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Guiding Light

Guiding Light

As gamers grow and age, ripening with the industry, so too does the paraphernalia that accompanies them. It seems to me that gaming guides are becoming the sophisticated coffee-table book for our hobby; not quite ‘Pre-Raphaelite Curves’ or ‘The Little Big Book of Shite Modern Art’, but they aren’t far off.  If I wasn’t so [...]

June Bugged

June Bugged

It was supposed to be a great month.  The dawn of the second age of gamekind, the month the great games came upon us all.  And then there were none.  The plump hits started dropping off like dead parrots from a perch and suddenly, June is looking decidedly unappetising.  Batman Arkham Asylym has been snatched [...]

Manual Override

Manual Override

I thought that perhaps throwing this into the wider pool of opinion would yield interesting results because I don’t wish to make a general statement about gender on the issue, however, I have noticed a trend when it comes to that oft overlooked part of gaming…the manual.  Whether it is directly related to the part [...]

Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward

Helpfulness seems to be a trait that some (especially the more hysterical tabloids) would have you believe is careening out of sight of civilisation and plummeting straight to the depths of Hades before the proverbial handcart even picks up speed.  To be honest, in many ways, they are not far wrong, but oddly enough, for [...]

Game Dawdling

Game Dawdling

Something that usually only pensioners and absent minded gardeners do is now creeping into my life in the most astonishing places – pottering.  Or in other words, ‘faffing around’.  Games like Sims 2 are meant for this type of thing as you spend time deciding which of the twenty almost identical stripy tops to pick [...]

Reaver: Anti Hero and Cad

Reaver: Anti Hero and Cad

I feel that I’d better start this post with a spoiler warning for those who haven’t yet played or made their way to the furthest reaches of Fable 2.  While I have tried to word things carefully, such a piece was not possible without a degree of spoilerific wordiness, so my apologies, you have been warned.

Having [...]

It’s a Classic…

It’s a Classic…

Mark Twain once wrote “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”  I know because I once saw it quoted on a Waterstones carrier bag.  This can also be true in part, of games – or at least for me.  Those who devour each and every popular release [...]

Adding Up To A Headache

Adding Up To A Headache

My biggest problem lately is adding.  Not the mathsy variety but the Friends List kind.  Up until now, Janey-no-mates here has only ever added people from forums (after vetting their posts to avoid nobs, dobbas and ‘ists) and more lately, some fine folk from Ready Up.  Then my profile appeared in a more public setting [...]

I Want Them Now!

I Want Them Now!

I’m torn.  My dilemma is that for once, the stars have aligned and there are so many new games coming out that I have an interest in that I don’t know where to start.  Oh, and I have ’strained finances’.  Typical.  For once there is release after release clamouring for my pre-order and my wallet [...]

A Little Too Ironic…I Really Do Think

A Little Too Ironic…I Really Do Think

Tomorrow will see the release of Sims2 Apartment Life. Usually by now my pre-order would have been long placed and I’d be bouncing up and down awaiting the latest expansion.  But I’m not.  No pre-order, no pouring over screenshots, nothing, and I have to take a moment to wonder why.  After careful thought, I believe [...]