Here's an uncharacteristically subdued video with no stresses or sudden movements (well, two). It's Sphere by Neutral, which was given to me as a challenge by xaq, and it's a room escape game about escaping from a room. (And also about clicking on everything). Features "Music for Manatees" by Kevin MacLeod to make things relaxing, and Colorblind Assistant by Little Sky Studios to make things possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k06AOwPbef0&hd=1

If you're planning on playing this, I'd recommend doing that first before watching this video so as not to give anything away!

Following my complete failure to save the earth last time, I got a lot of very valuable advice about what to expect from UFO Enemy Unknown. So here, recorded for posterity, is a rematch where I successfully complete a mission - although I have to be honest and say that saving and reloading constantly still seems to be the best way to go.

This was played in OpenXcom, which is a source port of the original that has some interface niceties such as making it much less easy to misclick and send someone wandering off in the wrong direction, telling you how much of items you already have when you're buying them, and so on. It's also very moddable - the music pack is by Gifty (with a small adjustment by me).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHuWSVq0SM&hd=1

From my experience so far, the game seems to have a topsy-turvy difficulty curve of the first couple of missions being much, much harder than the ones that follow it - you start off with soldiers that are made of plasticine and can't hit the broad side of a barn, but once you've got people that have survived a couple of missions and have researched personal armour, the odds tilt much more heavily in your favour. I've got into the habit of save-scumming if I really don't like the outcome of a turn, but now that I have an idea of what I'm doing the game is merely very, very hard instead of insurmountable.

Here's another short video I put together last night after Quadralien mentioned this game to me. I should have known better. This is Sonic: Omochao Edition by Cinnosu, starring the hateful little tutorial-spewing robot from Sonic Generations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewGdxlz5Uc&hd=1

I've got to say that even though its purpose is to make your life difficult, this is an excellent mod - the term "romhack" conjures up images of badly-stapled-together Speedy Gonzales game modifications done in Russian basements, but the author made an actual quality game out of this, building a whole scoring system around the spoof mechanic. I'm now tempted to actually see how well I can do...

Here's a new, cleaner-looking logo! Which this new video doesn't use at all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWS2m_6ZAU&hd=1
This is Pink Hour, the charming new demo game from Pixel. It consists mostly of me screaming and serves as evidence that I need to be on anti-anxiety medication.

It's a Stumbling Through sequel! This time, to show how much better I've got at the game (ahem) since the first attempt, I set myself the challenge of getting all the way through the mines and jungle into the game's third stratum. And... well, I made it. Eventually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0-C3wbBcrY&hd=1

In a rather more literally-titled video than usual, here I look at a pre-release of a somewhat odd game called Goat Simulator. In it, I experience what life is allegedly like as a goat for twenty minutes, and destroy most of the town in the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d39HjSMZWhU&hd=1

Here are ten minutes or so of messing around in the pre-alpha of the long-awaited Carmageddon revival! I supported the Kickstarter for this in 2012 and it's great to finally see something come of it. The game is in its early stages yet - it's untextured and there are some obvious performance issues - but you can already tell that it retains the anarchic sense of fun that made the first two games so entertaining. They were pioneering at the time for only vaguely giving the player some objectives, and then stepping back and just letting them run riot in this crazy environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCfQIzZVqw&hd=1

I uploaded this today and then forgot to announce it! It's Portal 2 once again, and in this episode, Quadralien and I experience a mild bodyswap. Then we have some fun and injury with excursion funnels (or, as I prefer to call them, wibbly tube things).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_9czdsaIs&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruw81L7aXCs

In tribute to the great people at AGDQ this year, here is the only game that I've ever made an attempt at speedrunning - it's Prince of Persia on the PC. I used to play this all the time a few years ago, trying to take seconds off my time... but I hadn't played it since 2006 and a whole plethora of new techniques have been discovered since then, making my time look unimpressive in comparison. So to do something a little different, here I attempt to get to the game's end in the practice mode, which reduces your timer to 15 minutes so that - theoretically - you can't complete the game.

This is without a doubt the most exhausting video I have ever produced.

Do you remember that I was doing a playthrough of the two-player mode of Portal 2 with Quadralien? Because I didn't. However, I discovered this video of the third level that we put together last year and now it's finally edited together and available.

The level is intended to be a lesson in using light bridges, which we turn into a lesson in misusing light bridges. The video comes complete with an American commentator yammering away in your right ear if you turn the volume up enough, because apparently my microphone splitter picked up interference from the nearby radio tower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s5zSMNgM7s&hd=1