out!
  10. Great Moments In Television, 2016

2016 12

  1. Heat Signature Factions Trailer, Working At Valve
  2. Heat Signature: What I’ve Been Working On
  3. Games Successfully Developed At Stugan 2016 So Far
  4. What To Do If Your Prototype Isn’t Fun
  5. Rewarding Creative Play Styles In Hitman
  6. Testing, Wishlists, And A New Video
  7. Heat Signature Will Be At Rezzed 2016 Next Week
  8. Postcards From Far Cry Primal
  9. The Witness
  10. Solving XCOM’s Snowball Problem
  11. Kill Zone And Bladestorm
  12. An Idea For More Flexible Indie Game Awards

2015 47

  1. Heat Signature: Infinitely Scaling Vapour Layers
  2. Star Wars VII (Spoiler Safe)
  3. Help Me Structure Some Code Better In Heat Signature
  4. A Tale Of Arabian Nights
  5. Generating Locks And Keys In Heat Signature’s Ships
  6. Thoughts On Fallout 4 And Invisible Inc’s Contingency Plan
  7. Laying Out Heat Signature’s Ships: Snakey Vs Branchy
  8. Teaching Heat Signature’s Ship Generator To Think In Sectors
  9. What Works And Why: Multiple Routes In Deus Ex
  10. The Martian (The Book)
  11. Doing Your Job In Metal Gear Solid V
  12. Natural Numbers In Game Design
  13. I Made A Taskbar Timer To Keep An Eye On Wasted Time
  14. The Killing Decision In Metal Gear Solid V
  15. Being Someone Else In Metal Gear Solid V
  16. Metal Gear Solid V’s Failure Spectrum
  17. A Hollow Victory In MGS V
  18. Naming Drugs Honestly In Big Pharma
  19. Pedestrian-Cyclist Tensions Reach A Flashpoint On The Canal Path
  20. Gunpoint Exclusive Edition Owners Now Have A Two-Week Alpha Of Heat Signature
  21. One Problem With Open Game Development
  22. Vapour Trail Experiments
  23. Spot The Bug
  24. Eurogamer Play Heat Signature
  25. What It’s Like Showing Heat Signature To The Press
  26. Writing vs Programming
  27. Let Me Show You How To Make A Game
  28. Back Up Your Stuff
  29. New Heat Signature Video: Galaxies, Suction And Wrench-Throwing
  30. What Works And Why: Nonlinear Storytelling In Her Story
  31. Tiny Design
  32. Thoughts On Neon Struct
  33. Thoughts On Invisible Inc And GalCiv 3
  34. Why I’m Letting Heat Signature Get Bigger
  35. My Idea For An ‘Unconventional Weapon’ Game
  36. A Day’s Experimentation With Heat Signature’s Nebula Generation
  37. Galactic Zoom In Heat Signature
  38. Thoughts On The First Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Trailer
  39. From Gunpoint To Heat Signature: A Narrative Journey
  40. Thoughts About Praise And Confidence At GDC And Rezzed
  41. Detpacks
  42. The Cost Of Simplifying Conversations In Videogames
  43. First Steps In Skyrim
  44. How To Find An Object’s DrawGUI Co-ordinates In Game Maker Studio With A Rotated View
  45. Christmas Chocolate Workshop 2014
  46. Video Tutorial: Make A Game With No Experience
  47. Thoughts On Dragon Age: Inquisition

