Hi, anyone who still watches me on here - it's been a while! I've been off doing other things but I'd really like to reinvigorate my music in the new year.

At the request of a couple of people I've opened up a couple of Patreons for the stuff I do online - I won't stop putting out my material publically, but if you'd like to sign up for these then I'd love the show of support and would like to give back to you with a couple of bonuses :)

https://www.patreon.com/davidxnewton - Stumbling Tours. This is a series of retro game-focused documentary videos that I do on my Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/davidxnewton , and that have been getting some nice attention recently :)

https://www.patreon.com/albionpowermetal - This one's for Albion! Rewards include early access to songs, free physical albums, and so on.

I'd like to start putting more into Albion, turning it into something that includes more musicians from the community as guests after the success of working with Celine Kalante and Pepper Coyote. At the moment I've got a large multi-singer project that I'm pretty excited about, as well as a remake of The Day the Night Slept, and two new albums - one that's a collection of updated older songs called Timeflight, and then one that's all new material called Second Life.

I hope you keep watching :)

It's been a while since I hit the button, but I forgot that FA journals existed :)



After a couple of years writing and recording, my Undertale-inspired album Buried Souls is now available on Bandcamp! It feels great to finally get this album into the hands of listeners. After getting a lot of the songs started quickly, I readjusted my life quite severely after the birth of my daughter Penny at the end of 2016. Fortunately, she's been very agreeable and has let me continue with my music when she doesn't need my attention, even seeming to quite enjoy it when I play it in the car instead of the fiftieth round of nursery rhymes on repeat.

Watch  mylafox for some artwork from the album coming soon - the physical release will include a booklet with 10 illustrations from her inspired by the songs! And I want to acknowledge a couple of other people as well - Celine returns again here on Kill or Be Killed as the voice of Flowey, and I'm very pleased to have  peppercoyote contributing a great performance as Asriel at the beginning of Asriel Must Be Saved!

BURIED SOULS

It's been a long time since I wrote a journal here! But I wanted to mention that today, Bandcamp are donating their revenue to the Transgender Law Center. If you choose to get The Poison Skies or the upcoming Buried Souls, I'll pass my share on as well :)

https://albion.bandcamp.com/

Looks like I'm certified metal now, as someone submitted Albion to metal-archives.com and some of the dark-robed board of elitists deemed it good enough to go through!

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands.....ion/3540414519

They've put the theme down as "Concept albums based on literature", which is true but you'd think they could have made me sound slightly less of a wanker.

I've got to put  kjorteo on there as well, she was instrumental to The Poison Skies sounding the way it does! Submissions of the songs will continue soon...

I'm very excited to announce that the physical copies of The Poison Skies arrived today - take a look at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20640283/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZcpGdVShk for a look! The album package features artwork by  corvusfae.



And you can get a copy for yourself - or listen for free online - at http://albion.bandcamp.com

Happy new year! With this year, my account on FA is now ten years old.

It's been absolutely ages since I was regularly on the site - looking back through my gallery, the last time I posted music was over a year ago and it's been commissions of a questionable nature since then. But I'm still watching and trying to keep up with people, and I really appreciate everyone's comments!

And I'm going to break the silence soon - a new album is on its way! I've been spending the time with a lot of other projects, but I've also finally moved up from Modplug and relearned a lot about my music process. It's a 90-minute collection of songs that I'm doing in a partnership that I hope we can reveal before too long, because I absolutely love how it's coming out :)

The journal title might also explain why I haven't been around a whole lot lately.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/340250/

I first released Crystal Towers 2 in 2011, and after being picked up by a couple of bundles over the last couple of years, it clawed its way to the top of the Greenlight queue. So rather than releasing the same game again, this is a new "XL" edition, which features a vastly improved screen size and a lot of rebalancing to make the gameplay experience more pleasant.



Take a look if you enjoy anything that's halfway between Sonic and a Metroidvania, and have an unnatural appreciation for programmer art!

Thanks to  kjorteo,  susi and  budgiebin for capturing this, the video is mixed from their recordings.



I'm really pleased at the response this got! I've never seen the reaction to one of my songs publically before... people were clapping along even before the clapping bit, which has got to be a good sign.

As before, this song is dedicated to everyone who made Furfright what it was, and everyone who is making Furpocalypse what it's going to be :)

As of... yesterday, now, I'm thirty years old! And you know it's been a good party when you have to spend half an hour afterwards blowing cake out of your nostrils.

