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Review: Space Run
30 Sep 2014
30 Sep 2014
I don’t have any real interest in the new consoles or any of the big titles at the minute, so I’ve decided to take a few more punts on smaller-scale/indie games instead. Hopefully, this will expose me to more genuine creativity and new ideas and, who knows, I may discover a...
Jack of all Trades
12 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014
So, Destiny is out and I’m hearing a lot of buzz saying that it has elements from Halo, Borderlands, World of Warcraft and many other different game genres all rolled into one, and that it is not necessarily succeeding at emulating all of them. As someone who wasn’t a fan of...
Batman: Arkham Origins | Review
02 Jul 2014
02 Jul 2014
Well, I finally got round to playing Batman: Arkham Origins. I loved Arkham Asylum and Arkham City was pretty good to, but I’ve been putting off playing this one because a) it is a prequel, b) it’s been developed by a different studio and c) didn’t feature the original voice cast...
Retrospective: Discworld Noir
28 Jun 2014
28 Jun 2014
Anyone who follows me on a semi-regular basis might have noticed that I’ve been on something of a Discworld binge recently. I’m a massive fan of Terry Pratchett’s universe and have been through all of the audiobooks in the series in the last year-or-so (which is why there are so many...
Stop Over-hyping Things!
25 Jun 2014
25 Jun 2014
So, a few weeks ago, Watch_Dogs launched to a universal chorus of ‘Meh!’. I haven’t played the game myself, but the general consensus seems to be that ‘it didn’t live up to the hype’. But, as Yahtzee said in his review, how could it?
In Defence of... Changing Things
18 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
Given my interests and line of work (i.e. the fact that I am a massive nerd), you probably won’t be surprised to know that a large number of my friends were the sort of people took great delight in pointing out (and complaining about) every little detail that was changed from...
Why don't I do 'proper' game reviews?
14 Jun 2014
14 Jun 2014
I haven’t had any questions or comments on my blog yet, but if I were to get any, I think this would be one of them: why do I rarely write game reviews in the window immediately after a game has launched? ‘Real’ reviewers get the games early or on launch...
Doing Free-to-Play Wrong
10 Jun 2014
10 Jun 2014
Lives are Dead!
09 May 2014
09 May 2014
Remember lives in games? Of course you do! Remember how they stopped using them when arcades stopped being popular and we no longer had to insert coins to play games? No, neither do I, and I cannot understand why…
In Defence of... Alpha Protocol
28 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
I want to talk about a game I’ve been playing recently, but which wasn’t well-received at the time. This allows me to continue my recent ‘In Defence of…’ series and write a game review at the same time. Who ever said men can’t multi-task!