Well, it's getting about that time again. The laptop that three years ago was on top of the game is now starting to show its age, and has proven barely sufficient to the task of running Fallout 4. So I think it's time I upgraded to a new gaming system. Thus, if anyone can offer any recommendations…
So you may have heard that there's a new Fallout 4 due out in November. I'm excited about it, naturally! Anyhoo, there is of course a collector's edition coming out for the game, and this one happens to come with a rather fancy wearable Pip-Boy replica! Now, they recently went on preorder, though g…
Once more, I've come up with a harebrained idea for a video game. I guess my imagination is a fertile ground for them. Anyhoo, Ex Astris Scienta is one of those idle-style games, where you set resources gathering/processing and leave it running while you do other things, interceding occasionally to…
Well, I've finally taken the plunge. I've sent off my first query to a literary agent. With any luck, by the end of the year I'll be well on the way to getting Laszlo Hadron and the Wargod's Tomb published. This is perhaps one of the most intimidating prospects I've ever faced, but lord knows it's…
The first I heard about Mad Max: Fury Road was on Twitter: apparently this film had mens' right activists kicking up a stink about how it was degrading to men or misandrist or somesuch. The general consensus was that a lot of men was simply upset that the film featured strong female characters who…
Y'know what's fun? When I'm playing Elite: Dangerous and make a jump to another star system, only for Windows to decide it needs to restart for an update and minimise the game for a pop-up - pretty much exactly as I drop out of interstellar FTL right in front of the star. So there's me frantically…
Although I'm an atheist, I was raised in a mildly Christian country, so I have a rough familiarity with the basics of the faith's mythology. And, what with it being Easter right now, I've been thinking about the story of the resurrection, and I think I've hit upon a major theological breakthrough.…
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE has passed away aged 66. Even the sad inevitability of his age and the Alzheimer's with which he stubbornly grappled right up until the end hardly dulls the shock of the passing of such a luminary. As an author of his wit and genius, he leaves behind a void in the literary w…
I'm probably not the sort of person to put ideas for video games into practice, let alone into production, but nonetheless I've thought up this little idea, and I thought I might run it up the flagpole and see if anyone tugs its forelock. Anyhoo, Adrift would be a first-person shooter/puzzle/surviv…
When you're trying to build a Vault under your glorious castle in Minecraft, and you're excavating the fourth floor nuclear warhead access corridor, you know what really throws off your count? Falling into an underground lava pit. Whoops.
So recently, thanks to some online reviews of the first few Pokemon movies, I've developed a bit of a hankering to get into the games again, and given that the last (and indeed only) such game I played was Pokemon Blue on the Game Boy, I decided it might be about time I updated my gaming tech and g…
So, apart from periodic fave-bombing, I've rather been neglecting this account, haven't I? Sorry about that, Weasyl. Anyhoo, I might as well try to remember to post here more often. If I do continue to let this account lapse, feel free to administer a swift kick up the backside. For now, I'll just…
Me and puzzle games do not have the happiest relationship imaginable. Perhaps I'm not terribly good at lateral thinking, or perhaps I'm just stupid, but a lot of the time I just find the problems therein needlessly obtuse - not so much an attempt at creating challenging and thought-provoking gamepl…
