Geek, Cultured

It’s always a tough thing building on success, people have such a high expectation for your product that inevitably they will often find flaw with the smallest of areas because of the standards set previously. RedLynx had a hard job on their hand when developing a sequel to one of the best selling Xbox Live [...]

Fez was always going to struggle to live up to expectations; with it coming out first through the Independent Game Festival (IGF) and then waiting a further four years until a full release a lot of people had put high hopes on the game, calling it an indie darling before,  building it up on to [...]

It’s hard to call Dear Esther a game no matter how pretentious that may come across to those  who aren’t invested in the gaming world; gaming as art is a discussion for another time and another day from someone far more knowledgeable in both subjects than I could ever claim to be. So, while playing [...]

When I first started gaming I was playing on an Amiga A1200 and had a limited selection of games. One of those games – Probably the most memorable of the selection – was Arkanoid; a simple game with little more than a bat and ball that players use to destroy sets of blocks, simple and [...]

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 [...]