You’d Be Surprised Which Skills Transfer
So, yes: Another XCOM: Enemy Unknown strip! This’ll be the last one for a while, unless the DLC – which originally wasn’t going to be Enemy Within, just the two …
What Planet Earth Needs More
One of the cool things about XCOM: Enemy Unknown is that it makes no difference between its male and female troopers. Admittedly, gender isn’t one of the things you can customise …
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. …
The Desktop PC Adventure, Part 1
You know, when I came up with this idea of wanting to feel as though life is an adventure, I didn’t think it’d apply to something as non-getting-outside as my …
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 Big a Difference can One Piece of Hardware Make to a Computer?
My poor rig was around a year overdue for a clean out. I evicted at least two families of dust bunnies from within its case on the weekend. A few …
Ten Things Miracle of Sound Can Teach You About Making Fun
Making fun. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Try it for five seconds and you’ll soon realise it ain’t. It involves just as much focus and effort as your day job. How …
GTRF! Episode 3: Ogre
The last one came three weeks early, so naturally this one comes two months late! This one’s another labour of love, although I didn’t write it. It’s a vignette written …
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
As broadcast on various social networks last night and this morning, The Cairns Post has run my review of Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 on page …
The Minty Taste of Confidence
This may surprise you, but for the longest time I’ve had a deep resistance to being seen as an expert with technology. Sure, I loves me some sci-fi. Yes, I …