2014 51

  1. What Works And Why: Invisible Inc
  2. Thoughts On Far Cry 4
  3. Podcast Tips: Nick Frost On WTF
  4. Heat Signature, One Year Later
  5. New Heat Signature Trailer Shows Art, Music, Wrenches And Guns
  6. Heat Signature Screenshots
  7. Heat Signature Trailers
  8. Our Super Game Jam Episode Is Out
  9. What Works And Why: Sauron’s Army
  10. Help Me Learn Finite State Machines For Guard AI In Heat Signature
  11. Showing Heat Signature At Fantastic Arcade And EGX
  12. Introducing The Heat Signature Team
  13. Gunpoint Is In The New Humble Indie Bundle!
  14. Update On Heat Signature Applications
  15. Heat Signature Playable At EGX And Fantastic Arcade
  16. Gunpoint Mac And Linux Ready For Testing
  17. It’s Time I Did Something About This ‘Gunpoint Ripoff’
  18. What I’m Working On And What I’ve Done
  19. The Formula For An Episode Of Murder, She Wrote
  20. Heat Signature Needs An Artist And A Composer
  21. Improving Heat Signature’s Randomly Generated Ships, Inside And Out
  22. Heat Signature Development Time-Lapse: 5 Months In 2 Minutes
  23. Gunpoint Patch: New Engine, Steam Workshop, And More
  24. Floating Point Passes 70,000 Players
  25. Floating Point Development Breakdown
  26. Distance: A Visual Short Story For The Space Cowboy Game Jam
  27. Raising An Army Of Flying Dogs In The Magic Circle
  28. Floating Point Is Out! And Free! On Steam! Watch A Trailer!
  29. Floating Point Is Coming To Steam – Tomorrow
  30. Filming Super Game Jam
  31. Beta Testing Steam Workshop And Gunpoint’s New Engine
  32. Drawing With Gravity In Floating Point
  33. Designing Floating Point
  34. Heat Signature’s First Four Objective Systems And Why They All Sucked
  35. What’s Your Fault?
  36. The BAFTA Games Awards
  37. The Randomised Tactical Elegance Of Hoplite
  38. Notes On The Arguments About Facebook Acquiring Oculus
  39. Jerk, Jounce And Rates Of Change
  40. Ending A Space War With A Punch In Heat Signature
  41. Pathfinding In Heat Signature’s Randomised, Modularly Destructible Spaceships
  42. How IndieCade Went For Heat Signature And The Grappling Hook Game
  43. Randomly Generating Simple Spaceships In Heat Signature
  44. The Heat Signature FAQ
  45. The Gunpoint FAQ
  46. Here I Am Being Interviewed By Steve Gaynor For Tone Control
  47. Heat Signature: A Game About Sneaking Aboard Randomly Generated Spaceships
  48. Werewolf And The Logic Of Lies
  49. Game Design: The Non-Stick Plan
  50. The Grappling Hook Game, Dev Log 6: The Accomplice
  51. A Story Of Heroism In Alien Swarm

2013 63

  1. 2013 12 31 2013
  2. The Grappling Hook Game, Dev Log 5: Wrapping And Slacking
  3. One Desperate Battle In FTL
  4. Heat Signature, A Stealth Space Game About Temperature
  5. Risk Of Rain: The Huntress Dies A Subtle Death
  6. Assassin’s Creed 4: Treasure Island
  7. Assassin’s Creed 4: Pirates Without Boarders
  8. Risk Of Rain: Acrid And The Mystery Boss
  9. Playing Assassin’s Creed 4: You Can’t Sword Fire, Man
  10. Playing Risk Of Rain: The Engineer And The Shitty Lantern
  11. Risk Of Rain
  12. GHGC Dev Log 4: Rules Of Retraction
  13. To Hell And Back In Spelunky
  14. Assassin’s Creed 4 Parts 1-5: Boarding School
  15. Games Vs Story 2
  16. GHGC Dev Log 3: Grappling With Hooks
  17. I’ve Started Working On A New Game: GHGC
  18. Exploring Eldritch, Parts 1 & 2
  19. Gunpoint Development Breakdown
  20. Clack: A Very Short Story Inspired By An Amazon Review
  21. Niece Vs iPhone
  22. I Made A Physical Version Of Word Game Letterpress
  23. Failing Fast In GTA V, Parts 1-10
  24. Spelunky Strategy Guide: Finding And Defeating Anubis
  25. Gunpoint Half-Price Sale, Edition Upgrades, And Trading Cards
  26. GDC Talk: How Reviewing Games For Nine Years Helped In Designing Gunpoint
  27. Tom And Nika Vs The Necromancers Of Monaco, Parts 1-5
  28. Spelunky Explorers’ Club
  29. Comparing Notes In Spelunky’s Unique Daily Adventures
  30. Gunpoint: What I’m Working On
  31. Learning Unity
  32. Round Up Of Contemporary Television Dramas About Two Women Who Switch Identities
  33. Taking The World With Tourism, A Civilization V Story
  34. Half-Life 2 Speedrun Is Beautiful, Ugly
  35. Five Things I Learned About Game Criticism In Nine Years At PC Gamer
  36. Leaving PC Gamer
  37. Ending, An Interesting Roguelite Puzzle Game With Extraordinary Sound Design
  38. First Time Using An iPhone
  39. Gunpoint Recoups Development Costs In 64 Seconds
  40. Gunpoint Patch 3 Is Live On Steam And Humble Store
  41. Gunpoint Patch 2 Now Live On Steam And Humble Store
  42. Gunpoint Patch 1, And Ongoing Support Plans
  43. Gunpoint Is Out!
  44. The Gunpoint Soundtrack, And Upgrading Editions
  45. Help Me With Some Final Gunpoint Testing!
  46. Gunpoint Demo Released! Pre-Orders Open! Release Date Announced!
  47. Gunpoint’s Release Date’s Release Date
  48. Games I Don’t Plan To Make: Relativity Paramedic
  49. Gunpoint’s Release Date’s Release Date’s Release Date
  50. Games I Plan To Make #1: The Randomised Strategy Game
  51. Gunpoint Steam Achievements
  52. Gunpoint Trailer: Gadgets And Steam
  53. Thief: Deadly Shadows Development Quotes
  54. Gunpoint Video Blog: Story Vs Games
  55. My Short Story For The Second Machine Of Death Collection
  56. Gunpoint Dev Log: From A Broken Mess To A Working Game
  57. Five Hours With BioShock Infinite And Ken Levine
  58. The Calamitous Pacifist In Gunpoint
  59. Not Being An Asshole In An Argument
  60. My SimCity City
  61. Playing Skyrim With Nothing But Illusion
  62. Welcome To Site 7
  63. How Mainstream Games Butchered Themselves, And Why It’s My Fault

