David Kenny

It took a while to click for me, but once it did I tore through it. A really atmospheric game, that stuck with me long after finishing it.

Chelsea got Atletico at this stage last year, and Bayern Munich the year before. The most recent year they qualified before that they got Barcelona, and that was when Barca were good! Whenever Chelsea have made it past this stage, which until last year was some time ago, they've had to work for it.

That would have got me the second seasonal prize which I now can't get without the multiplayer stuff, and I'm physically repulsed by the notion of playing with other human beings.

What do you have to do for the seasonal challenge with the treasure chest icon? When I select it it shows me the map but with nothing on it.

Yeah maybe. I think I might have agreed to it just so it would stop pestering me. I'm old and I get confused OK!

I hate the idea of MS rewards on principle. Performing your little tasks like a good lab rat in exchange for Microsoft treats, all the while Mad "Uncle" Phil watches on laughing maniacally (probably). What I dislike even more is that you perform those tasks without even meaning to. The Xbox applauds you for being a good little rat even when all you wanted to do was play a game. I just wanted to hoon around Mexico in a massively souped up Morris Minor and somehow I'm contributing to whatever nefarious scheme this whole thing is part of.

Tell you what, no graphics engine is going to be able to recreate what a crazy motherfucker Keanu Reeves is. In another life he would have been creating his own religion.

I don't think this is such a bad month. I have no interest in Godfall, but I've been wanting to try Mortal Shell, and my kids might enjoy the lego game. There have been months recently where I haven't even bothered to claim the games on offer, so it's an improvement on that.

Add me to the list of patch victims. I was seeing quite a few bugs before the patch (I had to delete a save altogether because it wouldn't let me change radio stations), but now I've had multiple crashes, multiple instances of the controller not responding, audio glitches, hanging on the saving screen. It's a pretty poor show for such a high profile title.

I've got both and as someone who thought the PS4 was probably the best console I've ever owned, I'm very happy with the PS5 as it continues in pretty much the same vein. I do have a huge backlog of PS4 games so barring a couple of excellent exceptions, it's really just been a nicer way to play those, which is great. I picked up Xbox Series X a few months ago after not having an Xbox last gen and was a little underwhelmed. There wasn't much from the back catalogue I was desperate to play, although I enjoyed Forza Horizon 4 for the 20 or so hours I spent with it. I also think Gamepass is something of a blessing and a curse. Obviously on paper it's excellent value for money, but I do find myself trying a game for a short period then drifting away from it and trying something else, and so I never really end up playing anything. Apart from Forza Horizon 4 I doubt I've put more than an hour into anything. A couple of nights ago I had a whole evening on my own, with uninterrupted access to the TV and ended up scrolling through the whole list of Gamepass titles without finding anything I wanted to commit to. It's my own fault really because I had the exact same experience when I signed up for PS Now. First world problems and all that.

Fez and The Witness are so unique I don't think they'll ever really age. Each one really is a staggering achievement and they play just as well today as they did on release. Hollow Knight isn't as unique, although it is a brilliant example of its genre. I'd think the idea of a best before date applies more readily to the latest game in those identikit franchise titles that appear so regularly, sell so well, and offer so little over their predecessor. The feel pretty irrelevant once the next game comes out.

For the first question, you won't have access to any of the games you claimed on PSPlus until you re-subscribe. For games that you do have a license for, the only way to download them now is logging on to the shop on the vita and finding the game, or scrolling through your download list. For the second question, yes. It will delete the save data too. If you have a PS Plus subscription the saves for PS Vita games are backed up to the cloud.

But they cost more than the console!

I played the original version. It looks like PS2 game, the plot is utterly forgettable nonsense and there's a lot of it, and it's littered with pointless side quests, yet somehow I ended up finishing it after putting in 100+ hours. It was great.

Anecdotal only obviously, but I bought mine from there and had no problems.