Well, before Monday I was going to do a blog all about how I’d seen The Rolling Stones over the weekend and about how Andy Murray had won Wimbledon and about how I’d gone to Rezzed at the NEC in Birmingham last month and about all the games I’d been playing. And then this happened . Now, we are all citizens of the Internet, and like many of you I never had the chance to meet Ryan Davis in real...
Disclaimer: My yearly awards include all games I actually played this year and not necessarily just games which were released this year. Best Gameplay/gbrading’s Game of the Year Dishonored : If you had asked me in January what Dishonored was, I wouldn’t have known. Before E3 this year, I’d never heard of the game before. Then E3 came along and it had an impressive showing. Finally, I read Gian...
Hey Giant Bomb! Hey blog! Long time no see! Seeing as I posted my roundup last year, I felt it only right to do the same this year. In 2011, I think I must have played easily double the number of games I played in 2010. This, despite the fact that I had left university in 2010 and this year obtained full-time employment and thus my time for playing games dropped significantly. Perhaps it was be...
Hey Giant Bomb! Been a while since I've posted a blog, so he's the end of year roundup: The customary selection of the very finest (and the very worst) 2010 had to offer for me when it came to playing games. As a reminder, this is my roundup of the games which I actually purchased and played during this year , and does not necessarily include games which were actually released this year. Nevert...
Reborn of the Ocean To: Christoph Hartmann, Managing Director, 2K Games. Complaint concerning bad business practice; BioShock 2 PC Dear Mr Hartmann, I have been a player, and I must confess a fan of your company's video games for quite some time. Indeed, I have very fond memories of the games from your now consolidated developer PopTop Software, such as Railroad Tycoon and Tropico. Since the re...
Feel the Payne! Character faces have always been one of the hardest things to accurately portray in games. A good, realistic face can involve you in the storyline and make you care about the character, whilst looking at someone whose lips look like bricks and with eyes like a dead fish can totally distance you from the plot. Much has already been said on the subject of the proposed theory of th...
The Peak Tower Bird Dish. At least I was there for a bit. Not anymore sadly, as the summer months draw to a quick, sudden and ultimately wet ending. Anyway, back to the point of this posting. When I was in Hong Kong during my holiday, a city of massive skyscrapers, very little litter and, whilst I was there, the Beijing Olympic Equestrian Events (there were no suitable parks in Beijing itself,...
Playing the Medic on Team Fortress 2 is a singular experience. One of the main background support roles along with the Engineer, the Medic is tasked with healing teammates and deploying Ubercharges to make characters invincible for a short period. The Medic isn't particularly good at killing the enemy himself: his syringe gun isn't particularly powerful except at close range, and it's rather di...
The holiday season is ushered in once again, and is marked as usual by sweltering humidity and temperatures, heavy storm showers, and enough assorted insects buzzing around to keep a biologist excited for years. And of course that means that many people are jet-setting off to parts unknown and known, or rushing down in their cars and caravans to the South Coast (if you live in Britain), utterly...
I was sitting here, absent-mindedly drinking my tea and feeling slightly morose that I am just getting over flu (and in the summer to boot when the weather is just starting to improve), when I realised that I hadn't written a blog in over a month (apologies, I just forget sometimes) and I might as well write about something topical. So, with this big event called the Electronic Entertainment Ex...