A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Reviews
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[by Sir Gaulian] The 3DS is one of the dustiest consoles I own. It sits, usually idle, on my bed side table collecting a whole lot of dust, and really only being opened to check what small additions have been made to the e-Store in the latest update. Enough with the negativity. I am going to…
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I think the title of this post pretty much sums it all up. If you’ve played Shadow of the Colossus, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, what the hell are you playing at? BUY THIS GAME NOW. (Or even better, get the shiny new HD remake for the PS3.) While you’re…
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Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command was an isometric squad turn-based strategy game developed by RedLynx and published by THQ for the Playstation Portable and the Nintendo DS systems. In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Ultra Marines are under no delusion that they are single-handidly saving the universe from the scourge of Chaos. Everyone is expendible, and…
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I bought this game YEARS ago. Seriously, I think it was in about 2008, or maybe even 2007, which means it’s taken me nearly four years to get round to finishing it. Yowch. The trouble is, I just don’t have the time to spend on playing games that I used to – whereas at university…
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[penned by Sir Gaulian] I am not an avid reader but Bret Easton Ellis is one of my favourite authors. His writing is unique, interesting and often confronting in a way that books, let alone television or film, often aren’t. He gets me reading when its the last thing I feel like doing when I…
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Enslaved: Odyssey To The West becomes the second game to fall from The Mantelpiece – at this blistering rate I might even get to the end of my ‘List of Shame’ by Christmas! (Christmas 2015 that is.) Still, if all of the games on the list are as fun as this one, it’s going to…
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I’ll say right off the bat that not a whole lot has changed, functionally at least, from Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 to Pro Evolution Soccer 3D. As a result, what has been said before can be said again – if you liked PES before, you’ll likely enjoy it now. Aside from the addition of the 3D…
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Assassin’s Creed II has the honour of being the first game to be knocked off The Mantelpiece and into the velvet-lined, taffeter-embroidered bin labelled ‘Games That I’ve Completed This Year’. A rather nasty head cold earlier this month meant I was rendered incapacitated and unable to work for two days, but these rather phlegmy days…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 