Ctrl Alt Dad is live
A new UK gaming and tech site for people whose free evenings are measured in minutes, not hours.
TL;DR
Reviews written around real constraints: short sessions, interruptions, and a budget that has other demands on it.
Most gaming sites review games. This one is trying to answer a narrower question: is this worth your limited free time?
If you have a job, a family, or both, the calculus changes. A ninety-hour open world is not automatically better value than a twelve-hour game you can actually finish. A headset that sounds incredible is no use if it means you cannot hear a child two rooms away. A console that takes twenty minutes to update before it will let you play has already eaten a third of your evening.
What to expect
Reviews, guides and the occasional bit of news, all judged against the same framework. Every review answers a fixed set of questions before it gets anywhere near a score, so you can compare two reviews written months apart.
There will not be a review here of something that has not been used properly. If a verdict is provisional, it will say so. If something has not been tested, it will say that too.
What is coming
The plan for the first few months is straightforward: build a foundation of cornerstone articles, get to a reliable weekly review, then add the newsletter. No launch-week promises about features that do not exist yet.
The Weekly Manifest
One email a week. What is worth your time, and what is not.
