the background noise

Mr Charlie Brooker's face was doing its thing all over my television screen last night in a two hour gaming retrospective on Channel 4. A countdown of the 25 most influential games in the history of the medium.  As these sort of lists go some of the greats were always going to be left out but what we got was refreshingly legit.

Absent-mindedly browsing the iPlayer on my PS4 I catch sight of what just might be the greatest movie ever made to go by its synopsis. When you describe your main character as a 'troubled cyborg cop' you've pretty much won the battle for my attention.

We interrupt my adventures in AssCreed to talk about something else entirely. My tolerance for quasi-dream state hijinx is diminished after recent play sessions and besides something caught my eye during an earlier foray around the Twitters earlier this evening. Much to my joy and his endless, endless well of misery, the human shaped sardonic mass that is Charlie Brooker is bringing games and television together once more in a documentary of sorts.