Feelin Strangely Fine

Twelve Months in Black & White

Earlier this month a friend and photographer, Nico Nickelsen , challenged some of us on Facebook to post more black and white photographs, ...

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Final day

Saving the best for last, this entry is all about my game of the year. I had high hopes for a certain strategy game that was to arrive ...

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 23

Today we have my three favorite films of the year. All very different movies, all brilliant for different reasons. First up is the fa...

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 22

Today we take a sweep of all the games I enjoyed on mobile platforms this year. Given I do the majority of my gaming on the PC, with a...

Monday, December 22, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 21

I enjoyed a lot of good TV this year. In fact we may appear to be in somewhat of a golden age of science fiction and fantasy storytelling o...

Sunday, December 21, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 20

This week saw The Legend of Korra end its four season run, and by its close it had become one of the best things on TV (or the internet I...

Saturday, December 20, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 19

You could argue that today's entry is not a game, rather a tool that uses some of the mechanics of a game. You wouldn't be far wr...

Friday, December 19, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 18

In the wrong hands, Orphan Black would have been little more than a gimmick show that could easily have been lost in the technology that ...

Thursday, December 18, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 17

Saga is probably my favorite currently running series. It's fantastically divergent science fiction with a heart as big as it's ...

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 16

Today's entry on the list is an indie endeavor that I am sure will find it's way onto many 'best of year' lists purely fo...

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 15

I wrote about the Abyss Odyssey earlier in the year, so it's no surprise that it makes its way here to my list of favorite things th...

Monday, December 15, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 14

Today's favorite thing is a small gem of a game that went a little unnoticed earlier in the year. Child of Light is the product of a ...

Sunday, December 14, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 13

Today's addition to my list of favorite things this year is the prequel chapter (of sorts) to one of my favorite experiences from las...

Saturday, December 13, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 12

Today lines up a trio of science fiction movies, that while not perfect, were films that I thoroughly enjoyed, and feel that were either mi...

Friday, December 12, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 11

Today's entry in this exploration of everything I liked this year finds it way to the sequel to one of the best games of the last few...

Thursday, December 11, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 10

Today we have a spiritual successor to what was one of my favorite series of the last decade. The Wicked + The Divine is one of the best...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 9

Smart, long form TV, used to be something that network television avoided with a fear bordering on the obsessive, and HBO and the other c...

Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 8

This one is another throwback, a remaster of sorts of one of my favorite old games. The original Abe's Oddysee was one of the most c...

Monday, December 08, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 7

There is a game like this every year for me. One that I really enjoy and then simply don't have the time to dive deep enough into, fu...

Sunday, December 07, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 6

This is the second successful Kickstarter campaign on this list, and I have to admit to a soft spot for the crowd sourcing platform. For ...

Saturday, December 06, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 5

Today isn't so much about one particular game as it is the output of a single studio. Throughout this year I've been enjoying s...

Friday, December 05, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 4

Warren Ellis is one of my favorite comic book creators. From Transmetropolitan , Planetary , and Global Frequency through to some of his...

Thursday, December 04, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 3

Today we're back to games, and a return to one of the first science fiction universes that captured me as a teenager. Shadowrun Retur...

Wednesday, December 03, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 2

Today I'm grouping two brilliant but flawed movies together as a single entry. These ones represent two very different forms of science...

Tuesday, December 02, 2014 Reply

My Favorite things in 2014 - Day 1

I can't quite believe that it's the first of December already. As the year draws to an end it's naturally the time of year that...

Monday, December 01, 2014 Reply

Charge!

This weekend I went back and finished up a project that had been sitting on the 'to-do' list for quite a few months. The Troll...

Sunday, November 30, 2014 Reply

To Infinity and beyond ...

I finally decided to take the plunge with a new tabletop game. Now that I have a pretty well filled out army in both Warmachine and Horde...

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Reply