Author Archive for sketch
Research and results!
After spending a significant amount of hours at the library studying the history of this tediously saccharine town and pouring over old records and plans at City Hall, I have made some interesting discoveries. The town in all its gruesome sweetness sits atop several rich seams of minerals and precious metals, and while all workings [...]
Fairytale Fights – Xbox360
Systems: Xbox360/Playstation 3. Developer: Playlogic Game Factory/Publisher: Playlogic International
Anyone who has peeled back the shabby corners of some of the best loved fairy stories will know the true, dark depths that lay beneath and the twisted idea of what once passed for happily ever after. Eschewing the modern, demure approach to these tales, Playlogic swings [...]
Bully 2 finally muscling up for a release?
After falling in love with Rockstar’s Bully for the Xbox360, I naturally scoured the net for any morsel of information that I could find on the possibility of a sequel, only to come away bitterly disappointed. I chalked it up to being one of those star games that settles for one hefty body blow before [...]
Shout out for some stunning Fable 2 writing
A friend of mine who adores Fable 2 from Bowerstone’s crooked rooftops down to Wraithmarsh’s swampy depths wrote this stunning piece on the game some time ago. After re-discovering it in my favourites list, I fell in love with it all over again and had to post the link:
http://therighteousperspective.blogspot.com/2009/04/hail-to-conquering-hero.html
Emotive, evokative, and well written, this short character [...]
Civ preparing to invade Facebook…
Interesting news recently about the mother of all time suckers – Civilisation and how it is soon to be invading Facebook.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=225884?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
Farms will be left untended, crops will wither, and cafe food will spoil as Facebook gamers migrate to begin forming governments, coalitions, and plotting invasions. This has the potential to be huge and employers and [...]
Blue Thunder
Barely awake and blinking from a suicidal sweeping of curtains, I sit at my desk as always and fire up my PC, just like I do every day. It gets used for the lion’s share of the clock and is only left cooling in peace long after I have decided on my course of leisurely [...]
Rocky solution to the house problem?
Having existed a mere handful of days in this grotty-little-nothing hole of a house and gazing wistfully at the construction plans for our home to be, my thoughts are constantly turning to our financial predicament. Having grudgingly accepted employment on the disgustingly lowly rungs of the criminal ladder, I am only bringing in a small [...]
Devon’s Evil Construction Scrapbook…
After some procrastination and much distraction by the devilishly sexy Renna, I have decided that my Devon’s Evil Construction Scrapbook (DECS for short), shall chart the progress (or lack thereof) of my new construction plans, in between the daily grind of life (and death – accidental of course). I may have to consider changing the [...]
First house, kiss, and everything else
After arriving at the only dowdy house that our joint finances could actually stretch to, I finally got a chance to speak to my housemate to be. Her name is Renna and I found her perfectly alluring. There is something mesmerising about her round eyes and penchant for green that reached parts other people don’t [...]
Build, Buy, Bum out…
Actually had my first Windows blue screen in I don’t know how long – thanks to Sims 3. The game seems just determined to make my life miserable one way or another, doesn’t it? That’s the third time it has crashed out on me in the build mode, and once when it has frozen instead. [...]