2012 54

  1. Ibb And Obb, A Co-Op Game Where The Ground Has Two Sides
  2. What I Learned From Gunpoint, And How To Make A Game
  3. Gunpoint At Minecon
  4. Why Isn’t There A Gunpoint Kickstarter?
  5. Alcohol
  6. A Short Script For An Animated 60s Heist Movie
  7. Dishonored
  8. Gunpoint Level Editor Trailer
  9. Adventure Time Game Post Mortem
  10. What I Like About Guild Wars 2
  11. My Borderlands 2 Review Is Up
  12. Adventure Time Game Jam
  13. Game Idea: Slumber
  14. The Good And The Bad Bits Of The Newsroom
  15. Memories Of Far Cry 2
  16. The Magical Logic Of Dark Messiah’s Boot
  17. Arguing On The Internet
  18. A Successful Spelunky Run
  19. Salt Crust Loaf
  20. Total Biscuit Plays Gunpoint
  21. Shopstorm, A Spelunky Story
  22. Spelunky Tips
  23. Why Are Stealth Games Cool?
  24. The Newsroom
  25. An Update About Monetising Videos Of Gunpoint, And Testing
  26. Res Gestae
  27. E3’s Violence Overload, Versus Gaming’s Usual Violence Overload
  28. The Suspicious Developments manifesto
  29. Suspicious Developments unveils legitimate rebranding exercise
  30. Huh. That Looks Interesting
  31. Cinnamon And Nutmeg Iced Coffee
  32. Hey, You’re Not Chell
  33. The ‘Tiny World’ Game I Didn’t Make At The Weekend
  34. Things I Can Safely Tell You About The Cabin In The Woods Before You See It
  35. Gunpoint’s Release Date
  36. 2012 04 13 resume
  37. A Snoop At Gunpoint’s Labs
  38. PRESS RELEASE
  39. Proteus
  40. Making Gunpoint’s Save System
  41. GDC Talk: How To Explain Your Game To An Asshole
  42. Talk To Me, Be Talked At By Me, And Play Gunpoint At GDC
  43. Maybe I Should Just E-Mail You When Gunpoint Is Out
  44. Gunpoint Business Cards Render Quality Of Actual Game Irrelevant
  45. New Gunpoint Test Build Soon, Sign Up Here
  46. You Can Now Vote For Gunpoint In The IGF
  47. Justified
  48. Eurogamer Gunpoint Preview
  49. Gamasutra Interview
  50. True PC Gaming Interview
  51. Suspicious Developments announces existence
  52. Suspicious Developments headquarters broken into
  53. Gunpoint Now Has Music
  54. Discovered In 2011: Boss

