Somehow the gaming world seems almost worryingly keen to embrace dystopian futures, and those visions of unbalanced years to come tend to tie in nicely with the idea of the individual versus some nameless larger entity. Perhaps many of us already feel this in our interactions with whichever social media giant has most recently sold on our data, and play out our frustrations in gaming … Continue reading The long and winding node – Renegade review
Coffee is one of my little luxuries, one of those daily pleasures that helps to make life just a touch better. I would hardly describe myself as a connoisseur, but I have certainly got to the stage where I prefer to buy the beans from specialist suppliers and then grind them at home before partaking of a morning brew. I know the chap who owns … Continue reading Has beans – Coffee Roaster review
Over there, sitting at the back of the cupboard in your non-gamer friend’s house, in with the jigsaws and the scrapbooks and the forgotten magazines from years ago, lies their copy of Scrabble. It is missing a tile or two, emerges into the light maybe once every year or so, most likely at Christmas, gets played, erratically and grumpily, and then goes back into the … Continue reading Vowel play – Hardback review
If you want to save the world in your games then you are certainly not short of choices, the only really issue being the nature of the threat you are trying to stave off. Zombies, aggressive forces, hackers, aliens, it is all there, while those who would like to save humanity from the onset of some terrible, rampaging virus (where would you get that idea … Continue reading Lab’s labours lost? – Infection: Humanity’s Last Gasp review
You may well be able to name a few superheroes off the top of your head, the likes of Superman (hyphenless), Wonder Woman (two words, no hyphen) or Spider-Man (two words, one hyphen), but only the more ardent devotees will be able to deep further into the lore and bring out names such as Green Lantern, while you have to delve into the darkest recesses … Continue reading I need a hero – Sentinels Of The Multiverse review
In those growing up moments when I was not haring around a playground with a coat buttoned only around my neck pretending to be Batman I wanted to be an astronaut. Whisper it, but nearly half a century later I still would love love love to go into space. Not necessarily to the moon or anything, but just high enough to be able to see … Continue reading A horizon full of events – Lux Aeterna review
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