When it comes to sucking up vast swathes of time in a vaguely constructive manner, nothing beats video gaming. Our PS4 is having, as we say round here, heavy hammer. And as it also doubles as the DVD player, is probably pulling a full 8 hour daily shift. Here’s our run down of the Moseley Towers gaming world:

Ace Combat 7 – myself and jazzhead son have just finished this uber-Japanese flight combat sim (though it’s pretty arcadey). I played Ace Combat 2 on the original PS and have been hooked since. The story, as always, is bonkers and incomprehensible but that’s not why we’re here. Pulling an immelman turn in a F-14 then sticking two missiles up the tailpipe of a Mig-29. Yes please. The graphics are georgeous, and the learning curve dadfriendly enough for me to finish the game on easy. 20 missions and my only gripe is that as there is no ground-targets only mission I had no excuse to fly the A-10 Warthog.

COD Modern Warfare : Mrs Moles is playing through – very deliberately – this total and utter classic FPS. The ghillie suit! The Chernobyl level, the container ship.

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