
My Favourite TV Series of 2022: Andor – Season 1
Though this article is supposed to be about Andor and why it’s my personal choice for TV series of the year, I thought it was really important to give some […]
Video Game, Board Game, Comic Book & Movie Reviews – and more!
Though this article is supposed to be about Andor and why it’s my personal choice for TV series of the year, I thought it was really important to give some […]
I grew up devouring comics and playing game books – Fighting Fantasy mostly, but I wasn’t too fussy; I’d read and play pretty much any interactive fiction I could get […]
UbiSoft’s open world formula – with the most familiar and overused elements being towers revealing environments strewn with various collectables, represented by bewildering arrays of icons on map screens – […]
The Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing (or M.O.D.O.K. to his friends, family and enemies) was always one of the more far out bad guys in Marvel’s comic book universe. […]
We all know the stories of the Enterprise (in its various guises, eras and even timelines), but we rarely get a glimpse at the lesser vessels that aren’t boldly going […]
I don’t know what magic they have in the water over at AWA/Upshot Towers, but they genuinely can seem to do no wrong with their comics. Each one I’ve read […]
Though to outsiders it may seem as if Jennifer Ryan has the perfect life, the stress of trying to balance a demanding career with being present for her husband and […]
There’s no getting around it – Safety First is a bizarre, gross and hilarious physics-based puzzler. Despite its crude appearance – both in terms of simplicity and subject matter – […]
Available on itch.io Is it ok to post a review if you’ve played a game for ages and still don’t know what you’re doing? Is it ok to write a review if you’ve spent a decent amount of time on a game and you don’t even know what’s going on? I pondered these questions – and others – after sinking […]
Ultimate Games seem to be trying to corner the market in bizarre, controversial ‘Simulator’ games. Despite the Polish indie making their name with a straightforward and highly regarded sim game – Ultimate Fishing Simulator – they’ve released other sims, some more straight faced than others, but perhaps the most oddball (not to mention the most deliberately controversial) sim they’ve been […]
Available now on Steam – £7.99 The opening disclaimer of Wanking Simulator insists that, by proceeding beyond that point, you cannot take offence at any of the LGBTQ references included in the game. After all, it states, it’s just a joke. The problem is, it’s hard to tell what the joke actually is. Or why there’s any need to direct […]
I almost can’t believe that I’m writing about this again. The first time I wrote about this was last year, early on in my blogging days – and quickly became my most viewed post, holding that record for a number of months. Yet here we are. 2020 has arrived and Wanking Simulator is coming. That’s probably a poor choice of […]
Version Played: Xbox 360Current CEX Price: £2.50 Note: This, my tenth ‘It Came From The Bargain Bin’ article, is a special one. I’m not sure I’ve suffered for my art […]