After reading our best handheld consoles list, I was reminded of the time I fell out with my mum’s cat. Not because she’d scratched me, or because she’d peed against the curtains for the umpteenth time that week. Not even because she’d brought in another decapitated mouse from the garden as some sort of ceremonial ‘gift’ for looking after her while my parents were on holiday. This time, I’d fallen out with Bella – an admittedly adorable moggie with green eyes and the softest black and white coat – because, if it wasn’t for her, Amanda Ripley would still be with us. The star of Alien: Isolation would not have been impaled through the stomach at the hands of a Xenomorph. Her eyes would not have rolled back into her skull as she gasped her last, desperate breath. And her organs would not have spilled onto the tiled floor of Sevastopol Station’s components warehouse. But they did. And in the real world, I poured coffee all over the rug, dropped my Nintendo Switch on its side, and was chastised by my unsuspecting girlfriend after screaming ” Bloody hell, Bella !” at the top of my lungs at half-eleven at night….