Tag: DS

Here we are again, the start of another year and another decade, and so it’s time to look back at the year that’s passed. As with 2008 I’ve decided to do a proper look back at my gaming for the past twelve months: so all the games of 2009 whether they were started, finished or [...]

I’ve been running through my fair share of video games lately, and one thing I noticed about a few of them as I was playing was that either I’ve become extremely fickle, or there are some really balls-to-the-wall bad ideas being trumpeted right at the start of games that really make the entire game unplayable.  [...]

Having been occupying my time recently with returns to well-worn games such as Rock Band (both 1 and 2) and Burnout Paradise, as well as wasting time on Battlefield 1943, which I will try to get a review out for in the next few days, it seems I should perhaps be actually trying to make [...]

For the first I can think of in quite some time I have absolutely no games on pre-order. Zero. Nadda. None. I literally can not think of a time in recent memory when that was the case, and it’s a slightly odd feeling, though a welcome one. I’m hoping this break in new titles might [...]

Rather unsurprisingly the release schedules for January have looked rather bare. In fact, about the only thing of note this month is Skate 2, which lands tomorrow (at least here in the UK that is). This is most welcomed, since I’m currently trying to make some headway into the many games sat on my ‘to [...]

As 2007 became 2008 I ended up taking a look back at my gaming over the year just gone, and having read various lists and summaries of 2008 (and prompted by a friend’s similar exercise) I’ve decided to do a proper look back at the year just gone: a look back at all the games [...]

I thought I’d end out the year by finally gathering my thoughts on the games I played this year. Admittedly, I’m not as up to date on everything that came out this year as I should be (it’s not that I don’t have the games, more that I don’t have the time to play them), [...]

I look at Ben’s list of games there, and it got me thinking about what sort of arbitrary ranking I can give to games I happened to like this year.
Then I remembered I actually hate everything. Well, shit.
But wait. Maybe it’s not all bad. I had to like something, right?
Yeah. I think I did. Maybe. [...]

So 2008 is drawing to its close and seeing various ‘the best X of 2008′ type articles pop up here and there on the Interweb I got to thinking about what I consider the best games of 2008. I decided that ‘best’ was probably too much of an inflammatory term to use for such a [...]

I’ve long been a fan of RPGs and am partial to a spot of tactics and strategy in my games, so, as you might assume, Strategy RPGs have always held an element of appeal to me. And any talk of SRPGs will inevitably lead to mention of titles such as Fire Emblem, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea [...]