The Daily Scoundrel

There I was getting wound up about one semi-games-related thing, and my girlfriend shouts through from the other room with another.  Seems, in this week’s edition of women’s real-life mag Take A Break, the editor’s mounting a campaign (along with the more motherly of the magazine’s readership) to ban the Grand Theft Auto and [...]

Thank goodness for multiple categories, eh?  After a fairly long wait, Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe airs tonight, tragically relegated to BBC4 at 10pm BST.  Charlie Brooker is a very funny man who used to be a games journalist and now is all famous and on the telly.  You’ll have probably seen him before.  Some people think [...]

Last night, British television station ITV aired a frightening documentary on gaming addiction, and the terrifying results it can apparently have.
Maybe I was naive to expect an interesting, balanced report on the long-debated nature of an addiction that many still feel does not even exist.  Or maybe it’s just the mainstream media stooping to a [...]

I’ve been playing Mini Ninjas for the past couple of days.  I’ve reviewed it for Resolution Magazine.  Go read.
Some further thoughts, though: when I played a demo of this a while back, I was certain it was going to be game of the year material.  It exuded this wonderful charm, and had an incredibly strong [...]

[And so we return to Sunset Valley, and the complete misadventures of Gordon Brown.  Part one here.]
After Tony Blair pisses off home, our hero decides to have a bit of a dance to celebrate:

I’ve found myself increasingly interested in the adventure genre within video games.  Okay, that might sound like an odd thing to say, since I seem to be everyone’s go-to guy when it comes to writing about the genre.  I’ve always been into adventure games.  I’ve always loved them, when done right.  But what’s interesting me [...]

Those familiar with my writings on videogames could be aware of my slight obsession with Russian oddball game Pathologic.  It’s a particularly twisted action-RPG set in a fictitious, early 20th Century Russian town, with the player battling a terrifying plague that’s killing the townsfolk in the thousands per day.  I nagged J.D. to play it [...]

Because I used up the imaginative headline on the actual article.
Here it is, then: the article I spoke a bit about the other night.  This could be of quite a lot of interest to quite a few people, I think – it’d be food for thought for anyone involved in writing in any capacity, really, [...]

I wandered over to an unassumingly classy little conference venue in Leeds tonight, for a talk from a variety of games developers on the writing process for video games.
I’ll be reporting back on this in more detail for Resolution in the next couple of days, but it was an interesting couple of hours, in which [...]