Warning: Pedantry ahead
sonictempest I\’ve been watching (and enjoying) the new take on Carl Sagan\’s classic Cosmos series about the universe (this time around hosted by the entertaining Neil deGrass Tyson), but I\’m not…
I’m watching anime again
Which anime, you ask? Well… Fabulous.
Unlockable difficulties need to die in a fire
I spent a good thirty minutes or so trying to think of a witty title for the piece I’m about to write, at which point a phrase I had used…
Another late night on IRC
<@xephyris> i was asking a friend if he had bought deus ex <@xephyris> it came out as desu ex <@Iie-Kyo> lol <@SonicTempest> lol <@SonicTempest> get on making that mod ……
I haven’t done anything for the last six months
Or so it would seem! I was tempted to make this a blog post about ‘games I’ve been playing’. Then I looked at my last ten posts and decided against…
A (Fighting) Game of Thrones
Some, if not all of you are probably watching HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy magnum opus A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones). I, being…
Pot, Kettle, etc
One of the big pieces of news coming out of GDC last week was this comment from Fez developer Phil Fish: But when he asked what the panel thought of…
Send in the clones
There’s a bit of a stink being raised by some mobile/social developers about other developers cloning their games. Some are even going so far as to launch lawsuits against the…
Comparison Theatre: Doing your Source Material Justice
My last comparison theatre entry (and indeed, my last blog entry) was quite some time ago, for which I apologise to the three people who read this blog. And now,…
Making excuses
The ‘big’ release of last month was Duke Nukem Forever, a game that’s been about fourteen years in the making, mainly due to purported incompetence on the part of 3D…