The Pickford Brothers

Finally making some good progress. The tutorial modes (a massive PITA) are all but done. 23 out 24 lessons are working. The last one just needs the corresponding element in the main game to be finished. The whole thing still needs a bit of polish but I'm reasonably happy with it. Ste designed the lessons and I think they work well in taking you through the key concepts of the game one step at a time. The tutorial is entirely optional but judging by our experience with Naked War it's something that players do want.

I've got about 12 things left to do before I can release the alpha version on Friday. Nothing too worrying and only a couple of them are vital.

I'm still playing Fallout 3 when I get a chance. This game continues to impress. It really is an incredible piece of work and Bethesda thoroughly deserve their success. I think my save file is just about nudging 49 hours (I completed the game at the 24 hour mark and reverted to an earlier save to carry on). I'm still discovering major locations. My character is almost at level 19/20.

I'm also playing a LOT of Naked War at the moment. We've had a few new players recently and I've found myself re-addicted again. I know I'm biased but I love this game. If you haven't tried it give it a go (you can play for ages for free) and I'll thrash you for a couple of games then sulk when you beat me.

Over last week or so I've clocked up 35 hours on Fallout 3. Now this game is brilliant. I haven't pl...

I've not updated what I've been working on much lately, as it's a top secret project that we can't really talk about.

I'm currently working on some documentation for that project, and we hope to have a prototype complete by the end of the year.

We've had to put Magnetic Billiards on hold while working on this prototype, so next year we'll either go back to Magnetic Billiards, or continue with the new project, depending on what our clients think of it.

I've finally replaced my dead 360 - buying and Arcade and swapping the hard disc from the dead one - which means I can catch up on the Fallout 3 DLC at last. I thought there were only three downloads, so I was delighted to see there are five available. I've played through the first two, which I thought were OK, but nothing amazing. Nice to just be able to continue playing it for a bit longer. I'm told the third one (Broken Steel) is the best of the first three, but I've since been distracted by Borderlands, which someone recommended to me as a Fallout 3 replacement.

I'm really, really enjoying it! I don't normally like FPS games, as I simply can't aim in 3D fast enough. The levelling up allows a cack-handed player like me to still be able to progress, which is what's sucked me in. And it looks like a 2000ad comic strip come to life, which is great too. I've mostly been playing offline in single player, taking it slow and picking off enemies one by one. I've got stuck a couple of times and asked my brother to jump in over Live, and it's been a right laugh - both of us are crap, and die a lot, but it's a completely different game in co-op mode - really frantic and stupid.

I was amused to see that Edge magazine gave this a 6. Haha, they really don't like games that are fun, do they?

We passed a big milestone today: our first indie game - Naked War - passed the 100,000 turn mark! O...