Writer and freelance game critic with a fascination for folklore, cosmology, horror and the occult. I've written for Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, Lost in Cult, Waypoint, Kotaku UK, Edge Magazine, Wireframe and many others.
Musings
I was taken on a drive around Waltham this morning. It seems a pleasant enough town. I saw no horrors, no drug-testing laboratories, no factory farms, no abattoirs. Yet I am sure they are here. They must be. They simply do not advertise themselves. They are all around us
Review
This mini-review is a contribution to Felipe Pepe's crowd-sourced CRPG Book Project. The dark and the ocean. Sunless Sea’s title contains the most potent metaphors for the unknown, and it very much hinges upon the two reactions that the unknown elicits: fear and curiosity. As
Musings
I’m a terrible puzzle game player; not in the sense that I’m rubbish at them (though sometimes that’s true too) but that I simply don’t care enough. When a solution eludes me for more than half an hour or so, I either give up entirely, or
Literature
What can change the nature of a man? Black Isle’s Planescape: Torment may not have changed my nature, but it certainly has radically changed my perspective on what games can do, and on the potential of writing in games. When I first played it in the wake of my
Review
We’ve all experienced that moment when we were sure that our computer is part of a demonic plot to drive us insane. It must be the ghost in the machine, the inexplicable life of a computer that is dead-set to be our enemy. Even in a cease-fire,