To think I was at the beginning of my twenties when I started an account to post my music on FA :) I've come so far since then...

I'm driving down tomorrow for Furpocalypse - hope to see as many of you there as possible! I'm hoping that it's a worthy replacement for Furfright, the convention that got me started in all of this :)

If you see a large tan rabbit with a guitar, it's me. I'll also be performing (or to be precise, mostly miming - give me a chance) a new song on stage at the Masquerade!

It's the 25th anniversary of the release of Prince of Persia! Since I was about seven years old I've been a massive fan of it - it's an excellent, well-made game (by one author, Jordan Mechner!) which invented the "cinematic platformer" sub-genre, and was notable for featuring a character who actually looked and moved like a human being. Looking at games now, this seems such a mundane thing - it's so difficult to express just how outstanding this was at the time.

As it was released as the 8-bit era was ending and the 16-bit one was beginning, it was feverishly ported to just about every console in existence by very disparate teams, and this video examines the success or otherwise of each interpretation of the game. I put together a video comparing these versions and how they handled or mishandled it... the journey was an interesting one :)

Here's one of the exploratory 'Stumbling Through' videos I do - this game's called Freedom Planet and I was really charmed by it! It feels like a Playstation-era 2D platformer with Genesis-era characters. It's sort of like what I'd have liked the Sonic series to turn into instead of the unkempt polygonal heap that we got.

After being scared to death by the first three episodes, I'm going to try the much harder Episode 4 now. http://www.twitch.tv/davidxn soon!

I admit it, I do something terrible at airports - I profile people. Just to ease my anxiety of flying, I walk around the gate area, reassuring myself there's nobody dangerous on the flight - a family with children, middle-aged African American man, young couple from South Asia, they're all okay... 30-year-old American looking furious and constantly mumbling under his breath! Oh, he's just playing an Altus game on his DS, that's all right. Then I realize that I'm probably the most dangerous-looking thing at the departure gate and sit down again.

Still. We went to Furnal Equinox! Susi and I drove up from his place in Ohio, and I started and then aborted an attempt at video documenting the journey, but the scraps I have may make their way up at some point. It involved going across the Canadian border to Toronto to spend the weekend at another hotel that hosts another universe within its walls.

This convention was about two thirds the size of Furfright but was at a smaller hotel, so it felt around the same size - it was quieter than Furfright due to not knowing quite as many people there. Nevertheless, I was able to meet many great people and artists that I hadn't known about before, along with some that I'd seen previously - Ookami Kemono in particular is a great person and was really enthusiastic about catching up, even though I'd talked to and commissioned him only once before.

I didn't enter the Masquerade this time - I hadn't really prepared anything, but when I heard there was one going on I hurriedly put some notes together and went down anyway, only to remember the reason I hadn't entered was that it was meant to be for suiters. So I went elsewhere and had a lot of fun at some of the improvisation panels instead - some of the highlights involving someone with half a beard imitating a beard-thief, Pac-Man and the Space Core from Portal 2 going on a date, and off-duty Space Invaders commiserating with each other. I then entered a Smash Brothers tournament in which I was beaten in about three minutes. Other events I didn't attend included a pool party with some bizarre and incredible twenty-foot-long custom inflatables, after which the pool was closed for cleaning.

I got to suit as Angel again and found it just as incredible as the first time Susi allowed me to step into his fur - it's incredible how people look at you in fascination and enjoy you interacting with them (especially as there were still a good number of 'normal' people staying at this hotel this time). But I also realized that so much of that appreciation was for Angel and his uniqueness rather than for me - he's an incredible creation of Susi's and he deserves all the credit for him. If I had any doubt in my mind that I wanted to be a fursuiter, though, this would have absolutely extinguished it - with my slot at More Fur Less coming up, next time a convention comes around it's going to be the real DavidN!

On the last day of the convention, Tamakun remembered that he lived there and came over to the hotel, so I got to meet yet another person I'd first encountered through the Internet and got to talk face to face and catch up about life, careers and future plans. It was on this day that I fully realized, difficult as it is to let go of youth, that I'm part of a group of more mature furries now - I kept thinking that there were a lot of very young girls at this convention but then realized that I'd just got older. And while the group at the table next to us were tapping away on their DSes before the closing ceremonies, we were talking about the geopolitical implications of an independent Scotland, then Whitney phoned me and got us both excited about the prospect of buying a new dining room table.

