Wednesday 26 November 2014

Post-Modern Warfare: Advanced Warfare Initial Impressions

Broadly speaking, first-person shooter experiences come in two distinct flavours; pseudo-realistic, 'man on the ground' stories of triumph over adversity, and super soldier omnipotence fantasies. Call of Duty has up, until now, stuck steadfastly to the former, but Advanced Warfare's take on mid 21st century conflict blurs the lines between the two somewhat.

Thursday 13 November 2014

Wednesday 5 November 2014

Why I'm Growing To Hate 'Gamers'

As I've said before in a previous post, I think the term 'gamers' is something of a misnomer, but for the purposes of what I'm about to write, it's a rather handy shorthand term for the objects of my ire. 

During my downtime I frequent a great number of gaming-related websites in order to get my daily news fix. I used to quite enjoy reading their comments sections and forums to get a feel for public reactions to the day's stories. Sadly, that's no longer the case.