I have been a bit remiss with Games of State of late. My post-graduate course is leaving me with little time for socialising away from books, let alone sitting down to blog regularly. Hopefully 2010 will see my post rate pick up again, but with the taught part of my course not ending until the [...]
There are a lot of annoying aspects to moving. Quite frankly, the entire process seems to be geared to cause maximum stress no matter how you do it. There are a number of much more specific annoyances lurking in the wings however.
Today, I am annoyed because while there is plenty of room for a [...]
Every generation of games has it’s hallmark. The second generation of games systems were characterised by platformers such as Donkey Kong and the Mario games, the fifth generation, which included the PS1, Dreamcast, N64 and Windows 95 PCs saw the rise of first-person shooters, changing the face of gaming. The sixth generation, that is the [...]
I don’t know about you, but I generally love bad guys. I’ve never really worked out why, but I always wanted Darth Vader, Jason Vorhees, Sauron or whoever else to win. Just to see what would happen.
It’s probably why I like being GM so much – I get to play the bad guys and [...]
Don’t panic.
I’m just suffering from that eternal blight of students everywhere, the final dissertation deadline. I will of course be embracing my cultural heritage and spending the next week in a whisky induced trance, enabling me to complete this task to the best of my drunken Scottish ability.
Unfortunately, this does mean I won’t be (and [...]
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