Assassin’s Creed: Origins
This is one of the best games I’ve ever played. Yes, an Ubisoft and Assassin’s Creed game. It turns out if you let your team have a year off without releasing a title,… Continue reading
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Traditionally in my Dreaded Backlog posts I play older games that I didn’t play at time of release. That way I don’t have to write about every gaming experience I have, and I… Continue reading
Welcome to my new blog
Originally posted on I want to love food:
I love food. Or at least I think I love food. I certainly adore pizza and a few select pasta dishes. I like so-called trash…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and lessons in passivity
Movie anthologies present a unique challenge in storytelling. It is generally expected in character driven narratives that a protagonist will face a series of challenges that forces them to learn and change and… Continue reading
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
I treat Ubisoft releases the same way as I do with Lego video game releases. They’re all very similar (or identical) games and so I’ll only play one if that individual title’s theme… Continue reading
Sniper Elite 4
At this point it is safe to say I am a big fan of the Sniper Elite series. With Sniper Elite V2 I had a fascinating, if frustrating experience. It was a great… Continue reading
Just Cause 3
Just Cause 3 is an odd beast. Its story and presentation is incredibly ‘old school’, yet many things about it typify a modern video game. On the one hand there is a side-scrolling… Continue reading
Batman: The Telltale Series
Until the late 1980s the in-universe origin of Batman was somewhat unique. It only had a very basic outline of how Batman became Batman depicted usually across only a few panels. Obviously the… Continue reading
Gone Home: Console Edition
I loved Dear Esther, but I hated Virginia. I recently had a go at Firewatch and uninstalled it without completing it first. So how will Gone Home fare in my estimations? It actually… Continue reading
The fundamentals of storytelling and how ‘Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum’ fails to incorporate them
Tonight Doctor Who gave us The Tsuranga Conundrum. It stands out from every episode aired so far this series in one main regard: it’s bad and doesn’t function on any level. As usual… Continue reading
