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 [...]

Coming in to What Dreams May Come I didn’t know what to expect; with Robin Williams in a leading role I didn’t know whether the tag lines plastered over the title screen would be some in-joke I was yet to be aware of or if the film would find levity on the smallest situations. Preconceptions [...]

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 [...]

Another film from the extensive selection over at Netflix! Leave comments and suggestions for future reviews! I find it extremely difficult to quantify what I expected going in to Drive Angry. It skirts between genres with such haphazardness that the audience becomes embroiled in the films twisted need to be something it simply is not [...]

Taking a film from the Netflix UK service and reviewing it! Expect more and on a regular schedule! Buried can’t claim to have an original concept, the singular focus on a man in peril has been done time and again to varying degrees of success; going in I knew exactly what I had signed up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As some one who enjoyed the Bourne films, but recognises them as a completely different form of spy thriller to the older generations, I was enthused to learn that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was coming around for another turn at bat and went in with wide eyes full of hopeful wonder. Could this film change [...]