As a once-enthusiastic Christmas aficionado who has since lapsed into doleful cynicism and meh-induced hand-flapping at the mere mention of tinsel, when I wake up with a flickering of seasonal joy stirring my stony old heart I have to grab and squeeze it, and treat it like the rare and precious thing it is. I [...]
Tue, December 14 2010 » Opinion Pieces » No Comments
You need this game. Sound familiar? A little too familiar, perhaps? Think about a game you want. Maybe it’s a new game, out today, piled high in towering stacks across the country in every supermarket and games shop. Everywhere you look you see it in its blue, white or green box, mocking you, watching you, [...]
Thu, November 11 2010 » Opinion Pieces » 5 Comments
I had my first real in-game role-playing experience a couple of weeks ago. Okay, how many of you stopped reading at this first sentence? Obviously you can’t reply, as you wouldn’t have read the thing you needed to reply to, but I’m going to assume the mere mention of role-playing inside the gaming arena is [...]
Tue, October 26 2010 » Opinion Pieces » 1 Comment
So, last time I cheated on a Smurf with some kind of robot fish bowl vacuum cleaner thing. That’s not the kind of thing that often happens in the land of the sane. But if video game fantasies can allow us to do things – intentional or otherwise – we would never do in our [...]
Mon, August 30 2010 » Opinion Pieces » No Comments
Gaming war stories. We love them. We love hearing how a video warrior stormed the enemy camp, fought his way through legions of soldier drones until their high commander appeared; raining missiles down from his ambulatory mecha-tank. We love hearing how our hero defied death, sprung fifty feet into the air, smashed his hand through [...]
Fri, August 27 2010 » Opinion Pieces » No Comments
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