games Archives - matt thornton

Modern gaming… from the perspective of a non-gamer

August 8, 2017 Matt Thornton 2

I’m not a gamer. Well, I’m in to gaming, but not in the sense of those who obsessively invest a lot of time and money in consoles and games and unlocking every last gold coin, hidden mission and easter egg*. The good old days? As kids we had Amstrads, and […]

Persist, and you might get free stuff: Lovefilm

September 11, 2008 Matt Thornton 3

I was a long time user of the Blockbuster mail order DVD service. For me, in Guernsey, it worked well enough, DVDs arrived promptly and I was pretty happy. Around the same time, I trialled the Lovefilm service (mainly, I think, due to a friend of mine doing one of […]