Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Gaming Education: WipEout HD

The thing about WipEout HD is that I love it wrong. I don’t love it because of its insane speed, which is totally insane and breakneck and makes my brain melt into a gooey, twitching, satiated mess. I don’t love … Continue reading

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Kicking Pigeons: Part Three

God does not exist. I know this because if he did, he’d never have invented such a thing as a hangover. I get that the universe has to balance, that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction — … Continue reading

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Kicking Pigeons: Part Two

Discipline! What is it? Where does it come from? Why are some of us born with none whatsoever? I felt Part One of my game diary came off quite well, all things (laziness, a redesigned Edge to read, Assassin’s Creed … Continue reading

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Kicking Pigeons: Part One

“Part one.” “He adored Liberty City. He idolised it out of all proportion.” Hmm, no. Make that: “He romanticised it out of all proportion.” “To him, no matter how many years passed, this was still a town that existed in … Continue reading

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Kicking Pigeons: The Silly Thing

I’ve done a silly thing. I’ve bought Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC, despite having a backlog of fifty other games I don’t have time to play, despite being so poor I can’t afford new socks, despite the PS3 … Continue reading

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