Board Game Review: Sweet Existence: A Strange Planet Card Game
Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet webcomic has had a meteoric rise to popularity, considering it only launched on Instagram – of all places – in February 2019. It’s not hard […]
Weekly Round-Up
When I first started Mid-Life Gamer Geek back in the now utopian beforetimes of *checks notes* 2019, my intention was to continue writing about gaming; video games, board games and […]
Comic Book Review: Aliens: Defiance
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a lifelong fan of the Alien franchise, even to the point where I genuinely have a soft spot for Alien 3. If only […]
Comic Book Review: Lawless – Book One: Welcome to Badrock
Who would have thought that a more-or-less traditional Western – albeit with minor sci-fi trappings of course – set in the Dredd-verse could be so good? Who knew that the […]
Review: Destroy All Humans! (2020)
When the original Destroy All Humans! was released way back in 2005, it was a real breath of fresh air. It was packed full of humour and endless references to pop culture, as well as real world conspiracy theories and political figures. It even featured actual footage from what was, at one stage, regularly named as the worst film of […]
Review: Gears of War 4
Note: as with my other Gears of War reviews, I’ve not checked out the vast and popular suite of multiplayer options; my thoughts here are based on the campaign alone. As the first post-Epic Games, post-Xbox 360 and post-original trilogy Gears of War entry, Gears of War 4 had an awful lot to prove. Could it work without Cliffy B’s […]
Weekly Round-Up
It’s been a while since I’ve done a round up of articles, but I’ve covered quite a bit of ground this week and even managed to finish off the original Gears of War trilogy too. Thanks COVID-19! Alien Day Last Sunday was Alien Day, it being the date which matches the number designed to the planet under threat in 1986 […]
Alien Day: Game Over Man!
Last year was Alien’s 40th anniversary – and I wrote quite a long piece looking at the first movie and what it meant to me. For Alien Day 2020 this […]
Film Review: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
I’m a big fan of Aardman, though wasn’t a massive fan of their last film – released in 2018 – Early Man (though it did have its moments and the […]
Blazing Chrome
Version Played: Xbox One, via Game Pass (Also available on PS4, Switch and PC) The Contra series was absolutely huge in the 80s and 90s. Across arcade as well as […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 7: Blacksite
Version Played: Xbox 360Current CEX Price: £1 Ostensibly a continuation/spin-off of ancient lightgun game Area 51 – as well as a sort-of continuation of the largely forgotten PS2/Xbox game, also […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 4: Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon
Version Played: Xbox 360 Current CEX Price: £5 Having had a soft spot for the Destroy All Humans franchise since playing the very first game on the original XBox, way […]
Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed – Wii
I’m a massive fan of classic 1950s monster and sci-fi movies. Paranoia abounded in the American B-movie cinema of the 50s – reflecting the post-war, Communism-obsessed times. In the midst […]
