Katharine Castle
UX writer. Former games journalist. Views are my own. DFTBA.
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- Utterly inhaled Inkle's TR-49 this weekend. What a brilliant little thing. To say much about it would veer into spoiler territory, but this is such a smartly conceived deduction game, and undeniably one of Inkle's best to date. And it's less than £6! A STEAL. store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...
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- Welcome to Jank! www.jank.cool/welcome-to-j...
- Nectar Wrapped is getting serious with its regional stats. Makes my previous accolade of being the #1 buyer of 'big pack' Rice Krispies cereal in Bath's big Sainsbury's look like child's play...
- From one human being slowly cooked by cats and blankets to another, Happy New Year, folks!
- Loads of games I didn't play this year but these are easily the most memorable ones I did: 1. Donkey Kong Bananza 2. Split Fiction 3. The Roottrees are Dead 4. Promise Mascot Agency 5. Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist 6. The Horror at Highrook 7. Strange Jigsaws 8. Öoo 9. Drop Duchy 10. Wednesdays
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- The Daily Express TV desk is out of control.
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- Strong sunrise giving me strength in the face of a 5 carriage (down from 9) train to London this morning 🥲
- Proud to support Pinky for mayor of Steam Replay 2025!
- Having a go-to recommendation is so much harder for books than games, I find. Personal tastes are trickier to gauge, and my reading habits are... probably more niche than most. The one I do tend to fall back on, though, is "Strange Beasts of China" by Yan Ge. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- You like Assassin's Creed, do you? Well, can I interest you in... more Assassins Creed???
- Have belatedly started reading Erin Morgenstern's "The Starless Sea" and I'm surprised by how much video game stuff is in it. That said, early evidence suggests it's all *very* early 2010s gaming discourse, though, which... Hmm. Feels strangely quaint somehow.
- One character has a gaming-themed food blog (Skyrim sweet rolls ✅, Bioshock cream cakes ✅), and another proffers a list of 'gateway games' for newbies that include 100-hour RPGs 💀. There's even a name drop for Sunless Sea, "an upcoming video game".
- Netflix now owning the Nemesis system: every time you down-thumb a show, the more aggressively it appears in your feed, regardless of genre.
- Second year in a row for @amosroddy.bsky.social. The Citizen Sleeper soundtracks are just such a constant fixture on my weekly train rides to London these days, and at the risk of pulling an Abba, thanks for all the great music!
- No, *YOU'RE* obsessed with video game music.
- I've been clearing out some boxes from underneath the bed recently and found all sorts of random/defunct technology I'd semi-forgotten about. Some key highlights: - half a Gtech vacuum that was sent to me by mistake - unopened Magic Leap One glasses - a 3DS NFC reader - this honking great WoW mouse:
- 🎵It's the moooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeear!!🎵
- A John Lewis velvet Bon-Bon cushion? Or a covert nod that the family you're visiting for Christmas is actually in league with Umbrella Corporation?
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