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Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Betas Need To Replace Demos
Previously on Life, The Universe, And Gaming: Okay I really just wanted to start a column like that, at least once this year. At least it’s relevant this time! In [...]
If Two Gamers Have A Baby, Who Gets An Achievement?
A guide to finding that perfect co-op partner to the game of life. Finding the perfect partner is hard. Even making friends can be hard. This is why we have [...]
Experience Points: Please Stop Trolling Valve
You know a lot of gamers have finished Half-Life 2 Episode 2 and were amazed at the direction, storytelling expertise and general greatness that Valve had created from the first [...]
In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: Final Fantasy XIII Didn’t Suck
What to talk about? Well I really want to speak about Final Fantasy XIII-2 but considering I’m doing the review on that, I’d just be shooting myself in the foot. [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Why Marketing Wins
Be honest, two months ago if I said that a game was coming out in a few months that would be a third-person open-world RPG that would be similar to [...]
Tody’s Take: Assassin’s Creed Seriously Needs To Step Up
I seem to be rolling in the controversial headlines when it comes to my column rants, hey? Well, this time it will be different to my last column on Call [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — The Disappearance Of Cheats
You know what I haven’t used in ages? Apart from the common sense to choose opening sentences that don’t contain innuendos regarding my sexual activity, that is. Ahem. Moving swiftly [...]
Looking Back At January
It’s already the first day of February, and the speed in which day turns to night doesn’t seem to be slowing down. It’s actually crazy. I clearly remember gathering the [...]
Experience Points: What Would Be The Skyrim Killer? Part 1
Gamers often try to come up with the best possible idea for an RPG combining design concepts from other games. They change up the norms and standards, and propose new [...]
Hater’s Corner — Skyrim’s Climax Is A Joke
I don’t usually write columns, as I’m sure most of our frequent readers have noticed. I hardly even read columns, much to the dismay of my fellow writers (sorry guys), [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Innovation Isn’t Everything
Last week as many of you may have read by now, our very own Azhar “Tody” “Potato” Amien released an opinion column that discussed his views on the reasons why [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — What If Chickens Were Reptiles?
Foreword: To those expecting something specifically gaming-related here, I have to apologise, for you’ll find very little gaming here today. If, however, you come here looking to find something truly [...]
Experience Points: What Is A Video Game? Part 1
Contention around what exactly constitutes a “videogame” is one of the more highly debatable topics of choice among gamers alike. There are many elements that make up an entire game. [...]
Tody’s Take: The Truth Behind The Hate For Call Of Duty
Now, that’s quite a controversial headline I’ve chosen isn’t it? But there’s an actual reason for that, and I’m about 43% sure that it wasn’t just to attract attention. I [...]
In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: Batman: Arkham Awesome
Most successful gaming series end on a trilogy; this is especially the case with a series as well received as the Batman Arkham series. As such, I’m going to assume [...]
Board Of Gaming
Hello there Readers. Long time no column as usual. To be honest there’s not much to say from me in the mobile arena so I thought, in true Monty Python [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Nostalgia Can Be Dangerous
Foreword: Hello again, and welcome back to the only place on eGamer where gaming discussion dies a horrid death in the face of, well, nobody really knows what it is [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — November 2011: The Stupidest Month In Gaming History
I’m sure you guys all remember the fateful November of 2011. Commonly hailed as ‘The Month of Gaming’ due to its high number of triple-A game releases, I have a [...]
Experience Points: 2012 & The Possibilities Are Infinite Like Bioshock [Column]
The New Year brings with it gasps of joy, fits of laughter with utterances of, “Here’s to a new start!” and “Ah, work again next week, damnit”. Gamers around the [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — A 2011 To Remember [Column]
Yeah, okay, so we’re not entirely on break. Well, everyone else is. I just felt like I had one more in me, before I took to enjoying my holiday as [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — Answering The Question Of Lydia [Column]
Unless you haven’t been doing your reading lately, or you have a Perception stat roughly equal to that of the Fallout 3 character I made where I put all the [...]
Experience Points: Would Skyrim Translate Well Into JRPG Goodness? [Column]
The title of this week’s column already speaks loads and I wanted to write about something a bit less serious than last week’s endeavour. In turn, I thought I’d take [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Shooter Season Twenty Eleven [Column]
What’s this? A column that’s actually about gaming? From Cavie?! Have we stepped into some alternate universe or something? Is The Answer the same, here? I’ll give you all a [...]
Future Of The Creed 2.0 [Column]
Warning: contains more spoilers than your mother’s little black book and the Assassin’s Creed: Encyclopedia combined. Last year I pondered where the Assassin’s Creed series might be heading after Brotherhood [...]
Experience Points: Why Videogames Are Not Taken Seriously [Column]
A realisation hit me after watching a couple of webisodes (the trendy term for web series episodes) about videogames, and in particular one video by the Hey Ash crew of [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — The Point Of An Opinion [Column]
Well here’s an interesting development… As far as you know through the beauty of encapsulation, this column has published as scheduled at 12:15 on the Monday that it was due [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — Gaming Efficiently (Part 2): Justifying Time Wasted [Column]
For those of you not quite in ‘the know’ (which is like a hip way of saying ‘for those of you who don’t know’, I suppose), I wrote a column [...]
Tab-letting [Column]
Hello friends. Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been experimenting with the idea of purchasing a tablet computer. So I thought it might be appropriate to give you my thoughts [...]
Experience Points: Why Is Skyrim So Addictive? [Column]
This week’s column takes a turn to my own area of interest, aside from reviewing games and talking about them. I enjoy analysing game design choices made by developers. I [...]
In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: Pre-Order Content — You Win Some You Lose Most [Column]
Finally, it’s done, thank God for that. It’s been three weeks of purgatory, trying to finish a truly hellish and entirely de-motivating varsity research project. I’m back though, and after [...]


