I hate the idea that I could possibly be guilty of the almighty sin of falling into the trappings of masculinity when it comes to strategy games, but there is something genuinely compelling about being able to be the driving force behind an entire nation, civilisation or, well, any organisational unit of people, really. The … [Read more…]
Subconscious association is an interesting phenomenon: what we tend to think of ancillary to the central point of a given reminiscence informs us of a lot more than the initial memory. The degree to which we hold relationships between the inanimate and our animate interactions with the world, and the targets to which these affective … [Read more…]
I struggle to part with possessions: this is something that is immediately obvious to anyone who happens upon my abode. Old copies of Edge intermingle with video games from the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 era, with a small contingent representing the commercial woes of the Dreamcast and Xbox hanging around on the periphery of these … [Read more…]