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Author: Celeste

  • Game Changers

    Things have changed in the games industry quite dramatically since its early days, and indeed even over the last few years. As with all entertainment industries, the huge number of titles it releases each year means the games industry is saturated with low quality rubbish. But there are some real gems amongst the dirt –…

  • Overachiever – Living Xtra Large

    Author’s log 225684 Today I ventured beyond the laws of the known universe: everything I understood and believed in disappeared before my very eyes. As I watch my hands typing this log, I find myself wondering if my fingers are really striking each key, whether the letters are really appearing on the screen before me,…

  • Overachiever – Avatar: A Blog Of Epic Proportions

    Ever heard people say that dogs look like their owners? I’ve certainly heard this from a few Labrador, German shepherd and golden retriever owners, but those of the bulldogs, chihuahuas and pugs always seem to be somewhat less vocal about the whole issue. I’ve been playing my Xbox far more than any of my other consoles…

  • Overachiever – How To Get Girls To Sleep With You

    Have you noticed how games have become increasingly risqué?  I’m not even sure risqué is the word anymore. I remember when Lara Croft’s pyramids were at the pinnacle of graphical seduction, but now games are throwing rounded, bouncy, even nippled boobs quite literally in my face. In Tomb Raider’s heyday, seeing a nippled boob in-game…

  • Micro Leap – Episode 2: Leaps and Lizards

    In the last episode: having awoken to a painful reality that didn’t feature his nice warm bed anywhere, Ichabod found himself lying on a debris-strewn desolate bombsite. His newly acquired friend, Allium – a walnut-sized plant-mouse thing – quickly turned Ichabod ‘s attention to the task in hand and, having succeeded in unwittingly killing a nest of…

  • Man’s Best Friend

    Video games make us experience a whole range of emotions: excitement (The Elder Scrolls), satisfaction (The Sims), frustration (Tomb Raider), bewilderment (DoA Xtreme Beach Volleyball), shame (The Force Unleashed). So when a new feeling comes along, it’s pretty big news. I discovered a while ago that games can also offer me comfort, mostly through companionship.…

  • Micro Leap – Episode 1: Jump

    This time it’s a double-length episode! Ichabod could feel something rough and granular. Could it be some kind of sand? Perhaps gravel? Whatever it was, it was definitely something that Ichabod didn’t expect to be feeling; after all, he was tucked up in his bed. Maybe this was the residual sensation of a dream. One…

  • A Clean Hit?

    Back in 2000 I was finishing my A Levels, working in Virgin Megastores, and savouring the flavours of Radiohead’s album, Kid A. I did a lot of things back then, but playing PC games wasn’t really one of them. So I was completely ignorant to the work of genius that was released by IO Interactive that year:…

  • To Save or Not to Save…

    To save. Most definitely to save! To me, this answer is so mind-bogglingly obvious that it seems ludicrous to be writing a blog that address the question. But apparently there is a question, because when my boyfriend is playing a game and I accidentally turn his Xbox off because I think it’s mine, or when…

  • Flying with Dragons (on Skooma)

    I’ve been pondering what to write about in my next blog for a little while. Blogs are essentially retellings of personal experiences, so I’ve had to accept that I really only have one thing to write about this time. Modern Warfare 3 came out this month. Battlefield 3 came out last month. Batman: Arkham City came…