Ok, so I've been wanting to do this post for a couple of weeks and now seems as good a time as any since I'm literally waiting for the 'mini-squash' to happen. This for me is quite an adventure into the unknown as I've never played an MMORPG before. I've managed to avoid playing the electronic drug addition known as World of Warcraft, mostly by ( Read more... )

Wow! I haven't posted in eleven weeks apparently, according to the great LiveJournal. Since it's been so long, I thought I'd better to the obligatory 'not dead' post, so I thought I'd write about a game I completed just before things kicked off for my literature review. That game was Overlord II which is, curiously, the sequel to the 2007 game ( Read more... )

The other day, I was looking through Steam and came across a game called 'Light of Altair', of which a free demo was available. I downloaded and played it. Unfortunately, this game me a bit of a thirst for space management games, like the Spore space stage. As a result, I found two other similar game demos that I thought I'd share my opinions of ( Read more... )

While watching a Zero Punctuation the other day, I noticed this in the news section. The story has embedded within it, an episode from Gametrailers TV, which focuses on Valve and things they're doing. The main focus was Left 4 Dead 2, a sequel to the game they released November last year and how their aim is to have this sequel released in 12 ( Read more... )

Anyone who's spoken to me on MSN since I graduated will know my love of Stargate has been strongly rekindled of late. The reasons for this are two-fold. The first reason (although second chronologically, but shorter) is that we are not far off from the new Stargate spin-off series Stargate: Universe, which sees a group of humans trapped on an ( Read more... )

Well here's something I hadn't expected to do so soon. Kitsune was around last night and after watching 'The Dark Knight' and a spin on 'Super Mario Galaxy', we ended up try a new game I recently downloaded called 'Portal: Prelude ( Read more... )

I'm going to start this review the same way Yahtzee did on Zero Punctuation so, bear with me ( Read more... )

I bought (or, more accurately, I was bought) Spore this weekend for my birthday and it is so cool! It's a game by Will Wright, creator of 'SimCity' and 'The Sims' and you can see elements of both games in here. The game see you at first taking control of a simple creature in the primordial oceans of a planet which, using the inbuilt creator, you ( Read more... )