Over the past week, whilst I’ve been grinding my gathering and crafting classes on Final Fantasy XIV I’ve also stuck something to watch on my Huawei MediaPad T3 10, it’s usually been a film that I already know and love but I also like to have something in that doesn’t require a lot of attention […]
Author: Duane Weatherall
An Ode to Vita
As I type this I’m looking worryingly in the direction of my PS Vita. I’m worried that it may no longer be with us. I’ve been using it a lot over the past couple of years to play through Final Fantasy IX (and tracking my progress here), but the last couple of updates were a […]
Magic Castle: The “Lost” PlayStation-era Roguelike
One of the joys of the PlayStation era was, at least for me, the Official PlayStation Magazine. At this time I’d hoover up anything I could to do with gaming, which basically comprised of me pestering for a magazine every time we went to the shops, I’d buy a few every month, the main three […]
Goals for the Year
I’m not one for the whole “New Year, New Me” stuff, I know it’s not meant literally, but it still feels a little like “if I change myself, everything will get better”. I’m very much of the mindset of work with what you’ve got and try not to repeat any mistakes you may have made […]
Monster Sanctuary
There are few game genre’s that I shy away from. I’m not a huge fan of Rogue-like’s for example, but another is the “Metroidvania” style of game. There’s just something about traversing a 2D map, hitting a wall and trying to remember to come back later that stops me from progressing, probably because my memory […]
Games of 2020
Yes, its that time of year when everyone posts their lists of favourite things from the year, I’ve already done one for music, I won’t be doing one for books, comics or films as I’m never up to date on the goings-on in those worlds despite my love for all three, I’ve refrained from doing […]
Top Ten Albums of 2020
I normally do this as a daily countdown, but, well I missed my start date this year and I also didn’t want to post ten music based articles in a row, particularly as they’re usually pretty short. 2020 has, obviously, been an odd one for music, bands have seen gigs, concerts and festivals cancelled, many […]
Vic Lee’s Corona Diary 2020: A personal illustrated journal of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 – Vic Lee
I think over the next six to twelve months we’re going to be seeing more of this kind of thing, diaries detailing the events of 2020 and the personal impact they’ve had upon the authors, or self-help books designed around surviving 2021 because, and let’s be brutally honest here, this is not going away any […]
Why Cyberpunk 2077 means we should really look at how games are developed
First things first. This is a Cyberpunk 2077 related post, I’ve also not played the game, I’m not going to go into a blow-by-blow of exactly whats happened, many many other writers and content creators have done a far better job than I have of that. This post, however, does build upon a fairly relevant […]
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
The Yakuza franchise is many things to a lot of people, over the top organised crime melodrama, a rhythm action game, business simulator, brawler etc, so its been great to see the series grow from struggling to get released outside of Japan back on the PS3 to being the highlight of many peoples release schedules. […]