2011 66

  1. Gunpoint Music Submissions Update
  2. The Game I’m Not Making This Weekend: Red Snow
  3. It’s Like 16 Ropes When All You Need Is A Bomb
  4. More On Making Music For Gunpoint
  5. Gunpoint Trailer: Let Me Talk You Through Some Ridiculous Solutions
  6. Beheading Gmail’s New Look
  7. Gunpoint Is Delayed, Level Design Is Hard, Choice Is Weird
  8. The Saddest Goddamn Thing
  9. Listening To Your Sound Effects For Gunpoint
  10. The Perils Of Being A Melee Companion To A Ranged Character
  11. My Skyrim Review
  12. Machine Of Death: Volume 2
  13. Pane Rustico With Fresh Rosemary And Cheddar Crust
  14. Maybe You Should Make The Crosslink Noise For Gunpoint
  15. Gunpoint: Coding
  16. The Giant Issue Of PC Gamer
  17. Gunpoint In The Press
  18. Gunpoint Screenshots
  19. How It’s Fucking Going
  20. My Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review
  21. Gunpoint Art Progress
  22. Gunpoint Art Style Mockup
  23. The Escape Game I’m Not Going To Make This Weekend
  24. My Review Of The PC Version Of From Dust
  25. Replaying Oblivion, Kinda Glad They’re Redoing The Faces For Skyrim
  26. A Cheating Supreme Commander AI’s Base
  27. Let Us Mumble You Through Our Supreme Commander Game
  28. Some Incredible Brink Images On Dead End Thrills
  29. M83 – Midnight City
  30. You Can Sell Your Diablo 3 Loot For Actual Money
  31. You Can Now Knock Guards Through Windows
  32. Maybe Back Up Your Google Stuff?
  33. Google+ Is The Exact Opposite Of The Social Network We Need
  34. The Greatest Team Fortress 2 Update
  35. Gunpoint Delayed To… I Don’t Know, Christmas?
  36. Adventure Time
  37. The Shadow Line Lines In The Shadow Line
  38. My Duke Nukem Forever Video Review
  39. Understanding Your Brain
  40. What Makes Games Good
  41. Supreme Commander All Czars
  42. Game Of Thrones, The Shadow Line, The Killing, Running Wilde
  43. Post 500
  44. Aaron Sorkin’s Next Show
  45. Deus Ex 3 Is Amazing
  46. I Like That You Can Slow Down
  47. Good Story In Games
  48. Gunpoint Now Has Artists, Will Be Art
  49. Gunpoint’s Possible Art Styles
  50. Gunpoint: The Setting
  51. Let Me Mumble You Through An Early Version Of Gunpoint
  52. Our Limbs Have Been Asleep
  53. On PC Gamer Lately
  54. Analysing Happiness
  55. PC Gamer Podcast 51: Mine, Part Mine
  56. Briefly: The King’s Speech
  57. The Podcast Of My Machine Of Death Story Is Out
  58. Mixtape: Ten Tracks Mostly From 2010
  59. How Fast Should Stuff Unlock?
  60. How I Am Working
  61. Better Spelling In Magicka
  62. 2011 01 20 advice
  63. How I Feel About Team Fortress 2 In Graph Form
  64. Gunpoint: The Mechanic
  65. Gunpoint: Tripping Up
  66. Easy A

