Category Archives: Video Games

Video game review: Mass Effect

I’ve been meaning to play Mass Effect for a while; when I first heard about it, the idea of flexible gameplay where the story depends upon your decisions appealed to me. I was unfamiliar with the concept of an RPG … Continue reading

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Video game review: Grand Theft Auto 5

The Grand Theft Auto franchise is among my favourite series of games. GTA3 and GTA: Vice City were among the first games I got when I first got a PS2, and I loved GTA: San Andreas even more. For some … Continue reading

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Video game review: The Last Express (iPhone)

The Last Express was originally a PC game released in 1997. Critics loved it, but sadly that love was not matched by sales, mostly because gamers didn’t know about it: the publishers lost their marketing department shortly before the release, so … Continue reading

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More video game nostalgia – Titanic: Adventure out of Time

“The past, forever locked in regret. But what if the past could be changed?” Having already talked about the Jurassic Park games I was playing in the late 1990s, here’s another game I was playing a lot around the same … Continue reading

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Gaming in the 90s, Jurassic Park style

Seeing the trailer for Jurassic World has left me feeling nostalgic about Jurassic Park, and wanting to write something about it. Not reviews for the first three movies; I want to save those for later – one of my plans … Continue reading

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