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What was I playing in August 2016?
Bit of a new thing here, and something to keep the old blogs alive something as well to keep my criticism of games going ( Read more... ) -
BREXIT...
Sounds like terrible high fibre breakfast cereal that would sure fire not play nice with my guts or a curse you make after your console is killed by a shitty update, But no this is the reality that we live with now in the UK. Last week we voted to leave the EU by the slimmest and shittiest of margins 52% to 48% practically 50/50, and the result? ( Read more... ) -
The EU referendum.
I should have posted this earlier with the vote now being tomorrow, however with just under 24 hours until the polls finally open maybe now is the best time to make my feelings clear on this subject ( Read more... ) -
Orlando....
Well it happened again, another twat decided that the best way to set the world to rights was to fire a load of bullets at a load of innocent people. This is now so common in the US that normally it isn't newsworthy, but the shooting at the Pulse nightclub made the headlines for making the triple achievement, a declared act of terrorism, directly ( Read more... ) -
DOOM: 2016 (early thoughts)
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..." - Terry PratchettWell I got it a few hours ahead of the Friday the 13th launch (I see what you did there id/Bethesda). ( Read more... ) -
The A14....
Widening plans got the go ahead this week, which for many like me that have to use that road on a daily basis feels like relief after years of waiting (and even though the work will cause in the short term a lot of problems and delays due to construction work ( Read more... ) -
XCom 2
I make it no secret that I didn't like the 2012 revival of Xcom that much. That much I've said time and time again, but OK I've warmed to it over time but it's still like something that I found at the back of my freezer after it was forgotten about for so long, and it's taking time to thaw out. It was much less the simplified combat that got to me ( Read more... ) -
Random thoughts on recent gaming news.
Tim Schafer gets $3million+ for pyschonauts 2And I wonder how long it will take for Timmy to ask for more money? Honestly didn't anyone learn anything from double fine adventure & spacebase DF9? You know two projects that asked for a lot of Kickstarter cash and ended with an underwhelming game and an unfinished game ( Read more... )
