Hooray and such! Last night I turned on my Xbox to play the new Red Faction demo, but as I logged in a friend invited me to play Left 4 Dead. And so I did. I joined in the last level of one the campaigns – not sure which one, hadn’t seen it before – and we tried to complete the level. Tried and failed. Repeatedly. Getting to the final house was easy enough, but the siege at the end was always a disaster. Too many zombies, not enough ammo, special infected coming from the worst places, it was massacre after massacre.

Still just about the best fun you can have with a joypad, though. I very much enjoyed myself.

And I got an achievement for letting my chum Myoptika out of a toilet.