About the author...
Editor of GamingLives
Immersed in gaming from an early age, thanks to a couple of handed down Spectrums and a copy of 'Booty', I spent much of my early gaming days furtively ripping maps and columns from my dad's Your Sinclair and Crash magazines and building what is now a nostalgic portfolio of fave games which include Chuckie Egg and Skool Daze.
Moving on to Amigas, interspersed with a myriad of consoles, magazines, and gaming tat ensured that my gaming interests remained one of the few time burning constants and guaranteed that the storage space in any home I now attempt to move into is immediately requisitioned.
Nowadays, surrounded by monolithic bookcases of games, magazines, and tat, the Xbox360 and PC demand my attention, striving to drive back the gaming apathy which crept into my life one dark day. With a lingering fondness for text adventures, school thuggery, and fun, I have developed mixed modern tastes which is only ever a good thing I suppose.
However, in deference to those heady text adventure days, I still remain a map-making fetishist and for a small fee will sneak behind the bikesheds and show you my Lords of Time maps.
Below is a list of all published articles, with the most recent displayed first
- Flagging Heart
- Where Have All the Hours Gone?
- I Heart... Overlord
- Life Goes On: Done to Death - Review
- Welcome to Spoilerville, Please Despise Your Stay
- Mirror's Edge Catalyst: Beta Impressions
- LEGO Marvel's Avengers - Review
- Hitman PS4 Beta Impressions
- Finish Them!
- Black Sails – The Ghost Ship - Review
- Best of 2015: End of the World
- Best of 2015: A Game of Two Halves
- Best of 2015: Judged Dread
- Best of 2015: St. Jude’s Management Club
- Replay: Pharaoh
- A Game of Two Halves
- One Upon Light - Review
- Judged Dread
- LEGO Jurassic World - Review
- I Am Bread - Review
- St. Jude’s Management Club
- End of the World
- Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries - Preview
- Best of 2014 - Controller Issues
- Best of 2014 - Flat Out Of Steam
- Best of 2014 - A Letter From Skingrad
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Review
- Just Another Brick In the Fall
- Flat Out Of Steam
- Tropico 5 - Review
- LEGO The Hobbit - Review
- Life Goes On - Preview
- Day One Woes
- Double Dipping
- Does It Matter If You Play Them?
- A Letter From Skingrad
- Controller Issues
- Best of 2013: The Game That Ate Christmas
- Best of 2013: Much Obliged
- Best of 2013: I Will Survive: Lost In Blue
- Much Obliged
- I Will Survive: Lost In Blue
- The Sims 3 Island Paradise - Preview
- KickPicks #4
- The Sims 3 University Life - Review
- KickPicks #3
- The Game That Ate Christmas
- Best of 2012 - Not The E3 Diary Part 1
- Best of 2012 - Box Shaped Heart
- Omerta: City of Gangsters - Hands-On Preview
- Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes - Review
- Naughty Bear: Panic In Paradise - Review
- A Game Of Dwarves - Hands-On Preview
- The Testament of Sherlock Holmes - Review
- KickPicks #2
- The Sims 3: Supernatural - Preview
- Deponia - Review
- Not The E3 Diary - Part 2
- Not The E3 Diary - Part 1
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun And PC Gaming - Interview With John Walker
- Box Shaped Heart
- KickPicks - An Introduction
- The Lost Chronicles of Zerzura - Preview
- Jewel Master: Cradle of Persia - Review
- The Great GL 2012 Adventure Roundup
- Deponia - Preview
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare - Review
- Best of 2011 - Generation Game
- Xmas Embargo
- Generation Game
- King Arthur II - Preview
- Jagged Alliance: Back In Action - E3 Preview
- The Witcher 2 (console) - E3 Preview
- Dead Island - E3 Preview
- Hitman Absolution - E3 Preview
- Tomb Raider - E3 Preview
- BioShock Infinite - E3 Preview
- It Won't Stop a Shotgun - The Journey Home
- American Bacon
- Game On: Veni Vici VE3
- Cakes, Trucks and 3D - Day 3 pt2
- A Kinected Future, No Thanks. Day 3 - Pt1
- Bag and Boardwalks - Day 2
- From Hell's Heart, I Stab At Thee
- Alter Ego - Review
- Black Mirror 3 - Review
- A Curious Alchemy
- Mortal Kombat Preview
- Swarm - Review and Interview
- Black Mirror 3 Preview
- EDF: Insect Armageddon Preview and Interview
- Jurassic Park: The Game - Preview and Interview
- Gray Matter - Review
- The Great GL 2011 Adventure Roundup
- Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - Review
- Worms Reloaded - Review
- Dungeons - Preview
- Best of 2010 - Schrodinger's Clicker
- Best of 2010 - Flagging Energy
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Interview
- The Sims 3: Late Night - Review
- The Sims 3 (Console) - Review
- A Look At Barnacle Bay
- Anti Freeze
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Review
- I Heart...Dungeon Keeper
- Schrodinger's Clicker: Deciphering Alan Wake
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - Review
- Sequel Soup
- Alan Wake - Review
- Black Mirror II - Review
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - Preview
- Naughty Bear - Preview
- Desert Island Discs, Disks, Carts and Cassettes
- It's Not me...It's You.
- Two Out of Three
- Sims 3: Ambitions - Revealed
- Fairytale Fights - Fresh Look Review
- Gaming Anorexia
- Micro Mart
- Control Issues
- Fairytale Fights - Review
- Flagging Energy