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In Defence of... Changing Things
18 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
Given my interests and line of work (i.e. the fact that I am a massive nerd), you probably won’t be surprised to know that a large number of my friends were the sort of people took great delight in pointing out (and complaining about) every little detail that was changed from...
Why don't I do 'proper' game reviews?
14 Jun 2014
14 Jun 2014
I haven’t had any questions or comments on my blog yet, but if I were to get any, I think this would be one of them: why do I rarely write game reviews in the window immediately after a game has launched? ‘Real’ reviewers get the games early or on launch...
Doing Free-to-Play Wrong
10 Jun 2014
10 Jun 2014
Lives are Dead!
09 May 2014
09 May 2014
Remember lives in games? Of course you do! Remember how they stopped using them when arcades stopped being popular and we no longer had to insert coins to play games? No, neither do I, and I cannot understand why…
In Defence of... Alpha Protocol
28 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
I want to talk about a game I’ve been playing recently, but which wasn’t well-received at the time. This allows me to continue my recent ‘In Defence of…’ series and write a game review at the same time. Who ever said men can’t multi-task!
On the topic of game reviews...
08 Mar 2014
08 Mar 2014
In my last blog I talked a bit about game reviews and how they might be improved so that they don’t just represent the opinions of one individual, with whom the reader may or may not agree. This time I wanted to continue to discuss how gaming journalism needs to...
From a certain point of view...
28 Feb 2014
28 Feb 2014
I’ve talked a lot recently about personal taste and opinion. In ‘Can’t we all just get along’, for example, I talk about how people seem to confuse personal preference with quality. Thinking along similar lines, I’ve also been wondering whether traditional video game reviews are actually a good idea…
In Defence of Next-Gen Graphics
21 Jan 2014
21 Jan 2014
Quite a lot of people are attacking the next-gen gaming consoles because ‘the only tangible improvements that they will make to games is to the graphics’. I have said before that the launch of these new consoles is badly timed and I do not own either because I don’t feel it...