Author: Johnny

  • The Game Mechanic – All Out Of Options

    I’ve been thinking a lot about options. It can be confusing so I’ll be clear: please don’t mistake me for meaning choices.  A choice affects the world and the story, while options have more to do with core gameplay.  I’m talking about the options we’re given within games to tackle situations in whichever way we…

  • Win a Calibur11 Mass Effect 3 Console Vault for your Xbox 360

    The Xbox 360 Slim is a good enough looking console as it is.  It’s small and shapely with a sleek black gloss surface so dark that light cannot escape it. It’s not very personal though, and that’s where Calibur11 come in with their custom console vaults that let you use that console to show your…

  • The Game Mechanic – Trading In The Treads

    Since the beginning of time man has been seeking out and devising new and improved forms of movement.  We went from being earth-dwelling creatures to sailing the seas  – ends of the earth be damned – and then into the sky. Video games have been evolving in how they move as well.  To be more specific…

  • Syndicate

    There have been many different types of simulation games over the years.  Flight sims, life sims, even baby sims, but there’s never been a biologically engineered psychopath sim.  That is, until now. Syndicate fills that niche quite nicely, offering you a world full of psychotic people, and the biggest psycho of them all? You. I was a…

  • Shank 2

    Saturday morning cartoons were great when we were kids weren’t they? But y’know what I always thought was missing from those shows?  Copious amounts of violence. It’s a failing that Klei Entertainment and EA totally tried to make up for with their side-scrolling murder-fest Shank, back in 2010, that was… less than perfect.  But mistakes can be learned from and…

  • Punch You Very Much!

    Have you ever been so angry that you grew four extra arms and then punched someone in the finger so hard that all of those precious new arms fell off? Me neither, but thanks to the magic of video games I now know just how that would feel. I have to admit that when I…