Space Marine

The Christmas Steam Sale has begun in earnest and in response a few threads have arisen asking whether games such as Space Marine are worth buying. For the price of £14.99, you'd get about 4-5 hours of enjoyable single-player experience (with a campaign that is 8 hours.) My currency of leisure time is one pint of beer an hour. This rather conservative method of drinking equates, in Hull prices, to £2.50 an hour. So, in terms of the single player experience, it's rather steep. However, the game manages to sell on its cultural capital of the 40k universe. True to its 1980s indie gaming roots, the 40k universe is brutal. There is no righteous battle for good, or even for bad; only imperialism. There is no war-weariness; billions die on a whim...

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The Witcher Movie

On the recommendation of a Polish lad I teach/once taught, I have found a Polish TV movie adaptation of The Witcher. Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4x8EOM...

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Do we ever grow-up?

Here is a response to a post on the PC-Gamer board. Read the thread here. I've been thinking much about this recently. I've considered seeing being 'grown-up' as dedicating less time to my imaginative life. That is, less time and judos to imaginative experiences than experiences of 'reality.' Reality, by my definition, being that which still exists even when you ignore it: taxes, rain and hunger for one. Play is a serious thing. Just because we think that we stop playing, doesn't mean we have. I think most of our lives - not least our 'professional' lives - are games with set rules and achievements (and power-ups!) Just because we don't commit all the rules to paper doesn't mean they don't exist in a very real fashion: no-one has told me not...

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