Eventually we had to leave, and we left Canada through the lane of an absolutely baffled border crossing guard, who asked us a lot of questions about who we were and what we were taking into the country (referring to me as "Ken" throughout), searched bewilderedly through the array of props that Susi had in the back of his car, and then asked how we met, which Susi euphemized through absolutely beautifully.

I think my favourite moment of the whole convention came from Sandy Schreiber, one of the guests of honour, whose panel we attended on the first day. In an extended answer that I think came off my question about how she and Sabretooth Ermine discovered the furry community, she recounted how when she was playing house as a child she always wanted to be the dog, or the cat, or the parrot, and how everyone else said that no, she had to be the mother or the daughter... and she said (and I'm paraphrasing) "I'm already that - why would I want to pretend to be something that I already am?" That attitude sums up a lot of why I'm part of this community - the imaginations of all of those involved!

I completely forgot to mention it because my life's been a thunderstorm of hectic activity since January... but I hope to see a few people there :)

http://albion.bandcamp.com/album/th.....he-night-slept

I've just released a free album on Bandcamp - you can click "Buy Now" and enter 0 to download it. "The Day the Night Slept" is a collection of the Hatoful-inspired songs that I recently released here, along with karaoke and - a first for me - vocal versions of all four of them!

With the download, you get the DRM-free music files, a PDF of the album booklet and the source .IT files for the songs if you want to poke around in them.

Music and lyrics written by accident by David Newton, album artwork used with permission of Moa. King-voice on “Long Live the King” by Kjorteo Kalante.

Have fun - stay Hatoful :)

http://albion.bandcamp.com/album/th.....he-night-slept

Iron Savior just released a new song and video, turning my exhausting day into an incredible one in the process :) I am continually in awe of how amazing they sound - to consistently come up with choruses that feel like this one is what I aspire to! After going on hiatus for a few years in 2006, they really have returned better than ever.

This video shows off their new approach to video-making as well, not having been given a budget for it and so just making it themselves out of singing in the car or mucking about in the studio - I love the crack-up at the end, and just in general how these musicians have a sense of humour about the tough metal image!

I've been taking a look at Weasyl recently - I set up an account there ages ago but didn't really use it until now. Already it's been nice being able to sort my music into folders - and being able to submit the karaoke videos for my songs directly to there is a nice arrangement!

If you want to follow me there, you can get me at https://www.weasyl.com/~davidn . I'll still be submitting here when I release new music, but things will probably go on to Weasyl first.

Someone I work with showed me a video of a busker who has been gaining fame in Boston recently... because he plays a keytar while dressed in a bear fursuit.

http://www.vanyaland.com/2013/11/21.....-faneuil-hall/

Is it you?

Furfright 2013 happened! And we - Kjorteo, Budgiebin, Motodrachen, Susi, Scani, DF and others - went for the third and/or second time, and that now makes it a regular thing!

I didn't have anywhere near as hectic a day at work as I did last year, only having to spend some times filling out sheets with comments like "This contractor is an idiot", and had a pleasant journey down to pick up Kjorteo from the airport. The whole thing instantly felt familiar when I met up with him, and it was difficult to believe that it had been a year since we had last done it. Driving through the rush hour traffic once again, we raced Susi and DF's car to the convention and got there shortly after they did.

This was the first year that I had secured a room in the convention hotel, and throughout the weekend I was impressed by what a difference it made - we no longer had to plan in advance to shuttle people back and forth (because even those of us not there were just across the road an easy walk away) and our room was in easy reach, or it would have been if the hotel hadn't been built across a rip in space and time by M C Escher. We started off the holiday by going out for dinner, where Kjorteo presented me with Crush 40's third album (or more accurately, the third slight evolution of their only album), something that I would never have made the effort to import for myself! I am going to have to come up with something pretty spectacular this Christmas...

I was very touched in the evening by my roommates presenting me with a cake to mark the tenth anniversary of us meeting and forming our little community... I had forgotten that it had been coming up, but it's amazing to think of how much we've grown together in the last decade. Going to conventions like this regularly can only increase our bond!

