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Pepper Grinder is out now, which is wonderful – do give it a look if you’re after a fun, chuggy action game with a touch of Drill Dozer to it. I played the game while surrounded by actual drills, as we’re having our bathroom redone at the moment. We haven’t had builders in the house for a while. We put off the current job until it reached the point where you literally couldn’t emerge from the bathroom without a rusted tap in your hand and a cheerful flood of ground water following you into the hallway. It’s been noisy and friendly and fascinating.<\/p>\n

Let’s linger on this just a little, because it’s the reason for our actual game of the week. The builders, who are excellent, turned up on day one and immediately put on a radio they’d brought with them, which was tuned to one of those stations only builders appear to be able to locate on the dial, a process I imagine is a bit like those specific alternate worlds Will can cut through to in His Dark Materials. Radio installed, the house was swiftly filled with Ultravox, which, now I think of it, sounds a bit like a builder’s supply brand name anyway. Next, though, came stripping the tiles, which I had assumed would be a forensic process – somewhere between art restoration and the excavation of an archaeological dig. Instead, it sounded like a bunch of wolves were in our bathroom eating the walls for half an hour. Then we looked out the window and our bath tub was magically on the lawn.<\/p>\n

Enough of this. Our game of the week is Minecraft, and it’s because while all this noisy, juddering, brilliant real-world building was going on, my daughter was back into one of her Minecraft cycles. In the real world, builders will be sorting our bathroom for a fortnight. In Minecraft, my daughter built several subway extensions while I had a quick lunch and watched her at work.<\/p>\n

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Pepper Grinder is out now, which is wonderful – do give it a look if you’re after a fun, chuggy action game with a touch of Drill Dozer to it. I played the game while surrounded by actual drills, as we’re having our bathroom redone at the moment. We haven’t had builders in the house for a while. We put off the current job until it reached the point where you literally couldn’t emerge from the bathroom without a rusted tap in your hand and a cheerful flood of ground water following you into the hallway. It’s been noisy and friendly and fascinating. Let’s linger on this just a little, because it’s the reason for our actual game of the week. The builders, who are…<\/p>\n

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