Tell me your first memory of isometric games, was it the Baldurs Gate games?  Was it the Desert Strike series? How about the excellent Head over Heels from way back in the day, or even further back with Knight Lore?  Can you even remember the first time you played a game that was viewed in [...]

I’ve owned Unlimited Saga for about seven years. I remember getting it in a swanky cardboard sleeve that folded out like a posh DVD boxset. It comprised of one disc and an instruction book thicker than the norm, which detailed the ins-and-outs of the game in English and gave you instructions on how to turn your [...]

For a recreational pursuit, gaming can get rather boring. I traded my social life for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion when it was released, choosing to spend every minute of my free time in the land of Tamriel, a place where my sword was the law and the law was enforced by a politically confused [...]

Hello players, how are you? Fantastic. Does your game look like mine? No? Look at your game, now back to mine, now back at your game, now back to mine.
Sadly your game isn’t mine, but it could be if you stopped playing Final Fantasy XIII and started playing Final Fantasy VII.
Do you want the smell [...]

As I write this, I’m on holiday in America spending some time with my best friend, Kat. We’d be doing the requisite sight-seeing, but there’s not much to see in El Paso, Texas; it’s effectively a desert. Predictably, this has led to us playing video games. Correction: this has led to Kat failing at Super [...]

I recently got this lovely mug from the equally lovely people at Blitz Games. It doesn’t look like much here, just quietly stating the fact that Blitz Games Studios has been ticking along nicely for the last twenty years. When you go and make a brew, however, as I am prone to do on many [...]

The World Cosplay Summit is a government-sponsored event held each year in Nagoya, Japan that has been steadily increasing in popularity from year to year. The focus of the Summit, the World Cosplay Championship, has preliminary rounds in 15 countries that lead up to the final 15 entries (Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, [...]

‘Death by white picket fence’. Probably not the most glamorous epitaph to grace the digital graveyard of gaming protagonists. But hey, when the sky uncorks and the heavens rain cultural detritus, from laundromat signage to famous paintings, you don’t really get to choose what random household object signs your death warrant.
This is, ostensibly, the ‘plot’ [...]

Well hello there. My name is Mark and apparently ‘direct current’ isn’t interesting enough to write a blog about so I wrote about another kind of DC.
I’m going to be blunt and just come right out with it: I have always felt that Marvel do it so much better than DC. I can’t quite put [...]

A good story in a game can contribute greatly towards the immersion factor; the importance of a game’s story was explored some time ago on Ready Up. But what happens when the story comes to an end? Does that mean you’re no longer really involved or interested in it? Well, in my case, yes.
I recently [...]