Australian games journalist Alanah Pearce has used a novel tactic in response to persistent internet trolls: she tells their mummies. It followed her discovery that many of her more vociferously awful online critics were pre-pubescent rather than the middle-aged losers she’d been picturing, so she used Facebook to track down their mothers, and forwarded on their luridly explicit comments. Elsewhere, games out this week include Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PC), Snake’s stealthy infiltration of a thinly disguised Guantánamo Bay finally arriving on PC and Elite: Dangerous, the staggeringly vast and open-ended space trading and piracy game, which now gets the full-blooded next-generation treatment. It’s compatible with the upcoming Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset and is the nearest you can currently get to being a starship captain.
