
Short Story - The Big Music
Ever wondered what it might be like to be truly, truly, indisputably, deliriously, happy? This tale suggests that music may be the key ......
Ever wondered what it might be like to be truly, truly, indisputably, deliriously, happy? This tale suggests that music may be the key ......
For most of the latter half of the year I was certain that I knew my two favorite games of the year, but a late arrival landed and screwed ...
It's been a good year for movies, partly because I've been going to the cinema a lot more, so have actually seen many of them '...
It's been another great year with the camera in tow...here are some of the highlights of the year through the lens. ...
A very good article over on Eurogamer today about the risk, reward and future ahead of the launch of The Old Republic this week, that wil...
...two very different games to mention today... As a huge fan of games like Exit , this one looks really cool, and has a certain stylis...
...our lead scribe, and generally awesome storyteller Mr Joshua Doetsch, has a new novel out called Strangeness in the Proportion . It'...
This post is an adapted version of the presentation I gave at the Montreal International Game Summit this year. So if you want to learn a l...
... Skyrim might actually be too big for my tastes! It is a fantastically crafted world, and it is a compliment that it is seriously eatin...
I had the chance to wrap up the main story-line on Arkham City this week. So what did I think? Short answer: Great game, worthy sequel, p...
As part of Media Literacy Week I will be taking part in a panel discussion here in Montreal next Tuesday. Organised in conjunction with th...
The Montreal International Game Summit is now done and dusted, and it was once again a really cool event. There were a lot of interesting s...
I'll be speaking at the Montreal International Game Summit tomorrow, you can find all the details of my session here over at the offic...
...it's been a busy month, lots of work, and not so much time to catch up on various forms of entertainment... ...have been able to...
The zombies invaded Montreal today, so what better to do then follow them around with a camera? I swear that if we ever actually do experien...
Simon Ludgate, with whom I had the pleasure of doing a presentation with at the Canadian Games Conference earlier in the year, grabbed me t...
This weekend sees the Extra-Life charity event in full swing, with an intrepid team of our players joining thousands of other gamers around...
...the latest video from the wonderful folks at Extra Credits explores the world of management, and what exactly it means to be a producer...
Yes, you will definitely need to have been an Anarchy Online player to get the reference there, but I just had to go with that title after s...
...it's not for critics... ...Massively's Soapbox post today is on one of the topic's that always fascinates me...how people s...
...sometimes the simplest ideas make for the best projects... Behind The Scenes And 'Back To The Future' With Photograp...
So the big news of the weekend for MMOs was that Star Wars: The Old Republic has an official release date, and will launch over the Christm...
...I was pleasantly surprised by the OnLive service . With such a busy year I hadn't really had the chance to sit down and try it out u...
Today would have been Jim Henson's 75th birthday and today's Google Doodle paid fitting tribute . I can't imagine how drab and...
Think the sequel to the notoriously difficult Demon Souls might be hard enough as it is? Developers From Software came up with an ingenious...
...incredibly busy, but very satisfying. The period after you launch a major update (or in this case an expansion pack to your game) is usu...
Finished the new Deus-Ex from Eidos Montreal today. As someone who was a huge fan of the original game I had high expectations. Even acco...
...cryptic messages on a Wednesday morning? No, that's the title for the lecture session I will be giving at the MIGS 2011 confere...
If I had my way you wouldn't be reading this post, you would be playing through the rather excellent Bastion that has been released re...
This time it is some of the writers who worked on Perplex City coming together to try another project. While not quite a full on ARG it shar...
...or why that quest text you ignore actually matters... ...but maybe not for the reason you think. So what are we talking about this t...
...that despite there being quite a bit of apathy towards it, I really enjoyed the first season of Falling Skies . Most of the characters cl...
...been a little quiet with all the travels this summer, but usual service will be resumed shortly as I catch up on the mails and get round ...
To be honest it was a little tough to be at work this week. With the tragic events unfolding in Norway, somewhere I had come to think of as ...
The convention invariably overflows with photo opportunities, and this year was no different. Walking around the show floor with the camera...