A Curious Alchemy

Among the embers of youth, a few truths, passions, nuggets of experience and certain unassailable realisations can be plucked out and carried forward.  While I’m not yet ready to kick out my fire completely and move into a hollowed out Werther’s Original, I have to…

LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean Preview

What do you get when you combine a celebrated childhood toy with a Disney blockbuster? No, not “The Lion Ker-Plunk-ing”, although that should definitely be patented as soon as possible… what you get is LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and I, for one, was intrigued…

I Heart Second Sight…

When Free Radical Design closed their doors, it was one of the first major gaming casualties of the recession. Created by former members of Rare, and taking their experiences from Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark, Free Radical made their name from the Timesplitters franchise. The…

Evolving Character Creation

Written by Mik Furie

Do you want to know a geeky little secret that I swore to carry to the grave, but which I’ve slowly come to terms with as I realised we geeks now rule the world? I have a memory from…

From Tiny Acorns

There are those who would have us believe that the minute atmospheric change caused by a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could have somehow been responsible for a tornado in Texas, but this is something that I’ve never personally subscribed to. While I find…

Out Of Reach

So, I quite enjoy a bit of FPS… as I’ve mentioned before, one of my long term favourite games has been Counter Strike: Source because of its fast paced action and the fact that you’re playing against real people rather than bots or AI. Now,…

A Non-Controversial Look At Controversy

Controversy is one of those things that make the world go around; it sells newspapers when a politician says something about immigration and everyone wonders if he’s being just a little bit racist. It sells magazines when a “celeb” adopts a child from a foreign…