Gaming’s lack of cool

Imagine an adult gaming icon that didn’t commit genocide. How brilliant would that be?

While listening to the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s critically acclaimed film Drive, it dawned on me that video games don’t have much in the way of cool. And when I say cool I don’t mean it in the Call of Duty dude-bro way, I mean in the effortless Steve McQueen way.

Why I’m back (With added backstory!)

A 12-year-old boy shouldn’t have owned Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but I did. It would end up being, in slightly hyperbolic terms, the game that set my life in motion. Being a regular reader of gaming magazines since I first owned an N64 aged 8, I decided to have a crack at a review – which led to another review, then another and so on until I had a little folder filled with some of the absolute worst reviews ever written.