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…
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Games
Computer and board games.
January 2014
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
ReviewBooks
TV Toys by Anthony A. McGoldrick (book review).
When I saw a picture from Anthony A. McGoldrick’s book, ‘TV Toys’, on-line and recognised three of the toys that I own, I…
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…
ReviewScifi
Thunderbirds: 100 F.A.B. Postcards (merchandise review).
About this time of year, you’re no doubt looking around for something a little different to hide away for presents for late December…
October 2013
ReviewBooks
Baneblade (A Warhammer 40000 novel) by Guy Haley (book review).
The Warhammer 40000 universe is a grim unforgiving place where the only certainty is war and death. Humankind is beset on all sides…