Halo's Mixtape

Maybe it's because I've just played through several hours of teen rebellion, but I feel like breaking some rules. Unfortunately these are rules of video game reviewing, which I am paid to care about (and do actually care about, because I am sad) but which I really ought not to ever burden you with because they are, let's be honest, incredibly dull. So apologies and also: please adjust your excitement downwards, because the circumstances around Mixtape mean I'm obliged to start talking about them. Read more

Perfect playlist, but just a decent videogame.

Ignore the haters: American teens absolutely listened to The Jesus and Mary Chain in the '90s. That the music somehow isn't accurate is the most off-base criticism lobbed at Mixtape, Beethoven + Dinosaur's new game about a music-loving teen's "perfect" mixtape. Sure, the Scottish noise-mongers were far from the most popular band at the time, but they weren't that obscure; they were on major labels, their records were easily found at chain stores, they played the mainstage of Lollapalooza in 1992 (Pearl Jam actually had an earlier slot than them), and their 1994 song "Sometimes Always" hit the

If Stacey Rockford, the teen protagonist of Mixtape, seems like a jerk, that's because she is.