Tag: Final Fantasy 7

  • The Ready Up Podcast – Season 4 Episode 19 – “WE-3”

    All about E3 this week. The team share their hopes and fears and chat about the new comings out of Vegas!

  • Dialogue Tree – Should Fantasy be More Fantastical?

    Dean Bowman (25/03/14 17.58) I used to read a lot of fantasy when I was younger, until, in my pretentious adolescence, I abandoned the genre for real ‘literature’. Looking back on it, I suppose my main problem was that it all started to get so samey, and high-brow Magical Realism (Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami)…

  • The Ready Up Podcast – Season 3 Episode 21 – “The Great Hambino!”

    Fez, Trials and Republique; it’s not magic but it’s VERY good!

  • Goodbye Deponia

    It’s the usual love story: boy meets girl on flying utopian city, girl falls to certain doom, boy spends three games trying to ingratiate himself with her, accidentally saving the world on the side. The boy in question is Rufus, a self professed daredevil (real life self-centred fool), an inhabitant of the colourfully post apocalyptic…

  • Final Fantasy VII appears on Steam out of the blue

    Apparently not wanting to make a fuss Final Fantasy 7 has snuck onto the PC gaming download buffet that is Steam without a word to anyone. Perhaps Valve and Square Enix have a terrible fear of making lots of money. We, the wandering eye of Ready-Up, only found out when we booted up Steam this…

  • At the next Chocobo, turn left!

    One of the many side effects that go along with my gaming habit (among others) is my love of collectibles. If money was no object my inner geek would quite happily spend its days in Forbidden Planet buying figurines, comics and anything with ‘Limited Edition’ stamped on it. Although I have managed to curb my…