So many times, my finger has hovered over the purchase button on the spit’n'polished XBLA version of amazeballs roguelike/platformer Spelunky. Every time, I’ve thought ‘no, surely it’ll be on PC any day now. PC was its original home – it would only be right’, and my finger was withdrawn. Actually, that’s a lie, most of the time it was ‘Oh Christ, the Xbox Live interface is just horrendous and what are Microsoft Points in pounds and screw this, I’ll just play the old version again’, but the outcome was the same.

My impatient patience has paid off at last, however – the shiniest version of these random, lethal dungeon adventures really is coming to PC any day now.(more…)