On Friday we attended the opening ceremonies with another warm welcome by Belic, and after that I was in the Dealer's Den straight away to secure a copy of last year's convention DVD. It's odd how they aren't made more available - the higher-tier sponsorship tickets get them and otherwise they're only available at the table the next year - but it was worth the wait to see the slightly uncanny sight of myself on stage. Otherwise, I wandered around the artists' tables and proceeded to blow my entire commission budget within about ten minutes on four separate visits to the cashier. I secured an absolutely stunning picture of Whitney from Kitt Mouri, whose business card I had had left over from the last year, and got a couple of little character cards done by Caliosidhe. On the way back out, I then noticed that Max Blackrabbit was present with a table, and took the chance to get a piece from him that I had had in my mind for a very long time. And then I found a group of the cuddliest little Daleks ever on the stuffed animal table, so I just had to adopt one (he is now named Robert after the American historian).

So I'm still at... 1pm on the Friday, I'm going to have to speed this up a bit. After all that, I had lunch with Budgie and Max, then came back and some other things probably happened before I went to the Comic Jam with Kjorteo. This was an event hosted by guest of honour Wallaby where we were provided with a pile of six-panel comics with one panel filled in, and could draw one panel each to attempt to continue the story. My favourite was one that we both contributed to, a comic that all the artists involved did beautifully on, and I'll post it soon - it was fantastic to be able to steer the story despite a comparative lack of drawing ability.

We then went to a Friendly's, a sort of chain diner place, that was down the road from the hotel - I had been in one of them before in a shopping centre near our house, and it was incredibly eerie to see as we stepped in that this place was exactly the same decor and layout, as if they pre-assemble their entire restaurants according to one blueprint and then just drop them all over the country out of a helicopter. We created a very hard night for the people there as we were part of roughly four million people from the convention who turned up there, and many people had their food served cold, but ours was ice cream and so it was perfect.

I finished off the evening with DF by going to the karaoke and singing Breaking the Law by Judas Priest, which at least three people recognized - I was unimpressed with some girls in the audience who had been unable to catch the words of the chorus after several iterations. Then we went to a group reading of The Eye of Argon, a truly horrendous piece of fiction in which I was never clear what the story was or what was happening at any point - our challenge was to read out passages from it without laughing, and I got in to attempt it after someone else's overdramatic "He dropped to his knees!" mime resulted in almost his entire arse falling out of his jeans.

Saturday was the most intense day, starting with the Masquerade rehearsal at 10am. Kjorteo came with me again due to planning to attend writing panels in the afternoon, and DF came down on the off-chance that any of the registered acts failed to turn up. Fortunately, they achieved this in huge numbers, giving the highest number of walk-in slots that I had ever seen (out of, er, twice) and allowing him and several others a space in the contest. As the one with the least setup to do, I was on first again, and I felt far more anxious starting in front of the smaller more silent crowd than I did during the real performance later. It came off well, though, and the rest of the rehearsal was an experience in itself, with a large amount of time watching Belic hilariously trying to choreograph a simple and brief Doctor Who sketch as everything else went wrong around him.

This time, something happened that may have eclipsed even the Masquerade for me, and that was when Susi allowed me to wear his self-made Angel gryphon costume and fursuit with the parade for the first time. Putting it on feels weird at first - it feels close and furry against your skin, especially as I'm built a little heavier than Susi so it looked like the gryphon had been at the pie and chips a little too much this year, but I was able to be zipped into the body with assistance. When the head first goes on and your vision reduces to just two grilled spaces in the eyes, it's like having been strapped into the cutest Darth Vader ever and you quickly heat up - but as soon as I stepped out of the hotel room it felt... incredible, not just wearing a costume but being seen as a totally different character and getting so much attention from people because of it. I was able to adopt his persona, being a lot more... physically expressive behind this strange mask, accompanied by Susi's new wolf suit, DF's werewolf and Scani's amazing otter costume Tautoru.

After the big group photo had been taken at the end, I couldn't resist wandering around more, just... performing and enjoying the reactions from people. In the corridor, I got stopped by a large turquoise dragon who greeted me enthusiastically, but I had no idea who he was and was racking my brains trying to think where I knew him from. He suddenly started speaking in German and I was able to hold up my end of the conversation - he stumbled over a couple of words and asked me for my assistance with them, then went on his way. It was only later that I realized he thought I was Susi (who speaks fluent German) inside the suit - a strange case of stealing someone's identity. If there is a better summary of my weekend than being dressed up as a gryphon trying to speak to a dragon in a foreign language, I don't know what it is.

