This is great, people keep linking me to things I wrote ages ago and forgot about, so I can link them here. Snowskeeper Ferenczy points out this, something I wrote very fast after a game of Alien...
https://www.pentadact.com/2014-01-07-a-story-of-heroism-in-alien-swarm/
The podcast I am party to, the Crate and Crowbar, now has a forum. On it, Gunpoint artist John Roberts has started a thread for tales of people’s in-game adventures, starting with a good one of...
https://www.pentadact.com/2013-12-21-one-desperate-battle-in-ftl/
“In Skyrim, a mage is an unstoppable storm of destruction. In real life, a mage is just an illusionist: they can’t do much except trick you. If one of them turned out to be the world’s only...
https://www.pentadact.com/2013-01-17-playing-skyrim-with-nothing-but-illusion/
Published a long while back, don’t think I ever linked it here. A long-suppressed rant at mainstream action game design. “The instant the first character speaks, I reflexively want them to sh...
https://www.pentadact.com/2013-01-06-how-mainstream-games-butchered-themselves-and-why-its-my-fault/
My review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is finally online. It is the greatest thing. The game, not the review. Kind of a big one, so I hope I explained it well enough.
https://www.pentadact.com/2011-08-22-deus-ex-human-revolution-review/
The PC Gamer site moves pretty fast these days, so I might occasionally recap what I’ve done there recently. Here’s some of my stuff from the last month: The complete Minecraft Experiment ...
“Portrait? I don’t have a photo ready for this, but I’ll see what I’ve got in My Documents. Ah yes, an animated GIF Tim sent me of David Hasselhoff wearing David Hasselhoff briefs, which ...
https://www.pentadact.com/2008-05-20-fractal-hasselhoff-and-football-management/
The simultaneous ambush and galaxy-wide hangar theft inflicted financial damage upwards of 30 billion ISK - $16,500 US dollars at IGE.com's prices. And yet the only item the Guiding Hand's anonym...
Galactic Civilizations 2 is a strategy game about colonising space. The cool thing about it is the AI: the alien races you meet have very different personalities, and it’s fun to bargain with t...
https://www.pentadact.com/2008-01-13-my-galactic-civilizations-2-war-diary/