ReviewComputers
Aliens: Fireteam (game review).
Is Aliens: Fireteam the glorious bug-hunting PC game we should have got a few decades ago? Just watch the spalsh of acid, my…
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Games
Computer and board games.
July 2021
March 2021
ReviewFantasy
Beowulf: Age Of Heroes by Jon Hodgson, David Rea and Jacob Rodgers (RPG review).
‘Beowulf: Age Of Heroes’ is an expansion to ‘Dungeons And Dragons 5e’ and so it assumes you have access to the basic Player’s…
ReviewBooks
Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities by Konstantinos Dimopoulos (book review).
Subtitled ‘An Atlas And Exploration Of Video Game Cities’, ‘Virtual Cities’ is a chunky hardback explores 45 iconic or just plain interesting cities…
January 2021
ReviewGames
Cyberpunk 2077 – Original Score by P.T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan and Marcin Przybylowicz (computer game soundtrack review).
This is a review of ‘Cyberpunk 2077’s soundtrack, not the licensed songs that you can listen to on the game’s radio and which…
September 2019
ReviewFantasy
Assassin’s Creed #001 (comic-book review).
From its origins as a video game, the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ franchise has successfully been spun out into a number of different media, including…
August 2019
ReviewBooks
Ninja Get Good: My Ultimate Guide To Gaming by Tyler Blevins (book review).
There seems to be a growing abundance of ‘how to-’ gaming books coming out now. When you consider commissioning books can take at…
ReviewBooks
How To Be A Pro Gamer by Jon Hambin (book review).
The process of picking out books to review for me often depends on whether I think they will be of interest to you,…
ReviewBooks
The 100 Greatest Retro Videogames (book review)
I wasn’t quite sure how far back this new Carlton Book, ‘The 100 Greatest Retro Videogames’ or how the selection was made or…
August 2018
ReviewBooks
Gamer Nation by Eric Geissinger (book review).
With a title like ‘Gamer Nation’, author Eric Geissinger is more or less giving away the subject matter. The sub-title, ‘The Rise Of…
ReviewBooks
Degenesis: Black Atlantic by Marko Djurdjevic (book review).
‘Degenesis: Black Atlantic’. What we have here is part-book, part-game whicah when combined result in a work of art that would grace a…
August 2017
ReviewBooks
TheColor Of Pixar by Tia Kratter (book review)
I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting when I spotted ‘The Color Of Pixar’ by Tia Kratter in the advance list from…
September 2016
ReviewGames
Lego Star Wars – The Force Awakens (PS4 Review).
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, someone thought it would be a great idea to take Lego characters and…