Geek, Cultured

I never played through The Darkness when it was first released back in 2007; as much as it was lauded by friends and critics alike it slipped my radar and I completely forgot about it. It disappeared, people eventually stopped trying to compel me to play as other games overshadowed it. Then, five years later, [...]

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’m a fan of the sport of Rugby. I believe, as something I like to invest my time in, it gives great returns. Unlike other sports – Say Football (Soccer) or Cricket – the return is often immediate and consistent. I’m not the hardcore fan that follows every single match nor do I have a [...]

This years E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo, for the layperson) opened with a press conference from Microsoft. Although I’ve tried to fit everything in here, I can’t guarantee I hit all the notes and will only write about what I know. I’ll speculate a plenty but this is just my opinion. Feel free to comment! Modern [...]

Those of you that have turned your PS3’s on this past week will have noticed something sinister about your sign in. Yes, that’s right, the Playstation Network is down. I’ve been asked, as the “Guy who knows about this stuff” numerous times over the past week about the PSN downtime and a lot of those [...]

The Game Developers Conference commence and, just as swiftly, came to a close this past week. I wasn’t there, no, but I watched the internet as new information poured out after all the talks and hands-on tests of the newest – and greatest – video games. Videos and news stories have continued to flood gaming [...]

Months of speculation ended on Thursday as Sony came out on stage to announce their newest handheld system, the successor to the PSP/Go, the aptly named “NGP” or Next Generation Portable. The console, a direct contender to Nintendos newly announced 3DS, boasts a powerful processor along with some impressive features that should, with any luck, [...]

Splinter Cell: Conviction Review!

January always comes as a hard month, money is tight, the weather is cold and deep down all we really want to do is spend the little money we have left in our pockets. Well, we can’t! As a gamer I can usually deal with the bitter January by stocking up on those titles that [...]