RPGCast - Episode 338: "Ephemeral"

What is two becomes three. What is three becomes four. Then Manny shows up and we talk about the Witcher and he depresses us all about mobile gaming.

I did a Newsnight thing about how politics needs better data

Here’s a 5 minute film I did on Newsnight last week, about how politics needs better data. Specifically, it’s about how politicians misuse statistics, how we can stop them, and how we can generate better evidence on what works, and what fails.   If you’re interested in more on this topic, well… there are some good examples […]

Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Show, interview, video&#8230

I took great pride in the fact that my book Bad Science was first reviewed by Viz and the British Medical Journal. In that vein, here’s a 90 minute interview I did on stage with comedian Richard Herring in the Leicester Square Theatre. I have bad hair, we cover a lot of dorky material – […]

The Escapists, a breakout puzzle game

Being sent up the river is a challenge in more ways than one in The Escapists. A Kickstarter project developed and published by Mouldy Toof and Team17 released for the PC last year and now on consoles, The Escapists is a time management strategy game imitating daily prison life as best that a computer simulation can.

CraveTV: Is Bell’s Netflix competitor worth $4 a month?

Bell Media’s recently launched streaming service, CraveTV, has one significant advantage over competing platforms like Netflix, as well as Rogers and Shaw’s shomi — it gives users affordable access to HBO’s back catalogue of content. Unfortunately its biggest drawback is the fact […]

Netflix says piracy-filled Popcorn Time is a serious competitor

Last year Popcorn Time leveraged the technology behind Torrents and made peer-to-peer streaming mainstream. Users no longer had to hunt down Torrent files on shady, pornography advertisement filled websites, and instead could simply click a single button in order to […]