I’ve been slack. Once a devoted Nintendo fanboy who would devour any new Mario games within days of release, I’ve recently allowed myself to become distracted by numerous other games on other consoles. Today, I was determined to make amends,
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As I’ve mentioned recently, since the turn of the decade I’ve been obsessed with the online multiplayer deathmatches and dominations of a certain Modern Warfare 2, to the point where I’ve been seeing snipers in my sleep and idly fantasizing
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I've got blisters on my fingers.
In 1992, Hungarian psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi penned a book entitled ‘Flow‘, which describes a ‘mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full
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Too much chat, not enough dismemberment.
Being a fan of the original Dead Space, of on-rails-shooters in general, and being the only genre where my girlfriend and I can play together in perfect harmony without me screaming at her for constantly making her character either look
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Not the usual paint-by-numbers approach.
My Wii has probably been feeling neglected recently. It’s slight white frame sits right next to the shiny black beast that is the Ps3, positively cowering in it’s shadow. It probably couldn’t believe it’s luck when I booted it up
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