The Good and Bad of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
I’m of two minds about XCOM: Enemy Unknown right now. Firstly: It’s a game that’s really up my street. I can take as much time with it as I want. …
Five Hints to Help You Keep Going in the Face of Perfection
Have you ever started a project based on a clear-cut, well-defned goal, only to have that goal begin to mock you as you toiled away, despairing of ever reaching it? …
Painting Miniatures: Deathwatch and Infinity
Last post, I wrote about what I’d learned in a month or two of painting miniatures again. I’m enjoying the work and the end result, and I’d like to keep …
Keeping Going: Miniature Figure Painting Tips from My Friends
About a month ago, I posted about how I assembled and began painting a single Space Marine miniature. The result was good, but a bit dodgy, especially when I took a …
Three Tips to Help Your First Android Netrunner Game Stay Fun
Most card games are complex beasts, especially collectable and living card games, where each card has some way of altering the basic rules. It can make actually enjoying the game …
Starting Small: One Space Marine at a Time
Facebook, if you’re subscribed to the right pages or people, can become a hall of positive thinking. It’s even better than those framed motivational posters you see on folks’ office …
My International TableTop Day: New Hobby, New Crew
On and off since I moved to Cairns, I’ve been in the odd effort to get a tabletop roleplaying game scene moving. Most recently, I set a Facebook group up …
Will I Bother With Halo 4?
BE WARNED: There’s going to be a lot of “methinks the gamer doth protest too much” in this article, so brace yourselves. See, this article is very much a ‘me’ …
What’s Fun About Making A YouTube Video Review Of FTL?
A few weeks ago, I purchased myself a copy of the PC game, FTL. IT was a cheap buy at around $10 (or around 4 weeks of saving on the …
How Do Five Guys Across the World Make Four Hours of Deathwatch Fun?
I’ve been mentioning Deathwatch a lot in the last couple of months, talking it up. I think it’s high time I started walking the talk and get some friends to …