2010 78

  1. 2010: The Year In Forty Photos
  2. Welcome To Site Six
  3. Construction Ahead
  4. Old Year Resolutions
  5. Christmas 2010
  6. STARVATION Review
  7. A Two Hour Patch For My Two Day Game
  8. Ludum Dare Day 2, 1:55AM: Done
  9. Ludum Dare Day 2, 1PM: Feature Complete
  10. Ludum Dare Day 1, 11PM: Almost Fun
  11. Ludum Dare Day 1, 1PM: A Working Game
  12. Ludum Dare Day 1, 8AM: World And Movement
  13. Ludum Dare Day 1, 6AM: Theme And Ideas
  14. Ludum Dare 19
  15. ALMOND Review
  16. Why Terriers Was Axed
  17. TORN APART AND DEVOURED BY LIONS Review
  18. DESPAIR Review
  19. FUDGE Review
  20. FLAMING MARSHMALLOW Review
  21. This Is My Winter Morning Ritual
  22. A Minecraft Diary And My Black Ops Review
  23. Phineas And Ferb
  24. Halloween 2010
  25. Machine Of Death Is A #1 Bestseller: WTF
  26. Machine Of Death Is Out: Here’s How To Get It
  27. Gunpoint And The Other Game
  28. Machine Of Death Needs Your Help Next Tuesday
  29. Why Graham, Rich And Jaz Should Get Forged Alliance
  30. Death Note
  31. Terriers Again
  32. The Social Network
  33. StarCraft 2: Single-Player
  34. Pilot: Boardwalk Empire
  35. Valve Steal Sixth James Weapon Idea, Sell It
  36. Pilot: Terriers
  37. Dexter Series Five
  38. Brevity Week
  39. Gunpoint: AI
  40. My ‘Enemies As Weapons’ Game Idea
  41. Postcards From A Weekend Of Premeditated Murder
  42. The Maths Of This Week’s Futurama
  43. This Is All I Can Think During StarCraft 2’s Cut Scenes
  44. Seat Quest 2010: The Return: Origins
  45. Seat Quest 2010: The Flight
  46. Seat Quest 2010: The Lounge
  47. A Story Of Plane Seats And Class
  48. Hyperthreaded Depleted Uranium Turbothanks
  49. Machine Of Death Is Out In Two Months
  50. Deckard: Blade Runner, Moron
  51. Inception
  52. Gunpoint: Making The Jump
  53. Valve Steal Most Of Tom’s Evening
  54. Valve Steal Fifth James Weapon Idea
  55. Day Off
  56. Valve Steal Third And Fourth James Weapon Ideas
  57. PC Gamer Has Been Allowed Onto The Internet
  58. Finally, On Lost
  59. Art Failure
  60. Collision
  61. Private Dick
  62. The Cove
  63. On Second Thoughts, I Give Up
  64. The First-Person Observer
  65. Fresh Fox
  66. On Screwing Around
  67. Making Nuclear War More Interesting In SupCom 2
  68. The PC Gamer Blog
  69. Avoiding Suspicion At The US Embassy
  70. What’s Wrong With BioShock 2 And Why I Like It Anyway
  71. PC Gamer: Spelunky And The Robot Apocalypse
  72. The Best And The Worst Of Mass Effect 2 (Spoiler Safe)
  73. An Idea For A Better Open World Game
  74. Open World Games: What Works And Why
  75. Some TV That Was Mostly Shown Last Year In Some Places
  76. Month In Links: December
  77. My Favourite Films Of 09
  78. Captain Forever

2009 67

  1. My Favourite Games Of 09
  2. What’s Wrong With Team Fortress 2’s Unlocks
  3. Team Fortress 2 Updates In Perspective
  4. This Week
  5. War Were Declared
  6. The Year In Forty Photos
  7. I Played Through Left 4 Dead 2 Holding A Goddamn Gnome
  8. The Decline Of Mr Sad
  9. Dragon Age Unclear On The Use Of Swords
  10. Reasons To Look Forward To Just Cause 2, No. 13
  11. Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About Borderlands
  12. The Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Is Here, And Subpar
  13. What’s Wrong With Just Cause?
  14. Red Faction Guerilla Tales: Fully Destructible Integrity
  15. New York
  16. 2009 10 18 status
  17. PC Gamer, November 09
  18. Section 8, District 9, Station 10
  19. A Different Way To Level Up
  20. A Varied Gaming Diet
  21. Team Fortress 2: Classless Update Night
  22. Postcards From Point Lookout
  23. Abandoning The Main Quest In Oblivion
  24. 2009 07 17 moon
  25. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Seven
  26. Prototype Revised
  27. I’ve Got Confessions To Make
  28. Fallout Girl: Little Lamplight
  29. Homelessness In The Sims 3
  30. Burglary Aftermath
  31. Old! Defibrillate This
  32. All Books Found To Be Reasonably Or Very Good
  33. Woo-EEE-Ooh-AAA!
  34. The Team Fortress 2 Experience
  35. Needle Exchange
  36. The Prime Minister Of Sinister
  37. Red Pyro Lost Dracula Again, Smells Depressed
  38. Scenes From Last Night’s Apocalypse
  39. Gentlemen
  40. Plants Vs Zombies: Lawns I Have Loved
  41. A Different Idea For Ending BioShock
  42. PC Gamer Podcast: PCs Vs Ponsoles
  43. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Six
  44. Conversations With Strangers
  45. How To Stop Writing A Fucking Book
  46. Chris Livingston’s Merchants Of Brooklyn Movie Script
  47. Lord I Just Don’t Care
  48. The Nameless Mod Is Out, Apparently Great
  49. I Was Here
  50. Witch’s On First
  51. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Five
  52. Fallout Girl: Striking Out
  53. Interesting…
  54. Can A Death Knight Walk On Lava?
  55. I Am Here
  56. GTA IV Shorts
  57. Keeping The Peace In Mirror’s Edge
  58. Trash Television
  59. Morn Of Brawl
  60. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Four
  61. The Combat In Mirror’s Edge And Why It Fucking Sucks
  62. Art And Motion In Mirror’s Edge
  63. The World Of Goo Soundtrack Is Out, Free, And Amazing
  64. Mirror’s Edge In Pictures
  65. PC Gamer Podcast 24: Admiral Failure & General Vague
  66. Mass Effect In Wheels
  67. 2008 In Games That Were Better Than Other Games

