Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
XCOM 2 was one of my most anticipated games for this year; I loved the first remake and the sequel looked to take the game in lots of cool new directions.
I’ve played for most of the week and here’s my spoiler-free thoughts. I’ve just finished the game because I’m playing on Ironman… Continue reading “XCOM 2: Spoiler-Free Review”
I lucked out last weekend and got invited into the Overwatch stress test. Overwatch is on my “games that might make me giddy” list so I was willing to sacrifice myself to help stress-test Blizzard’s servers.
For the greater good, you see.
There’s plenty written about the game already so I thought I’d write down where I found the game surprising. Continue reading “Things I Didn’t Expect from the Overwatch Beta Weekend…”
After 8 years, the Starcraft story has concluded with Legacy of the Void. I’ve finished it (just) and here are some (spoiler-free) thoughts. Continue reading “Starcraft 2 : Legacy of the Void Review (Campaign)”
We all went to see The Martian and the local cinema this week so I decided to write a few words about it if you’re wondering whether to see it. Spoiler-free review follows! Continue reading “The Martian Film Review”
More sweet fruit from the Kickstarter tree. This was pitched as a spiritual successor to Syndicate (the original, not the remake) and while it didn’t get all of it’s stretch goals it hit its target.
Satellite Reign was released last week and here’s my spoiler-free thoughts. Continue reading “Review : Satellite Reign”
I took my daughter’s to see Pixar’s newest film at the weekend. My (spoiler-free) thoughts are after the line. Continue reading “Pixar’s Inside Out Film Review”
I play a lot of board games with my children (two, aged 10 and 12); they’ve got to the stage now where they beat me as often as I win, which is pretty cool. Here’s a list of the games we’ve played the most; not necessarily our favourites but these are the ones we keep coming back to.
I played my first game of XenoShyft Onslaught a few weeks ago. The full release of the game was May 1st but I got a copy a bit early as I backed it on Kickstarter. It’s a co-op, card-building base-defense game; heroic / mercenary corporate troopers hold off waves
of ravening mutated aliens in desperate, heroic battle.
Or they all get mangled, killed and eaten. And not necessarily in that order, either.
If you’ve read a few of the other bits of writing on here, you can guess how my friends and I did….
The family and I went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron at the weekend at the London IMAX. Here’s some totally non-objective, fan-boyish thoughts. It’s spoiler-free!
Happy New Year!
Through the magic of Steam I can look back and see all the games I played in the last year. Of course not all of them are 2014 games, but still 🙂
The list and some very brief thoughts are below.
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