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Portal 2: Single Player

As a casual, female, would-rather-be-outdoors gamer, I suppose I represent a portion of the market that games companies really need to get their heads around, if they are going to sell more titles outside of the (admittedly...

Duke Nukem Forever

While I'm essentially an unemployed scummer living in the magical land of Oz, Skels made me promise to knock out a review or few to pay the rent, so to speak. I guess it beats hoiking my warez on street corners, especially as...

One Day

“It’s a book about a relationship. “ I’ll be honest, being a keen science-fiction/fantasy reader, it’s very rare that any modern fiction which deals with love, or affection makes my ‘need to read’ list. However, when the...

The Sims Medieval

I was a fairly avid fan of the original Sims game. Between when the game originally came out, and losing my activation code when I moved to Australia, I probably racked up more hours building killer houses and mistreating my...

Other Stuff

I bought an iPad 2

I didn’t need one. Shamefully I have a perfectly functional ASUS “gaming” netbook, which has served me very well as a portable device. I also have a smartphone, so I can download as many free apps as I feel I need to, and play Angry Birds if ever the desire arises.

I was just feeling left out, so I bought one. Call me Ms Moneybags.

I have to say, I do like it a lot. I can just get home from work, flop on the sofa in front of the telly, and check all those pesky internet things that...

Street Fighter: Unrequited Glove

Perhaps it's not that usual to start any sort of article with a comment directly lifted from a gaming forum, but take a look at this if you would:

"The Dan off was great, I particularly liked the Ultra 2 on focus crumple going over you only to see your Ultra 1 fail to catch up with my bouncing away body!"

That, my friends, is Street Fighter language. On gaming forums throughout the interweb, folks regularly pop into Street Fighter threads and converse with each other in this strange,...

All by myself...

Whilst lounging on my living room sofa the other night, it occurred to me that we've really got it easy nowadays when it comes to social interaction. I hate to wheel out the classic 'when I was young' line (mainly as it saddens me that I am now old enough to do so without it seeming incongruous), but think about it for a second.

When we were kids, if we wanted to talk to a friend we had two options: a phone call, or a meeting at the local sweet shop to buy comics, cans of cola and those sour...