Browsing all posts from April, 2012.

MMO Rehab

MMO Rehab

Almost seven months clean, yet the cravings still remain; the cruel temptress still whistles her tune and calls my name softly as it attempts to dig her unrelenting claws into my back.

I enjoy gaming across a wide variety of genres, be it sport, RPG…

Unsolicited Insults

Unsolicited Insults

The more things change, the more they stay the same. When your spare time has involved playing with joysticks for as long as I have, you will have come across unsolicited insults for your hobby at least a few times in your lifetime.

Other kids,…

Control Issues

Control Issues

Control as a gamer is all important – oh, I’m not talking about self-control, whereby you force yourself to bed before your eyes heal shut, no, I mean the actual controls of a game.  With the potential to royally screw things up if not quite…

Stealing Time

Every now and again, a game comes along which will sink its teeth into my very soul, biting down with such ferocity that I spend my working day glancing at the ever-slowing clock on the bottom right of my Windows toolbar wondering why what felt…

New Customs

Although most of my gaming has taken place on either the Amiga or PC, I’ve never actually ventured into the murky forest of modding games or even customisation in any way.  It wasn’t a conscious decision, it was merely how it played out over time…

Where Did All The Nudey Games Go?

Where Did All The Nudey Games Go?

Write for our new site they said, give it a retro edge they said, go on then I said, but now all I can think of is scantily clad ladies, and that kind of fiddly lacy underwear girls used to pretend they were wearing back…