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Jagged Alliance 2 Book Review

Posted on November 30, 2024 by JC

Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi, Boss Fight Books, August 25th, 2014 This is a book I had long been interested in but held off buying despite it being dedicated to one of my favourite games of all time. It … Continue reading →

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Do the Game Awards even know their categories?

Posted on November 19, 2023 by JC

This will be three video game related posts in a row but there hasn’t been much else to write about lately and this blog did start out with games as a focus. I hope to resume varied content again soon. … Continue reading →

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The End of Zero Punctuation

Posted on November 12, 2023 by JC

The recent news that at The Escapist had layoffs followed by resignations of a number of other staff members, most notably Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw means the end of Zero Punctuation, the game review video series he had been producing for … Continue reading →

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Four Notable Australian Games

Posted on July 21, 2023 by JC

Australia isn’t well known for video game development but it has a respectable history in the industry despite being (population wise), quite small. I could point the curious to this list on Wikipedia but it would only cause confusion. Many … Continue reading →

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Dashing Sky Pirates: A Short Anthology

Posted on June 30, 2023 by JC

Crimson Skies by Eric S. Nylund, Mike Lee, Nancy Berman & Eric S. Trautmann Del Rey, October 1st, 2002  Of late, I’ve been reading a number of swashbucklers and related media and I’ve become particularly interested in fictional sky pirates. … Continue reading →

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Hideo Kojima and Michael Bay

Posted on June 17, 2023 by JC

This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for at least ten years but never did. This is mostly because I didn’t feel I had my thoughts together enough to get my point across — and I may yet … Continue reading →

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Towards a Heuristic for a GREAT Game

Posted on September 10, 2022 by JC

This post is the culmination of something I’ve been thinking about for a while but have never put into writing after years of playing, reading about and reviewing games. There are obviously a lot of problems with gaming journalism as … Continue reading →

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Shattering Idols

Posted on May 28, 2022 by JC

I have shattered many idols out along the dusty track, Burnt a lot of fancy verses — and I’m glad that I am back. Henry Lawson, Up the Country I have had a number of posts over the years discussing … Continue reading →

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Microsoft has bought husks

Posted on February 27, 2022 by JC

Last month Microsoft announced it had purchased Activision Blizzard, one of the largest publishers in in the video game industry. This came after a number of high-profile purchases over the last few years including Bethesda in 2020 and a number … Continue reading →

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E3 is pointless and has been for years

Posted on June 16, 2021 by JC

Just over two years ago I wrote a diatribe called ‘The Absolute State of Video Games’ that covered various aspects of the gaming industry. One that I covered towards the end was the increasing irrelevance of gaming media as publishers … Continue reading →

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