ReviewBooks
Powering Up: Are Computer Games Changing Our Lives by Rebecca Mileham (book review).
If after you turn your computer on, the first thing you do is play a game of FreeCell or Spider Solitaire like I…
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Games
Computer and board games.
February 2014
ReviewScifi
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars by Keith R. A. DeCandido (game tie-in book review).
‘Command And Conquer: Tiberium Wars’ is the official novel of the popular real time computer strategy game of the same name. Having played…
NewsGames
Galactic Starfighter… I’m Luke, fly me.
LucasArts has just announced their new free-to-play Star Wars The Old Republic expansion, called Galactic Starfighter. Early access was previously granted to subscribers,…
January 2014
ReviewGames
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game (minatures game review).
‘Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game’, published by the prodigious Fantasy Flight Games, is essentially a space dogfight simulation game that is played out…
ReviewGames
Spellforce 2: Demons Of The Past (computer game review).
This is the stand-alone conclusion to the popular ‘Spellforce’ game series. You are an Elder of the Shaikan, a mighty warrior whose destiny…
ReviewScifi
Eve: The Empyrean Age by Tony Gonzales (book review).
This is a story set in the enormous on-line game universe of ‘EVE-Online’. It tells the story of Falek Grange, a former leader…
ReviewComics
Mass Effect: Foundation #6 by Mac Walters (Writer) and Matthew Clark (Artist) (comicbook review).
‘Mass Effect: Foundation’ is a series of thirteen comics that explore the back stories of the companions encountered by Commander Shepard, the hero…
December 2013
ReviewBooks
Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka (book review).
‘Initial Vector’ is the follow on story to the Xbox game ‘Perfect Dark Zero’. This was one of the initial games at…
ReviewGames
Infiltration (board game: review).
Set in Fantasy Flight Games’ Android universe, home to the excellent ‘Android: Netrunner’ card game and the godawful timesink that is the original…
ReviewFantasy
Baldur’s Gate 2 – Enhanced Edition (computer game review).
‘Baldur’s Gate’ and ‘Baldur’s Gate 2’ are huge and hugely influential games, pulling off the rare trick of also being very good to…
November 2013
ReviewComics
Mass Effect: Foundation #5 by Mac Walters and Matthew Clark (comic review).
Miranda recruits Jacob to Cerberus by offering him a mission he can’t refuse: collecting Shepard’s body from the edge of the galaxy. They…
ReviewFantasy
Return To Quag Keep by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe (book review).
The 2006 novel ‘Return To Quag Keep’ by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe is a sequel to Andre Norton’s novel, ‘Quag Keep’. In…