Thursday, December 15, 2016

If You're Worried You Won't Ever Find Great Love, sorry not sorry, You Probably Will

You might be trying to get over someone right now, or maybe you're waiting for the first someone, or maybe you're waiting for the first someone in a while. When I'm in that headspace, I always think of...

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Letter to Myself; subtitled 2016

"So if you got a flame that's blazing hot within, take a deep breath and feed it oxygen." ~ Watsky, Never Let It Die Every year I write a letter to myself to reflect my own progress as a person and to sort of have an army of past versions of myself egging me on to continue with life and not walk into...

Friday, December 9, 2016

A Rumination on Sonic Heroes; It's Kind of Underrated.

Not often does a game come by that makes you stop, pause and think, “Huh, you know what, that’s actually a pretty clever.” And Sonic Heroes is somehow, against all the odds, one of those games. Sonic...

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Saints Row, and how to properly manage spectacle creep

"It was too crazy for Saint's Row." As I neared the completion of the Enter The Dominatrix DLC, after having my mind fucked sideways in a dirty alley without a condom, I had an odd thought; Somehow, for four (and a half) games, Saints Row has managed to constantly churn out these batshit crazy third...

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Life Is Strange is everything wrong with the modern adventure game; but I still recommend you play it

"Rachael's Bracelet". This phrase will probably trigger me for the next seven years. There's a point in Life Is Strange where one of your four dialogue options is "Rachael's Bracelet", whilst speaking...

Monday, November 14, 2016

Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Gamification Essay I Never Got To Write

Okay, a little background. In one of my university modules I was tasked with writing an essay. At the time I frowned upon the idiots around me who couldn't tell gamification from Grand Theft Auto if one...