Darran, Stuart and Rick pose with their lovely award

Well this is a pleasant surprise. We’ve only gone and won the UK game’s industry most prestigious award!

For those who don’t know, the GMAs (or Game Media Awards) are given out every year. People within the industry nominate from a whole host of different categories ranging from Best Website to Best Magazine and 150 judges eventually pick the short list … [ Read More... ]

I think the above title does a good job in explaining the thinking behind this post, but just in case it doesn’t: below is a collection of game box art that remind me of album covers. I’ve only discussed three but may add to this pathetic list if any more scream out at me, or if anyone likes to chime in with more suggestions.

Cup Final by Starsailor

I don’t … [ Read More... ]

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... ]