Late To The Party: Beyond Good & Evil
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Posted in Elsewhere, Feature, Late To The Party | No Comments »Late to the Party is a regular column in which I play a retro title for the first time to see how well it compares with the games of today. With the tragic demise of B4HD, the feature has moved ...
Late To The Party: Sonic the Hedgehog
Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Elsewhere, Feature, Late To The Party | No Comments »Late To The Party is a regular column in which I play a retro title for the first time to see how well it compares with the games of today. This edition was published at B4HD. Obviously, I’m not such ...
Late To The Party: Chrono Trigger
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Posted in Elsewhere, Feature, Late To The Party | No Comments »My second Late To The Party feature, in which I play an old game for the first time to see how well it stands up to today's standards. As seen on B4HD. I’ve pretty much raised myself on Western RPGs. In ...
[Elsewhere] Late To The Party: Super Mario World
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in Elsewhere, Feature, Late To The Party | No Comments »As part of my ongoing efforts to a) train myself to have a little self-discipline, b) grow my writing skills and c) get my name out there on different sites, I have started writing a new fortnightly column for the ...
Postcards from… Alchera
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 Posted in Postcards from... | 2 Comments »Spoiler Alert: I have become well and truly immersed in the Mass Effect universe once more, so it should be little surprise that BioWare's space opera serves as the inspiration for my latest Postcards from.... Given that the key selling ...
Commuter Games: Scribblenauts
Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Commuter Games | No Comments »Format: DS / Developer: 5th Cell / Publisher: Warner BrosPick up and play? Yes Definitely. A new puzzle or action challenge is never more than a few taps away as soon as Scribblenauts' title screen loads up. In fact, the game ...
Commuter Games: Mario Slam Basketball
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Commuter Games | 4 Comments »What’s this? An out-of-the-blue edition of Commuter Games? Well, why not? It’s a miniscule step to putting them up regularly. Only a quick one, mind you…Format: DS / Developer: Square Enix / Publisher: NintendoPick up and play? Yep Like many of ...
Postcards from…Pacific City
Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Posted in Postcards from... | 2 Comments »Agent, Pacific City [Crackdown] I ain’t no rookie. I don’t need no pardner. I could wipe out da scumbags dat tink dey run dis city all by myself. With my eyes closed. And my arms handcuffed behind my back. And my ...
Hyrule’s Worst Security Systems
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Feature | No Comments »Bear with me, I need to give a little context first. I recently received an email informing me that Yahoo’s Geocities site-hosting service is to be permanently shut down soon. This confused me initially, but then I remembered I do actually ...
Postcards from… Liberty City
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Posted in Postcards from... | No Comments »(image by Patrick Brown)Huang Lee, Liberty City [Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars] Sometimes, I hate this city so much it makes me laugh. To think I left China, my family, my more than comfortable lifestyle at home for this shithole. Ever ...
