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Drunken Gaming

Friday, April 2, 2010

No, not the kind with friends. I mean that occurrence, late at night, when you stagger home, drunk, and aren’t tired. You think you want to play a game. But something is different. It’s not that normal urge to play Mass Effect 2 / Bioshock 2 / Napoleon: Total War or whatever else you’re playing right [...]

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Restore, Restart, Quit?

Friday, January 15, 2010

So, one of my other projects finally came to fruition – my gaming podcast, Restore Restart Quit. RRQ is a 90 minute podcast (there-abouts, anyway) with a view to waxing philosophical about games and gaming. Each episode we pick a serious gaming-related topic (for example, our opening subject is ‘Gaming as a Unique Medium’) and [...]

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SELECT * FROM WORLD WHERE…

Monday, January 11, 2010

“What a fascinating modern age we live in.” — Jack Aubrey It dawned on me today just how much life has become like Star Trek, in almost every way that matters – except bald men commanding starships on diplomatic missions to worlds where all creatures are humans with crinkley foreheads, funny ears and/or facial tattoos. [...]

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Video Game Standards

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

It has been recently made apparent to me that I am a bitter, jaded bastard who holds games against “too high a standard”. This surprised me when I heard it. Too high a standard? People will argue that games are a form of art, but still defend bad writing and a complete mis-use of the [...]

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