I Heart… Brutal Legend

Dear Tim Schafer,
Please have my babies… hold on, let me explain.  As it stands, I’m a big fan of your work. The Monkey Island series is not only tops, but it’s one of my favourite series of all time, which is a big…

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…

Kotick Hits Out At EA, Schafer, And More

Well, it seems that gaming’s favourite hate-figure, Bobby Kotick is on a roll, with his interview in this month’s Edge magazine giving him a chance to sound off against a roster of targets.  According to Kotick, Activision’s greatest rivals, EA, are ‘struggling’.  “Great people don’t…

Gaming Guilty Pleasures

We’ve all done it. The temptation’s gotten the best of us.  Our hearts are racing, minds on fire, praying you’re not caught, hoping no-one comes into the room, because if they do, you’re caught sweating, panting heavily, clutching the controller then turning away quickly and…

Schafer Brands Kotick ‘A Dick’

As anyone who enjoys watching DVD commentaries and behind the scenes interviews knows, there is nothing more eye rolling than the ‘love-ins’ that get paraded in front of cameras…if you believe that the cast all loved one another and thought that the director was a…

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,…