Sundays are for remembering bugs of games past. The one where snakes couldn’t bite you if you were laying down. The one where, out of nowhere, you got a jeep, driven by a man in a red beret. Those were good bugs. Sigh. Anyway, there’s a lot of other things going on in videogames. Let’s have a look at some of those.

• Simon Parkin’s The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono is essential reading: “But Ono is a far smarter man than the scattershot front might suggest. Despite his relatively high position within the company, these outrageous attacks on his employer are too sustained and calculated to be a momentary lapse in judgement and, while he is clearly angry for having worked himself into hospital, there’s a smile and quickness behind the eyes that suggests he is fully in control of all he’s saying. He clearly takes pleasure in his irreverence, even if there is a genuine seed of resentment at its core.”

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