Following your own path in Skyrim
The wind cuts into my face, the only skin still exposed to the elements. Ice crunches underfoot as I approach the ruined city of Saarthal where my fellow students await my arrival–no, wait, I’m not going to do this. There are already enough blogs publishing fan-fic based on adventures in The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim … Read more
Holiday photos from The Witcher 2
I was rather a big fan of The Witcher. The sequel is also a flawed masterpiece, although perhaps with more emphasis on ‘masterpiece’ this time around.
Red Frustration: game difficulty vs. storytelling
In narrative games, what comes first? The story, or the game?
The Witcher experience
This is not a review. The Witcher isn’t a game you can judge by ordinary standards.
Heavy Rain review
OK, I admit it: I did cheat slightly. I rewound the story and repeated a scene to get a ‘better’ outcome. And I feel guilty about it.
Charting the Uncharted
< Rather late to the party, I have recently discovered the Playstation 3, which means it is at last time for me to cast my eye over the much lauded Uncharted games.
Flight Control: iPhone finally gets a good game
iPhone games are big business. The only problem is that most of them are rubbish – with the notable exception of Flight Control.
GRID obliterates the realism-arcade divide
Racing games have always been something that I’ve liked more in theory than in practise, always being overly silly and arcadey or tediously ‘realistic’. GRID falls into a pleasant in-between
Review: Bioshock
A few weeks ago I wrote about Bioshock‘s brilliant plot twist, at which time I had not yet completed the entire game. Now that I have done just that I can start to form an opinion of this unusual game.
