Hi.

Wel­come to Planet Mut. Estab­lished in 2004, it’s the per­fect out­let for my more sociopathic tend­en­cies. Email me at planetmut@gmail.com.

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The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism

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Game over, man! Game over!

AAARRRGGGHHH, dead again. Ali­ens is one of my favour­ite films (although it’s nowhere near as good as Alien) so when I heard of the new game Ali­ens: Colo­nial Mar­ines I decided to pick it up on sight. Silly me.

From what I’ve read since play­ing it, after spend­ing years in devel­op­ment Gear­box, the stu­dio pro­du­cing A:CM, decided to farm it out to another com­pany to fin­ish. The res­ults aren’t too good, espe­cially if you’re a big fan of Alien movies (except the fourth one, of course. That film never actu­ally happened.)

A:CM pos­its itself as the actual sequel to Ali­ens. Weeks have passed […]

I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

ALTHOUGH I’m a huge fan of both Portal games I hadn’t got around to see­ing Dan Trachtenberg’s short movie Portal: No Escape til about 10 minutes ago. And holy shit, it is superb. Look­ing more like the pre-credit sequence to a big-budget movie than a seven-minute short filmed by a com­mer­cial dir­ector, it gets just about everything right: the dysto­pian set­ting, the sense of bewil­der­ment, the portal gun and the portals. They, in par­tic­u­lar, a real­ised bril­liantly; in the game they’re glow­ing holes, but Trachtenberg’s made them look as if they really are tear­ing through space and time. Dani­elle Rayne’s […]

Back on the game

ALL THREE of you might have noticed that Planet Mut’s not been updated as much as pre­vi­ously. There’s a simple reason for this: I’ve redis­covered video­games. Well, one video­game in par­tic­u­lar.…

One fate­ful day (Box­ing Day, to be pre­cise) I decided to have a “quick” game of Half-Life 2. I loaded Steam and noticed they were hav­ing a sale on games. Ten minutes later I was the proud owner of all three Alien Breed remakes, Bat­man: Arkham Asylum, and a driv­ing game called FlatOut:

I never even used to like racing games. I was always one for […]

But will there be cake?

PORTAL 2? Next year? I can’t wait that long for a sequel to Portal, I can play the bloody thing blind­folded. And I know all the words to Still Alive:

Portal, for those of you unfor­tu­nate enough not to have played/heard/cared about it, is a way of life video­game where you run around Aper­ture Science’s deser­ted research centre with only a portal gun and the voice of Gla­DOS the insane com­puter for com­pany. Each room presents a puzzle: how to move to the next one without fall­ing to your death/being burned/shot by turrets/dissolved in […]

If you have Steam...

…NOW’S your chance to buy the clas­sic 2000 Ali­ens v Pred­ator game for $1.99. I just […]