2008 130

  1. GTA IV Shorts: Cut Off
  2. PC Gamer Podcast: The Future’s Dim
  3. Thoughts On The Team Fortress 2 Christmas Changes
  4. Dear Sir
  5. Extra Mirror’s Edge Levels Blocky, Unrealistic
  6. Dead Space: The Right-Hand Side Of A Good Game
  7. So My Vesper Became Your Chariot
  8. Fallout Girl: The Road To Tenpenny Towers
  9. Revenge Of The Psycho Graverobber
  10. I’m Not Making The Plan Next Time
  11. HERO CLOSET
  12. Fallout Girl: Anywhere But Megaton
  13. Fallout Girl, A Diary
  14. Left 4 De-
  15. Right To Live
  16. Far Cry 2: What I Do Like
  17. Far Cry 2: What I’d Like
  18. Far Cry 2: Impersonation Of A Buddy
  19. New PC Gamer Podcast: Eau De Toilette Radioactifs
  20. Far Cry 2 Released, Forest Fires Up 8000%
  21. 2008 10 18 391
  22. Deadly Toads Of Death
  23. World Of Goo Is Coming To Steam, Gentlepersons
  24. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Three
  25. Plan B Is Complete
  26. Multiwinia Mathematics
  27. My Script For A Team Fortress 2 Short About The Spy
  28. Clear Screen
  29. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Two
  30. Retro Team Fortress 2
  31. Sounds Like The Spy Update Is Next
  32. Status Report
  33. Field Studies 6: The PC Gamer Sporecast
  34. I No Longer Feel I Have To Be James Dean
  35. Plan B Chapter One Is Complete
  36. Field Studies 5: My Spore Review
  37. I Read A Thirty-Eight Page Comic About Google’s Browser
  38. Heroes Of Medicine
  39. Red Versus White
  40. Soviet Power
  41. Plan B Is Live
  42. Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume One
  43. He Looks Truly Mortified
  44. Lumber Yard Wallpapers
  45. Heavy Update Thoughts So Far
  46. Relic Announce That Tom Francis Is Right
  47. Team Fortress 2 Goes To The Rockies
  48. Steel Yourself
  49. Vote Tom Francis In The Games Media Awards
  50. Heavy Update: Sandwiches And Fresh Green Grass
  51. Chris Livingston Stops Considering A TF2 Comic
  52. Seriously, Buy Braid
  53. Braid Is Out On Filthy Consoles
  54. Film Catch-Up
  55. Tweak Fortress
  56. Field Studies 4: Vu To A Thorough Game Demonstration
  57. The Middleman
  58. What’s Happening In Kansas
  59. Mirror’s Edge
  60. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
  61. Weltpolizei
  62. The Prop Cigarettes You Smoke, They Show Who You Are
  63. Cutting Verses Down To Size
  64. The Sun Is Shining But We Stay Inside
  65. Mrs D Mrs I Mrs F-F-I, Mrs C Mrs U-L-T
  66. I Propose A Less Serious Vote
  67. Valve Completely Out Of Weapon Ideas, Beg For Help
  68. I Know The Commander Because He’s My Pal
  69. Blizzard Announce That Tom Francis Is Right
  70. Regarding Matt’s Location
  71. Oh My God What The Fuck Barbecue
  72. Cube In Memoriam
  73. Pyro Flare Pistol Thingy Shown In Meet The Sniper
  74. Field Studies 3: My Pretties
  75. Field Studies 1: Sporegasm
  76. Muxed Feelings
  77. You Don’t Have To Be An Engy To Work Here But You Do
  78. Someone Already Made An Ubersaw
  79. Team Fortress 2 Unlockable Weapon Ideas
  80. A Riposte To Valve’s Defense Of PC Gaming
  81. Sire, My Regard For You Is This Big
  82. Crysis Suit Modes Revisited
  83. Don’t Make Me Play Football Manager
  84. What A Shame
  85. The City That Rarely Enters Sleep Mode
  86. No-One Drove In New York, There Was Too Much Traffic
  87. In One Thousand Two Hundred And Ten New York Minutes
  88. That Band You Like Has A New Thing Coming Out
  89. A Slice Of Fried Gold Rush
  90. Achievement Unlocked: Typed Achievement_Unlock
  91. Bracing Oneself
  92. It’s A Democratic Gaming Landscape, Bitches
  93. Non-Problems Of The Obscenely Over-Privileged
  94. Wanking ‘Not Inappropriate’ To Government Commerce
  95. Dispensing Justice
  96. Getting Owned
  97. This Just In: Frogs Aren’t Morons
  98. Der Uberdoktor
  99. Jon Stewart On Presidential Elitism
  100. I Actually Can’t Stop The Music
  101. Offlyin’
  102. The Life And Inevitable Death Of Bloopi
  103. PC Gamer Blog: Five Years Of Foolishness
  104. Anne Diamond Reviews Games
  105. Fail Dogs
  106. Review: Soulstorm (Fire Indeed Hot)
  107. There Will Be Country For Old Men In Real Life, Baby
  108. The Far Cry 2 Team
  109. Valve Decided Against The Overhealer
  110. Austin Translation
  111. Preview: World of Goo
  112. ‘Meet The Scout’ Imminent
  113. PC Gamer Blog: Greatest Videogame Weapon of All Time
  114. Bill Hicks: Another Dead Hero
  115. Vortessence Hangover
  116. I Eat What I Slaughter
  117. Audiosurfing The Shipping News
  118. Team Fortress 2 Badlands Exploit Patched
  119. Lost, Season Four, Spoilers, Obviously
  120. Badlands
  121. James 2.5 Explained
  122. PC Gamer Podcast: March
  123. Chris Livingston Considering A TF2 Comic
  124. Come In
  125. EVE’s Assassins And The Kill That Shocked A Galaxy
  126. My Galactic Civilizations 2 War Diary
  127. Powered Down For Redesign
  128. New TF2 Maps And Medic Change In Two Months
  129. Team Fortress 2 Update Reactions
  130. Things Round Here Have Changed

