Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
I started writing this a few weeks ago, when I finished Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and then sort of stopped. It took me a while to realise I’d just started trying to write a review rather than keeping to what I thought of it. Actually I finished it almost a year…
Command and Control
It was interesting that Michael Gove made his impassioned criticism of the current national curriculum in the same week that the new national health bill was released. Gove’s traditionalist rant seemed to be based on his perception that young people do not get taught…
Bring Me the Music of 2010
I’m not sure if it is legitimate to persist with “best of 2010” lists this far into 2011. It seems like the moment has gone. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to bother this year, it just means I recognise it is an unseemly use of the worlds precious web space. I think…
2010 My Year in Games
It would be unseemly to finish the year without some sort of list, so this is my summary of games I have played this year. This was my first attempt to record all of the games I have completed and overall I’d have to say it hasn’t gone very well. I…
Fallout New Vegas
I still can’t decide whether or not Fallout New Vegas was one of the greatest games I have ever played or a soul destroying experience from start to finish. After Fallout 3 last year I had been really looking forward to playing this. Though that’s not to say I was a…
Tuition Fees
Watching the news last night I realised that I wasn’t completely sure what I thought about tuition fees as a concept, let alone the various proposals that seem to have got people fairly wound up. The majority of the story in relation to this proposal has been,…
Call of Duty: Black Ops
It’s not been a good year for getting games finished. I’ve started many more than I’ve got to the end of. I’ve been playing Call of Duty since the first one came out in 2003 and have always had a bit of a tradition of playing through the…
There’s a Theme
I’ve noticed quite a few people claiming that this years TV offerings from the US have been quite poor. Particularly the Guardian have run with this as a theme. I can’t really comment on most of the series in that article but will agree that Shit My Dad…
Benefit Fraud
I’m not really that bothered about benefit fraud. I can see that it is something that probably shouldn’t be encouraged but I don’t see it as something that we really need to get that hung up about. Most people that phoned a radio station this morning…
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Another week and another game. I know, it’s mental. I’ve never really got on with the Battlefield series. I missed the first one, 1942, I didn’t have a PC that could play it. I loved the idea of combining all the elements of combat on foot, tanks and…
Red Dead Redemption
It took four months but I finally got round to finishing another game. It hasn’t taken four months, no, it’s been sunny, I’ve been outside. Part of the reason for losing interest was the death of my PS3. A motherboard failure meant I lost every game…
Blues
It’s fair to say that as soon as I stated recording games I’ve finished I lost interest in playing games really quickly. As nothing seems to have got completed in ages I decided to make a playlist. I used to obsessively listen to Blues. It was the music…
