When I was very young, I loved text adventures. It started off with the Ghost Hunter choose-your-own-adventure by Edward Packard then progressed to games such as Zork. I used to scour our local library for the Usborne type-in books and, even though I never managed to get a single program to run from start to finish on our old Commodore 64, I pored through the … Continue reading Stories Untold and the joy of text
nufafitc has been on the blogging scene for seven years now and so it’s highly likely you’ve already come across his Emotional Multimedia Ride site. This lovely guy has been publishing regular articles since August 2010 and his blog is a ‘coaster ride’ of whatever piques his interest in media and even beyond the small or bigger screen. I think I may have found someone … Continue reading Conversation and critique: CAYNE
As I written before, I’m bad at playing horror games because I’m a bit of a wimp. I’d much rather watch someone handle the controller while my eyes are half-shielded by my hands or a nearby cushion. I really enjoy a spine-tingling storyline and love books by Stephen King or Dean Koontz for example; but when I’m responsible for taking the actions, I fall to … Continue reading EGX 2017: Lake Ridden
I don’t watch an awful lot of television: it’s rare that a show captures my attention enough to make me want to watch it and I’d rather play a video game in my spare time. But every now and again one comes along that changes that and this is exactly what happened when Stranger Things was released on Netflix last summer. My other-half and I … Continue reading Stranger adventures
This year’s Steam summer sale kicked off on 22 June 2017 and ended a couple of weeks ago on 05 July 2017. There’s a while to wait until the next one at the end of October which means we’ve got several months to work our way through the new titles we picked up (or leave them languishing in our backlogs). I bought 13 games myself … Continue reading Resident Evil 7: ‘fleshing’ out a story
As part of the Charming and Open event ran on Adventure Rules at the end of April, I asked writer Ian to tell us about the place from a video game he’d most like to visit and what he’d do when he got there. There are so many great settings in games: the Mushroom Kingdom, Rapture and Mother’s Heart for example, the list is almost … Continue reading The Bunker in real life