2007 71

  1. My Goatee
  2. Things I Forgot To Talk About Round-Up
  3. GalCiv2: Still Genius
  4. Analysing Team Fortress 2
  5. Deus Fucking Ex Fucking 3
  6. Crysis Week: The Endingening
  7. Episode Two Death Maps
  8. 2007 11 10 masq
  9. SO… MUCH… CAKE…
  10. On Rock
  11. Review: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  12. I’m Not Allowed To Do This
  13. I Played Through The Crysis Demo Holding A Surprised Korean Guy
  14. The Greatest Spy In Team Fortress 2
  15. Hellgate London Thoughts
  16. Beautiful Piano Rendition Of The Portal Song
  17. I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome
  18. Pushing Daisies Continues To Be Incredible
  19. Ten Minutes To Go
  20. The Best Three Things On TV
  21. Life Complete
  22. This Just In: The Scout Is A Dick
  23. Not Being A Spy
  24. SO… MUCH… BLOOD…
  25. Weirdly, You’ve Been Tanned – Suspicious For The Winter
  26. Structurally Superfluous
  27. Top of GameTab: Wikipedia Edits From Sony IP
  28. Heroes Season Two
  29. My Favourite Disaster
  30. Quick BioShock Warning
  31. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
  32. British Airwaves
  33. BioShock Review Review
  34. Gollum Beat Box Like You Never Seen
  35. The Machine Of Death Winners
  36. System Failure
  37. The Order of the Phoenix
  38. The Completist: Tribes: Vengeance
  39. Quickly
  40. Cloak And Tagger
  41. Gamespot Finally Do The Logical Thing
  42. The Completist: Far Cry
  43. This Month In Terrible, Part 2: London Olympics Logo
  44. This Month In Terrible, Part 1: Anti-DRM T-Shirts
  45. The Finale Post
  46. Not The Finale Post
  47. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
  48. Starcraft 2
  49. Grrraaahahahahaa!
  50. Mystery Trip
  51. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  52. New-Album Deathmatch
  53. 2007 04 17 back
  54. 2007 04 01 iv
  55. Desktop Tower Defense
  56. 2007 03 20 whoa
  57. Noble Jedis
  58. I Don’t Know About You Folks
  59. Infinitely More Exciting Than Anything
  60. My Short Story For The Machine Of Death Collection
  61. A Couple Of Things!
  62. This Is Taking Ages
  63. Best Interview Ever
  64. Let Them Eat Facts
  65. He’s Gone Too Far
  66. Highlight Of 2006
  67. Highlight Of 2006: Previewing Oblivion
  68. Yeah, Me Too
  69. 2007 01 16 24
  70. 2007 01 10 ipwn
  71. 2007 01 01 2006

