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Shin Megami Tensei – PS2 review
Wait! Before you scroll semi-interestedly to the conclusion, check the score and alt-tab away (leaving us feeling yet more numerically exploited), hear this: Devil Summoner is best described as Phoenix Wright meets Pokémon meets The Exorcist. You might just like it. Reviewing the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series poses an immediate problem. ...
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A summer puma.
Reading David Mitchell and the above phrase leaps off the page like that which it describes. I roll it round in my head for ten minutes and start to find it a little tough to breath. Funny how pretty and concise language can sometimes be claustrophobic.
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Best Thing I Saw Today #11: Joshua Bell busks incognito
Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content. In synopsis: an extremely enterprising staff writer at the Washington Post convinces the super-lauded violinist Joshua Bell to busk in disguise at the busy L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington. The paper filmed his 43-minute set in order to record how many of the ...
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Gunpey – PSP review
To look at it you’d never be able to tell, but Gunpey, Q Entertainment’s latest puzzle game for the PSP, has an undercurrent of melancholy running beneath its bright and fizzing visuals. The game was named after one Gunpei Yokoi, the Nintendo employee who invented, amongst other things, none other than the Game Boy back ...
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A reason for everything
Robert Howells says: i’m a bit annoyed about that Robert Howells says: like, it’s brilliant Robert Howells says: but they could have gone the extra mile and made it perfect goz says: which bit disappoints you? Robert Howells says: the pipe is the wrong colour Robert Howells says: and the layout isn’t exactly the same ...
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The Apprentice
So, apologies for the real life update intermission, but today, almost six months to the day since it started, Project Games Designer comes to a close. Despite the offer of another six month contract working on a different game within the same company, I’ve decided to move on. In my time here I’ve co-written the ...
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Any raise?
For several minutes Harrison attempted to cajole an entirely silent crowd of several thousand people into bidding for his console. Terribly, but somehow inevitably, the bidding never moved beyond Harrison’s starting price. Indeed, he became increasingly desperate as it grew clear that everyone just wanted him to go away, and nobody was going to indulge ...