I’m no nationalist. I’m no nationalist. I have no stake in the entire debate around the Acts of Union of 1706 and 1707: as long as Scots and I can be pals and visit one another’s countries, I’d be happy. The bizarre thing about Europa Universalis IV in light of this is that I feel, … [Read more…]
The Bioshock franchise has always been somewhat calculating and somewhat cold in how it uses young humans: the Little Sisters of the first two games served as player motivation and articles of morbid curiosity in the first two games, given just how terrible the treatment that they have been receiving at the hands of Rapture’s … [Read more…]
A video review of Jamestown. More of these will probably be coming, and hopefully with a little more finesse.
The initial experience of even trying to get Jade Empire to run on a PC with a 64-bit operating system gives away a lot of the frustrations that are yet to come over the course of actually playing the game: if the player unfortunate enough to have hardware made in the last five years does … [Read more…]
In a post-World of Warcraft world, the massively multiplayer genre has become an oversubscribed one. With a variety of both paid and free-to-play alternatives available for fans of the genre, something special is required for a game in the genre to bring itself above the torrent of competition. In the case of Rusty Hearts, the … [Read more…]