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Wolf’s Wicked Words: Clever Narratives
Why do we need a villain? What is their purpose? Do we so desperately crave the need for a hero? A hero that will fight the damnable hordes of heinous [...]
Gaming Like A Sir: Piracy And Porn
An Assessment Of Piracy And DRM Through The Use Of Pornography. I know you’re here for the porn. But now that I have you I’m going to present one idea [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Gamers Rarely Know What They Want
There’s a reason why game developers let us in on as little information as possible, at a time. There’s also a reason why they don’t always look to their community [...]
Tody’s Take: Difficulty Settings Need To Have More Thought Put Into Them
In my last column I talked about the problems with gaming tutorials, and today I’m going to rant about difficulty settings, because I feel that they are another area that [...]
Quest Updated: Audible Atmosphere
I take a moment to gather my thoughts. I put the gramophone on, and the voice of Bobby Darin fills the old saloon. My heart rate finally drops again. I [...]
Experience Points: The Ragefest Of Tribes Ascend
This weekend I’ve been playing Tribes Ascend like I have no life at all. Which reminds me of that South Park ‘World Of Warcraft’ episode. Except with less swearing, relative [...]
Musing Of A Mad Hatter: Passionate Hatred
I’m what you would call a modern gamer. I did, in fact, grow up playing NES games on one of those old shameless rip-off Golden China consoles and I somehow [...]
Gaming Like A Sir: Excited For Black Ops 2, The Modern Warfare Effect
I’ve been feeling nostalgic of late. Maybe it’s the cold, wet weather of contemplation or perhaps it’s the long lonely, music filled bus rides of late or perhaps it’s my [...]
Fringe Division – Game Making: A Brief Personal History
Hello there readers. Now to be honest with you, I really couldn’t think of anything to write on this week, and I’m quite vehemently opposed to churning out mindless ranting [...]
Unanticipated April Was.. Interesting?
Silly headline, isn’t it? Initially, you’d think so. Instead, let’s stay open-minded and run through what actually happened in April. April is a somewhat quiet month, especially after the carnage [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — It’s Complicated
Complexity and difficulty. Two huge aspects of gaming that many have argued, no longer exist in gaming. Everything’s simplified now, easier, more accessible. A first-time gamer could pick up and [...]
Tody’s Take: Please God, Stop The Tutorials
After attending the Cape Town Prototype 2 launch event this past Thursday night, and getting to play the game, I stumbled once again upon one of the things that I [...]
Things Left Unfinish…
It sounds like an old dial-up modem. When last did I even hear one? The beeping has ripped through that familiar little jazzy number that was playing on the radio, [...]
Wolf’s Wicked Words: 1.2mm Of Awesome
Feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, gasping for redemption in the form of precious air, with so much at stake. Should I continue with my current path [...]
Gaming Like A Sir: Marketing Games Properly
My new column, NOW WITH WORDS! Immersion is an odd thing. Developers toss and overwork the word as if each use directly correlates to another sold copy of their game. [...]
How To Make An Insta-Billion
So I’m sure most of you have heard of Instagram and its recent sale to Facebook. Now if you’ve actually used Instagram, you’d know that on the face of it [...]
Tody’s Take: The PlayStation Vita’s Road To Gaming Success
I’ve recently gotten my hands on a PlayStation Vita, much to my happiness, and if you’ve seen our review of it then you’d know that we’re really excited about the [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Inspired Gaming
Coming out of a manic March of Mass Effect 3 and not much else, I have to admit that when I haven’t been playing the ridiculously inexplicably addictive multiplayer, I’ve [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — Bureaucracy Is Killing Character In Games
Every now and then during one of my writing sessions I’ll finish off a paragraph, sentence or practically any train of thought which my mind was on, lean back in [...]
Quest Updated: Girl Games?
My girlfriend is slowly becoming a gamer. She can use a PlayStation control now. She has more than one favourite game. Her current favourite allows her to run around, picking [...]
Experience Points: The Evolution Of Videogames
The relative difficulty of typing something on the page of a blank screen with a blinking cursor as a guide may be a daunting task, as Timothy exemplified in his [...]
Musings Of A Mad Hatter: Garner Immersion
It’s one thing to just have fun with a game by shooting random zombies or doing shweet trix off a mountain with an indestructible snowboard, but it’s another thing to be [...]
In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: When Writer’s Block Attacks
A couple horrible weeks later and I still have nothing to write, nor the motivation to express any idea that did come to mind. But this column is fast approaching [...]
How DotA Ruins Lives: A Personal Testimony
Back in 2007 I used to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed. I didn’t really play games in too much of a competitive fashion since, multiplayer was mostly done [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming — It’s Time For The Cavie Awards
Our eGamer Awards may have already happened but now I feel it’s time to have another set of Awards, all to be handed out in this here column based purely on opinion and subjective thought. Why? The better question is why not?
Monotonous March Is Gone
March can be described very simply: March was an emotional roller-coaster for gamers. With a six day build up to Mass Effect 3 (United States release date 6 March), we [...]
A Gamer’s Perspective — Holding Developers Accountable
I know, I know — you don’t want to hear another word about Mass Effect 3, BioWare or anything even vaguely related to them for as long as you live. [...]
Quest Updated: Dying Rules
“F#@k, I HATE dying!” The outburst next to me says my sister’s game of Titan Quest is not going as well as expected. “Dying is such a pain. I hate it!” She says the words without a drop of irony. I more than make up for it: “Yes, Lins. Most people do.”
Experience Points: Graphics Whoring In Games
Having to review crappy games is part and parcel of the whole video game journalism ‘shin-dig’. I find writing my columns a reprieve from the horrors of many misguided game [...]
Wolf’s Wicked Words: Think Before You Judge
A column is a column is a column. This is my first column and I need to sound smart. There you go, I just did. I have wandered my house’s [...]