The Masquerade came next - or rather the preparations for it. DF couldn't find the balaclava that he needed to wear for underneath the werewolf costume, so he went down to the dealer's den for another and found that they had all sold out. With the backstage meeting time upon us, we went down there and reassured the people that we were there, then said that we'd be back in twenty minutes after a zoom to the Wal-Mart just down the street. Zoom there we did, and found out that nobody in the place knew what a fucking balaclava was. Eventually DF remembered the possibility of "ski mask", and we searched the sporting goods and menswear sections to no avail before just heading back just in time for the start of the show.

I was in the fourth slot this time, and so had a short wait before I was on - however, no stage appearance could ever match the stress of the previous hour and time went quickly before I was summoned out to the stage area to give my second Furfright performance! I walked on without having been provided with a microphone, so my first joke was written for me - and then I just... can't really remember anything about the performance at all. It all seemed to come naturally, apart from the thirty seconds where I completely forgot what the next part was and just had to improvise until I remembered what I was supposed to be saying (7:35 to 8:00 in the video, if you're interested). It was wonderful to see myself so soona fter the performance this time, thanks to Kjorteo, Budgiebin, Scani and possibly others filming me from the audience!

DF's turn came soon after that, and I filmed him as he performed a song he wrote on the way back from the previous Furfright, "Open the Way", while in his wolf costume with cable ties secretly digging into his balaclava-less head on the inside. His suit really is... magical - there's an elastic bit inside that fits the jaw, so the mouth really does move as he talks and sings, and... it really is like watching an anthropomorphic wolf there up on stage.

The backstage area came with its own show in itself - I would love to commend the kind fursuiter who saw me on the cane at the end of the show and hastily got up to offer me his seat in the wing area. I tried desperately to whisper to him that I didn't need the cane and it was just part of the act, but he just couldn't hear me through his head. There was also the moment when one of the stage ninjas, who was dressed as Deadpool, attempted a roll on stage and managed to tear an eight-inch gash down the back of his trousers, revealing polka-dotted boxer shorts - the first we knew of this backstage was when we saw him bent over a table in front of us having his bottom duct-taped together again by a helpful stage assistant.

Belic was fantastic throughout as the master of ceremonies - he has a self-deprecating sense of humour that's very British, acting as the only sane man amongst the fluffy chaos that he's barely holding together around him (come to think of it, no acting may be necessary on his part here). At the end of the show when they hand out the awards, I wasn't expecting anything and when he announced a prize for "a very talented and funny individual" I was already moving aside to let the other comedian Flash Timberwolf through, but I was shocked and astonished to receive the 2nd place prize behind regulars Drama Armada. That shock was only compounded when the Belic's Choice award was announced - I think that the audio equipment may have captured an involuntary "Fuck me!" from me as DF's name was called and he stepped forward to receive it. He'd gone from a walk-in on the off-chance to the pick of the night... an incredible achievement!

It wasn't even over after that - as soon as we'd come off stage, we went upstairs to the writing panel where Kjorteo was waiting for us before he presented to the audience, and then obligingly put our elation in check by reading an incredibly depressing passage from <i>The Afflicted</i>. But this - and the way that the first thing anyone said when he had finished was "That was really intense" - are compliments, proof that he gets the reader to really care about his characters in the oppressive world that he's created around them. It was very well received, they talked about the themes fluently even though he had only had the chance to read one scene... and it was great to watch them discuss it. After that, there was a very funny Hitchhikers' Guide/Red Dwarf style story read by Ben Goodridge - another book that I'd really like to see once it's finished.

We closed the day by staying in the same room to attend an improvisation panel where everyone came up with some fantastic and/or shocking stuff (including one participant who slowly drifted into doing an impression of my accent in the questions game!) and then retired to our room to play Cards Against Humanity, a couple of us in underwear because they had been asleep, and giving very wrong impressions of what our room was like to the visitors.

Sunday was a much quieter day, where we got up late and attended the cooking panel put on by Budgie and Motodrachen, where they gave their group some good advice on the basics and I refrained from mentioning any of my more flabbergasting anti-cooking stories - then a couple of us moved next door to a comedy panel which rapidly became a heartwarming panel, talking about how we can celebrate the creativity of the furry community instead of the negativity and awfulness that characterizes most of the Internet. They called the maker of one of the panellists' fursuits up from the audience - LaughsAtThunder - and I was shocked when they mentioned she was only fourteen years old... she seriously has a very famous future ahead of her.

