Sundays are for trying to work out why your feet don't work. I wore too-tight shoes during a house move a few months ago, and now if I walk for too long I get pain under my third and fourth toes. Fortunately, I don't read with my feet. Here are some internet worderings that caught my attention this week.

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I woke up far too early this morning, to stand in a queue for far too long, all to play fan-vexing (and newly release-dated) soulsvania Hollow Knight: Silksong on the Gamescom show floor. No pre-release review codes? Pah – I couldn’t even get a demo appointment at the most demo appointment-centric games event of the year. How’s that> for rejection.

Anyway, Team Cherry might just not be that into me, but I might well be into Silksong. It’s a little quicker, a little more dynamic, and to these fingers, a little more difficult than the first Hollow Knight. But it entirely preserves that tight-as-a-drum feel of the original’s sword swishing, and deploys it against insectoid baddies that challenge and frustrate in practically identical ways.

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Last week, I wrote:

Does this make me omniscient?

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Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but why do product names in gaming sound so aggressive? Why can’t we get the Razer SoftKitty V3 Pro? Ah well.

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If you’re anything like me, you’ll know Ultrawide monitors are amazing. Whether it’s extra real estate for work or extra immersion while gaming, there’s one downside - the monitor mount situation.

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I did not expect to meet Mozart in Shovel Game, nor did I expect him to ask me to mine a pyramid of shit, with the helpful advice that I start at the top to avoid any floating shitbricks. Mozart is probably the least interesting thing about Shovel Game, actually.

It's a shortform first-person oddity with Minecraft-style destructible voxels (yes I know Minecraft doesn't really use voxels) and a touch of AHL_5am. The idea is to tunnel through "a sequence of strange and unfamiliar spaces". Here's a trailer.

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