Do You Dream In Colour?

Has a lifetime of gaming fucked my eyes or has there been a distinct lack of colour in the gaming world for a while now? I was raised by a sentient ZX Spectrum that had a display capability of eight colours (fifteen if you include…

Don’t Mock My Methods

The new wave of gaming related exercise regimes is getting a lot of stick, and I don’t like it. I’m by no means a healthy person. I don’t jog, I don’t play sport on the weekend, and any form of sporting equipment dates back to…

Me, Myself, and I: The Single Player’s Lament

It’s not that I don’t like Multiplayer. Multiplayer fans, its not that I don’t like you… well some of you. The constant encroachment of multiplayer into my gaming life is getting to the point where it’s putting me off buying some games. Almost any game…

Generation Game

As time and gaming progress, it can be easy to feel left behind, for that ‘Werther’s Original’ generation thing to become less of a joke and more of a sobering reality.  Teens and even gamers in their early twenties have grown up without some of…

Gaming: The Doorway to a New Age

Written by Peter Doveston

The world is one of pure and stark reality. Inescapable pains, unavoidable troubles. It is not a place where we necessarily want to be ourselves. In response to this fact, man created an anaesthetic to life in the forms of entertainment,…

Deus Ex: Defining a Genre

This year sees the release of one of the most anticipated and, in some ways, unexpected prequels in the gaming world. On August 26th, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be released, carrying with it a weight of expectation so heavy that no amount of muscle…

Blizzard Press Presentation: World of Warcraft

It’s hard to imagine that less than a year on it since its release, Cataclysm is about to receive its last big content patch, thus signalling the downward spiral toward its untimely end before a new expansion raises from the Deathwing charred ashes and the…