Pour one out for Ubisoft and the innumerable teams behind Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, who are tasked with the insurmountable: making all fans happy. For there are fans of the long-running IP Assassin’s Creed, (AC) and plenty of them. These fans have played many of the games of the old AC…

I wrote this piece in mid-2020, a few months before Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. That game sheds new light on the direct ancestry of the crusade-era of Assassins, and warrants discussion. Bells ring over ambling alleyways and thoroughfares; smoke rises from rooftops; the golden domes of Jerusalem shine dully in the…

Gibson is my very favourite author. It’s no small disappointment to find he has written his first dud. His plots tend to follow a pattern. They go something like this: 2–3 characters in quotidian, somewhat disadvantaged walks of life are derailed from everyday affairs by a technological disruption in the…

Praise be to NVIDIA’s Geforce Now, which allows us Mac nerds to dabble in full-fat Windows gaming without using a PC. For a while, before streaming gaming was consumer-ready, I was happy to boot into Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro with a custom-wired NVIDA eGPU. I felt like a hacker…