The Richie Report: The Resident Raccoon Syndicate

Hello and welcome to The Richie Report. Over the coming weeks/months/years (delete based on how good the next few paragraphs are), I’ll be spouting off about the state of the gaming nation in a barely comprehensible fashion, like your friendly neighbourhood hobo or christian. Albeit…

Golden Joystick Awards 2010

Friday saw the 28th annual Golden Joystick Awards here in London and, with the prestigious event in its 28th year, this has been its biggest and most celebrated year yet. Pulling in over a million and a half votes from gamers showing their support for…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Beta

In a move which should delight impatient assassins everywhere, Ubisoft have today announced details about the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer beta which opens up on 4th October.  Available exclusively on the PS3 (sorry Boxers) to anyone who has pre-ordered one of the various incarnations of…

Requiescat in Pace – A Look Back at Assassin’s Creed II

I know; Assassin’s Creed II isn’t that old of a game (I first played it at release just last November on the Xbox, and PC gamers will have only now gotten their hands on it at all), so writing a retrospective piece may seem a…

The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything

Apparently women think about shopping every 60 seconds and guys think about sex every 53 seconds.  Personally, I think that’s rubbish but it was in a newspaper and everything,
so with that in mind I thought I’d conduct a very sciencey type…

Gaming Anorexia

Gaming as a hobby is one of those odd things.  While at the same time as being inclusive and something to share, it can, at times, be an oddly isolating and lonely experience.  I’m not talking about those little cliques that you get in multiplayer…

All The Time In The World

Unfortunately, as with most people scurrying around in the rat race, there’s either never enough time or what little time is afforded to us by our hectic lifestyles is undoubtedly squandered or ignored.

I recently made the decision to move to a four day week,…