I’m a great advocator of mums, they’re generally awesome most of the time, but today I was reminded of a few instances where mine failed me through her failure to understand just how important videogames were to me growing up, so I felt I’d write a little blog about it. Here are three examples I can remember off hand.
Buying me the game Basildon Bond one Christmas
I don’t recall … [ Read More... ]
This is the Sun Titan. A massive red giant who will create a headache for your opponant.
I’ve been taking a break from conventional computer games recently and hammering the hell out of Magic the Gathering. In particular the latest core set.
At one stage the core set consisted of 100% reprinted cards and was released every other year. As a result it was a great introduction to the excellent … [ Read More... ]
Call it a remake, or a demake, or whatever, but someone on the LucasForums has posted a demo of their SCUMMbased rework of Monkey Island 3. A…… [ Read More... ]
I met up with a friend that I rarely see over the weekend. He’s a graphic designer, lives in London, and is always emailing me interesting stuff he finds on the web.
The reason for us catching up was that it was our friend’s 30th birthday, and to celebrate he had this genius idea of going to a theme park on Saturday. Suffice to say, with every school in … [ Read More... ]