Geek, Cultured

NBA 2K12 is very obviously built from the ground up by a team who absolutely adore Basketball. Whether it is the painstakingly detailed intro to Kurtis Blow’s Basketball where we see legends of the game take their most famous of shots or the mode where we as the player actually get to step in to [...]

The Binding of Isaac is a hard game to classify without drawing reference to numerous classics that line any gamers shelf so, without trying to move too far away from that knowledge, I’m going to try and come from this from a fresh pair of eyes, someone who won’t know what I mean when I [...]

I’ve always been fascinated by the evolution of horror films and when looking back there is perhaps none that stand out more, for me personally, than Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic that shaped a generation of films that would follow in its footsteps. The film has been recognised in the following decades for what it provided [...]

We’ve all been there, right? Stuck in a corner at a job we can’t stand looking out over co-workers we don’t want to be around and a boss that invades not only the hours we spend at work, but our very dreams at night. You haven’t? Well, neither have I, but some people can relate [...]

Sometimes, no matter how much I hear about something, I don’t check it out. Whether it’s me being belligerent or busy – Maybe both – but things ineviteably get swept under the carpet. These shows are often sold as something and put on a plate but something puts me off or steers me clear. In [...]