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My Top 10 Games of 2012 25 Dec 2012 | 02:12 am
I’ve already handed out a number of awards, but here are my top ten games of the year. There are plenty that just missed out: XCOM and NintendoLand might, on another day, have made it. XCOM is wonderf...
2012: My year in games – part two 21 Dec 2012 | 06:53 pm
Hello! You’ll no doubt be glad to hear that this has a much shorter preamble than yesterday’s part one, as I conclude my daft little awards bit ahead of my Top Five Games of 2012 piece, which will app...
2012: My year in games – part one 20 Dec 2012 | 11:09 pm
I said on Twitter that 2012 wasn’t a vintage year for the medium – and what a chin-stroking dolt I sound for saying that – but as I started sifting through my ‘writing work completed’ folder on my P...
Jinx 3 Jan 2011 | 12:40 pm
I really should keep my stupid mouth shut. Today, I decided I was feeling slightly better than I have been recently, and made the fatal error of telling my wife so. Literally seconds later, I was blo...
One A Day 2011 #1: Start as you mean to go on… 2 Jan 2011 | 08:15 am
Happy New Year! Every new January 1st feels like an opportunity. A chance to do things differently. New year, new attitude. New lifestyle. New job. New blog. Or old blog revisited, anyway. I’m hopin...
Problems… 27 Aug 2010 | 02:59 am
It’s with a heavy heart that I have to announce that I’ll no longer be doing #oneaday. There are a number of reasons for this, chief among them being that I have a few problems in my life that I need ...
Five years ago… 25 Aug 2010 | 07:09 am
Before I started writing professionally I created a videogame website called Press Start Online. I wrote quite a lot of the site’s content with the help of a number of other writers, several of whom h...
One A Day Picks of the Week – 16th to 22nd August 24 Aug 2010 | 08:59 am
Writing one blog entry per day for 365 days might sound simple enough on paper, but in reality it’s incredibly difficult to maintain for such a long time. There are some days when life just gets in th...
Move: Bridging the casual/hardcore divide 23 Aug 2010 | 08:56 am
There seems to be a vocal minority on gaming forums and comments threads that sees motion controls as the enemy of gaming. That standing up and waving your arms about is no way to have fun, and that t...
Fifteen years 22 Aug 2010 | 07:07 am
Fifteen years ago today, my wife asked me out. That we’re still together is a fact which continues to astound me. At the age of 17, I was beginning to despair of ever finding someone to love. I’d had...
