Science Fiction
THE INVINCIBLE, a narrative science fiction game based on the novel by Stanisław Lem. In Episode 1, we meet our intrepid protagonist, astrobiologist Yasna, who wakes up on the planet surface alone, without radio contact, and missing a chunk of her memories. She sets out to investigate what happened to
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In November, we finished our 90-hour playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West. We didn't see absolutely everything, but we completed almost all NPC sidequests and the DLC, Burning Shores!
Essays
Note: this essay was originally published on my Ko-fi and Patreon pages. I'm now archiving it here. In the Horizon series, knowledge as a concept is many things to many people. Empowerment and survival for some; for others, an object of desire. Or, a secret third thing:
Reviews
Eternal Threads of time, or: how to save humanity one butterfly wingflap at a time. Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence. Developed by Cosmonaut Studios, based in Liverpool, and published by Secret Mode, it was released on PS4,
Queer Lit
That was the thing about good people. They did the right thing just because it was. — Orfeus, Foxhunt Orfeus the musician is searching for hope in the heart of danger… In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped most of the poison from the air and bounty hunters keep resource
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What is SOLOS about? SOLOS is about 8 people, from different times but the same universe. Eight people who drift together or apart, who are tied up together in the fabric of space. Each episode stars one person, only the finale features two. Each protagonist has someone to play off
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The Regional Office Is Under Attack is about revenge, from cover to cover. One stroke of vengeance begets the other, and when it ends, there’s a sense of satisfaction, or there isn’t — it’s up to the reader which side they’re on. What’s definitely there is
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This month, I’ve been reading BORNE! I started a new job and since it's on the other end of the city and I can't work from home for a while, that’s a one-hour commute each way [sarcastic cheering]. However! Since I have neither
Queer Lit
“War never takes the wicked man by chance, the good man always.”— Sophocles, Philoctetes Soldiers Live. They Wonder Why. The concept of The Old Guard, sketched out in the exposition and then built upon throughout, is that everyone dies — just for some, their time hasn’t come yet. The soldiers
Queer Lit
If I said I met my vampire prince at a ball at the King’s palace, would you believe me? — OUT OF THIS WORLD OUT OF THIS WORLD is an excellent anthology — crucially in that it introduces new readers, such as me, to such a wide variety of stories by
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If you haven't seen Mad Max: Fury Road yet, I strongly urge you to. Not only does it tell us, in the wake of summer action blockbusters like Age of Ultron and Fast and Furious 7, that this genre is neither dead nor dying — it tells us that
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Fortunately, for all of us who live outside of the UK, there are many different ways to stay tuned to BBC's Doctor Who without a cumbersome (and rather depressing) delay. In short, the internet. Good ol' World Wide Web, the answer to almost everything -- except perhaps the