2006 47

  1. First Screenshots Of Introversion’s Next Game
  2. Dexter: Series One
  3. 2006 12 09 woo
  4. Dexter Again
  5. 2006 12 04 primer
  6. Just ‘Cause
  7. Spoiler Test
  8. Not Everything You Find On Flickr Makes A Lot Of Sense Right Away
  9. Posts About Games Writing Suck So I’m Writing A Post About Posts About Games Writing
  10. Supreme Commander
  11. A Weak Russian Sunset
  12. Event-Inspired Idea: Cellphone Breathalizer
  13. I Am About To Play One Of These Games
  14. 2006 10 05 dexter
  15. Bad News
  16. 24: Drink When…
  17. Blood Money And Sex
  18. Veronica Mars
  19. Too Zune
  20. Something I Didn’t Understand But Still Feels Right
  21. James 1.0
  22. Don’t Blog While Stupid
  23. Should I Hit The Weak Spot For Massive Damage Now?
  24. 25th Hour
  25. Porn Shoes
  26. A Woman’s Life In Search Queries
  27. Paris Laptop Consciousness Drip
  28. This Next Test Is Impossible
  29. Found And Lost
  30. Team Fortress 2, Episode Two And Portal
  31. Not Lasting
  32. Pandora’s Checkbox
  33. Episode Three Conjecture
  34. Episode Two Conjecture
  35. Trivia: My Firefox Extensions
  36. Half-Life 3: Episode 1
  37. Can I Just Say
  38. Top 100 Musings #1: Battlefield 2
  39. Maths Cop 2: The Revengening
  40. 2006 04 27 wii
  41. Out Of Office Auto-Blog
  42. Oblivion Review
  43. If Things Go Right
  44. New Ritual
  45. Favourites
  46. World Of Lifecraft
  47. Elsewhere

2005 50

  1. Some News, JC
  2. This Is The Winter Of Our Disco Tent
  3. Villainy Like It Oughta Be
  4. 2005 11 29 fear
  5. Battlefield 2 Stats
  6. Brain Storm’s New Clothes
  7. Fahrenheit
  8. 2005 11 11 sorry
  9. Quote From What I’m Watching
  10. NaNoWriMo – Hard FAQs
  11. 2005 10 27 mockba
  12. First Night, Second Life
  13. Disappointing Results
  14. Maths Cop!
  15. NaNoWriMo
  16. Google Oozes Connectivity
  17. Lost Season 2
  18. Serenity
  19. 2005 09 14 flying
  20. Introducing: Brain Storm
  21. Concerned
  22. This Month In Awesome
  23. 2005 08 31 rain
  24. SWAT 4: The Movie Script
  25. On Bringing It
  26. State Of Things
  27. Quest Ideas
  28. Quest Que C’est?
  29. WordPress Wizard
  30. Reasons To Freeze To Death
  31. 2005 08 14 phew
  32. Futurama
  33. The West Wing
  34. Firefly
  35. 2005 08 14 04lost
  36. A Big List Of Music I Like
  37. Mulholland Drive
  38. Adaptation
  39. Grosse Pointe Blank
  40. Memento
  41. LA Confidential
  42. Diablo 2
  43. Battlefield 2
  44. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
  45. Deus Ex 2
  46. 2005 08 13 012n
  47. Morrowind
  48. Half-Life 2
  49. Deus Ex
  50. My Philosophy, Circa 2005