During the downtime afterwards I wandered the hotel and hoovered up about a bajillion Streetpasses on the 3DS, then we went out for lunch as a large group and came back to the hotel to have a sketch session together (the results of which I'm still slowly uploading as I find them). All too soon, it was time for the closing ceremonies, and we had the surprise of JTigerclaw taking the stage to sing a piece to his girlfriend Katalina... I'm sure everyone in the room knows that there's only one reason you get your girlfriend up on stage in front of a crowd of people, but it was still an amazing moment where he used the last line of his song to propose to her. One wander of the post-party and another improvisation panel run (I wouldn't quite say "organized") by the great Wag later, it was time to sleep for the last night of the convention.

Kjorteo and I were still around the following day, and I got the chance to talk to Kiffa and Sedge and wandered the hotel a bit before I got the message that he was ready for visitors. It's amazing how quickly they transform the building - by the time I was up, the dealer's den had been packed away, the Furfright signs had been changed and there was a hospitality school moving in, with the panel rooms that had previously housed people in giant blue dog costumes playing Party Quirks now hosting some sort of seminar on the history of plumbing. I've only ever thought of the hotel as a haven for this weird and incredible subculture, and it was strange to think that for most of the year it's just a hotel - hovering between two dimensions for just a couple of days near Halloween.

But in the hotel over the road, we had the guitars out and talked through some music we were writing together, with me putting his ideas into the computer... that was a very special and rare moment. It made me realize that while the convention is a wonderful atmosphere, it's not just the environment but little things like that - and introducing DF to sashimi, and Kwisa observing "I know how you play American football - you run ten yards and then you have a commercial break", and Kjorteo instructing Susi on the correct way to get out of a car... those make it truly special.

Are you really still reading this? Wow. In that case - thank you so much to everyone who made it for being part of this experience, and for being part of a cluster of groups of friends that's continuing to grow closer... it's been wonderful for the last three years and I hope it continues to be a landmark of the year for us all!

Furfright was an amazing experience as ever, and a full writeup is coming soon - in the meantime, here's a small video of part of the experience, where I had the pleasure of performing alongside all the great people at the Masquerade! In this video I talk to the best of my ability about Hatoful Boyfriend and raise awareness for the colourblind by miming kicking over crippled people. It is a wonderful, incredible experience, hearing people laugh at something you’ve written.



At 7:35, I completely forget the rest of the act and I have to just keep improvising until I remember what I was going to say next ;)

The shouter of the last comment heard in the video is unknown. Was it you? :)

Furfright 2013 is in A WEEK! It's crept up on me this year - last time I remember anticipating it for months, but I've been kept so busy this time that I've only just noticed how close it is.

I'll be arriving on the Thursday evening, picking  kjorteo up on the way and going around with him,  budgiebin, the  iron-k group with  susi,  scani,  darknessfalls... and whoever else happens to be there!

I should be recognizable wearing the badge in my avatar, so say hello if you're around - I'll also be on stage during the Masquerade, and probably being a colossal failure at it unless I seriously start practising soon.

I've been using my work phone more recently after I lost my own phone a few weeks ago... I just wanted to ask if this creative interpretation of the Backspace key is a feature unique to the model of phone that I'm using!

Right, well - I'm still trying to process this myself, but someone I knew in university who went off and started a power metal band called Ascension has just announced that he's also been involved with a side project, a band called Sharky Sharky where all the members are all anthropomorphic sharks.

There are four tracks available free on Soundcloud - I'd like to nominate "Legend of the Megashark" as being fantastically hilarious in particular.

https://soundcloud.com/sharky-shark.....e-forever-demo

Their stated aim: "Kids don't have much to listen to today, no real live bands to look up to. They have One Direction, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus...all artists who glorify love, fashion and popularity - all things kids shouldn't have to worry about right now, especially when enjoying music!"

You can follow them at https://www.facebook.com/Sharkysharkyband

I had a go at Rise of the Triad 2013!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3W.....n1vvc&hd=1

This was a game I had in the early 90s, and a remake came out without me noticing! I downloaded it and gave it a run, and... well, it's a bizarre, unique example of something getting all the little things right but all the big things wrong. Most notably, the performance is mystifyingly appalling - combine that with the way that the movement is so fast and it means the precision platforming bits are nigh-impossible.

But on the other hand, the great soundtrack has been lovingly remade and recreated (and included in plain MIDI style if you prefer that), and the frantic fun "don't ask questions about why there are trampolines in a monestary, just go" style of gameplay and bizarre in-jokey attitude of the game are intact. So I love what they've tried to do with it - it just needs to be... fixed before I can really give it a recommendation.