Ready Up

Author: Emily

  • Fission Mailed

    I am happy. Not in the hyperactive, leaping around throwing petals in my wake happy, happy as in content in my mind – yet still struggling to roll out of bed in the morning and shiver next to a little electric heater while I get ready for work. I’m exhausted and I have back pain…

  • DanceStar Party

    Dance games have only been a recent investment for me. I’m a lover of video games, but I’m shy about standing up and jumping around in order to play them, because I’m terrible at dancing and I feel like an absolute plum. I have found that space is an important issue for dancing games. There’s…

  • Mock the Gamer

    See what I did with the title there? I called this “Mock the Gamer”, like “Mock the Week”, but I changed one of the words because I’m imaginative and hilarious. I’m angry at gamers at the moment, but I decided to turn that frown upsidedown, open it up a bit and go “ha ha ha”…

  • Claptrap’s Crap Trap

    I’ve got a thing for Borderlands, despite its flaws, this is a game that still pulls me back to Pandora today (granted there were other factors – waiting for a plumber to fix the shower that broke after waiting for someone to fix the boiler that broke, I had to find something to do while…

  • I Tried to Play Amnesia

    I am wimp king, king of wimps, and I’m incredibly bad at horror games. Not just horror games – any games that leave me in the dark, where things jump out, where I die suddenly, where noises are sudden, where music is creepy, where things kill me, where I have no weapons… all of these…

  • Not Just a Gamer

    I’m sure I’m adding fuel to a fire that isn’t worth fussing over. In fact I’m also quite sure that when Alyssa Bereznak decided to tell Gizmodo, a gadget-guide web site, about her apparently disastrous date with a Magic: The Gathering champion, it was her intention to antagonise and provoke a response. I feel reluctant in…

  • Driver: San Francisco

    I’ll admit to you now, as I did to Ubisoft Reflections on July 26th, at the time of visiting I knew embarrasingly little about the studio I was about to enter, the game I was about to play, and its predecessors – I have spent the last week or so sitting in a new apartment…

  • The Arduous Quest

    Apparently three of the most stressful things in life are looking for a job, moving house, and having a baby. It is a good job I’m not having a baby raised on a diet of Relentless and pizza, while looking for a job, while looking for a house, because I would have probably died by…

  • The Uncooperative Gamer

    When I play a video game with friends, I want to help. If I’m on a team, I want to contribute. If someone is injured, I want to save them. If someone is shooting, I want to lend them bullets in the same general direction. However, sometimes this yearning to help doesn’t fully translate. I…

  • Age of Relaxation

    March 1st, 2pm. I have awoken. I lean out of bed and switch the nearest monitor on. Last time I looked, it was 5am and I’d just finished redoing the setup for my animation sequence because the usual file for my animation work has a slightly warped texture that I cannot fix without re-unwrapping my…