#oneaday Frustrated movie directors operating as videogame designers.

I’m openly critical of video game developers apparent need to justify the existence of  their latest title by making the “experience” “cinematic”. I often feel that developers tend to over really on what they deem as “cinematic” experiences or use cut-scenes far too often. Both of these issues are seemingly left overs from the PlayStation [...]

#oneaday Heavy expectations

Removing differing tastes and different styles of games, what makes us enjoy one game less than another? I read this Tumblr user’s musings this morning and it got me thinking about things that could hamper our enjoyment of games that are regarded as good. I’ve said quite recently I struggle to get into Bayonetta, shortly [...]

#oneaday Gag reflex; a Bulletstorm first impression.

Phoo, Bulletstorm. I honestly do not know where to start, purely because my first experience of the game is one of ambivalence. Let’s put it this way, I wasn’t really a fan of Gears of War, I found it far too macho and the design of it dank, depressing and ridiculously BIG, and thats not [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Metal Gear Solid

I usually try and do one of these each weekend for bitparade.co.uk, doesn’t always happen though, but this week I’ve managed it and as you can see, have been covering Metal Gear Solid.   It says alot about a particular franchise that its fans can overlook the fact each instalment has become more and more [...]

#oneaday Gyration in latex

I think I mentioned fairly recently that I really want to play Bayonetta, everything I’ve heard is pretty damned positive, but everytime I try to play it, I’d rather be doing something else. This got me thinking of what I do like about it based purely on what I’ve played thus far (which isn’t alot), [...]

#oneaday The all new, sparkly, re-re-released, re-masted, best ever, I can’t believe its not butter, 30% more release

There’s always been a trend in entertainment media to re-release things. Films get re-released all the time, either because of format changes or because the director has decided to take another stab at it (see Blade Runner and Star Wars). However its the Game re-release that gets my goat. I don’t mind the one-off designed [...]

#oneaday “Label”

Why do we apply labels to people? As a society we seem to have to pigeonhole a person and fit their personality traits to that stereotype based purely on their appearance and interests. It’s something I’ve always been uncomfortable with. A few weeks ago, prior to removing my piercings from my eyebrow, someone on a [...]

#oneaday script me baby one more time

I hope this doesn’t turn into a blog where I just bitch and moan about how I’m not enjoying videogames as much as I used to, but yes, this is another post that contains me bitching and moaning about videogames. So what is it this time? I hear you ask. Putting it simply, its the [...]

#oneaday “Games of 2010?”

Okay, stereotypical blog entry from a gamer I know, meh, whatever. Anyway, its crazy mad to think yet another 12 months in my lifetime have passed, and as always its gone far too quickly. I’ve barely completed any games at all, but thats nothing new, I have enjoyed a fair few though and the following [...]

Sitting on the fence?

In today’s “The Observer Magazine” (21/3/2010) author Tom Bissell writes an article detailing his addiction to videogames. Within the article are long descriptions of his experiences of playing Rockstars Grand Theft Auto series, and whilst large parts of the artile show a love of gaming and highlight the things that gaming can do that no [...]