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GOTY 2012

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E3 2012

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GTOY 2011

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Best of 2010

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The Fallout Engine

Jul 26, 2014

One of the things I am most looking forward to, if Fallout 4 is in production, is the chance to see The Wasteland given a proper graphical overhall. The last two games have been created with the functional, if ugly Gamebryo engine which has evidently been valued for its ability to handle the complexities of Bethesda's huge open worlds. F3 and NV were pretty ugly games for the most part - howeve...

William Friedkin's GTA V

Nov 10, 2013

This is the theme song to this blog - Press Play. Recently I go through phases when watching movies. I am lucky to have a really good video shop (hell, DVD I suppose but old habits die hard) near me which has tons of old, foreign and obscure films and is staffed by people who really love the cinema. They are either in film school or they just want the chance to sit in a shop and watch movies al...

The Walking Dead - A Beautiful Fraud

Mar 30, 2013

Yep, this is a bit long, but there is cake and ice cream for anyone who makes it to the end... The moment that best sums up The Walking Dead comes as my eyes are welling up with tears and my throat is choked with emotion, and sobbing silently in front of my TV I hammer away at the A button of my controller with all my might. The utter and ridiculous incongruity of my emotions and actions forces...

I won't believe it!

Mar 2, 2013

So I am on page 19 of the NeoGAF thread which started as a result of the Skullgirls article Patrick wrote this week. Mostly it is a fascinating breakdown of how games are made, especially the laborious, time-consuming dedication that goes into making a hand-drawn 2D fighting game. I have learnt a lot. However it is also a revealing insight into how opinions are formed and how 'common sense,' is...

Thinking Not Required

Apr 21, 2012

This turned into a bit of an essay quickly, my congrats if you get to the end..... Pretentious? Moi? The Quick Look for Fez provoked a familiar reaction from portions of the gaming community. Although there were some positive or interested voices a small majority of comments were damning of a release they deemed ‘the game de jour for indie devs looking for wank material’ or another game hyped b...

More Ill Judged Ranting about Mass Effect

Feb 5, 2012

I've written a blog post complaining about Mass Effect and all of a sudden I feel deeply ashamed. I had to say it though. I just had to. I took a lot of inspiration for this from Go Make Me A Sandwich and excellent but sadly defunct blog on sexism in Gaming. The stuff related to Mass Effect and Bioware is here but it is all worth a read, even if you don't agree with it all. I didn't but it open...