Why did Prince of Persia keep me playing for so long?

Point Increase since February 7th: 1755
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks on this blog, for which I apologise for. I’ve been quite busy as well as lacking in motivation which isn’t a great combination for this blog, nor for a budding writer such as myself! Writing wise, I’ve just finshed up a review of [...]

Jack’s Back, but he can’t save me from that pesky dog!

CoD:WaW has been sitting on my shelf untouched since I bought it second hand just after Christmas. In hindsight it was an impulsive buy that really I shouldn’t have made considering I’d only just bought Left4Dead. Despite many of my friends and I loving our multiplayer sessions of CoD4, no one I knew bought CoD:WaW [...]

I am a gaming snob

Come on, admit it, so are you. So many of us are after years of games playing. We sit there and can’t help but gasp when new gamers are in awe of games that we’ve already dismissed as derivative crap. But by doing so, are we missing out on the joys that we used to [...]

Frustration

Sometimes I feel extremely frustrated with myself. I manage to be interested in way too much so I never quite settle to anything which probably means I never quite achieve anything.
I feel like I could achieve a lot if I set my mind to it even with my fairly uninspiring degree and my half completed [...]

Being drawn back into a game

I love the feeling I get when I want to return to a game because it’s so good, I want to see what happens next even when I’m tired and it’s late and I should really go to bed. There’s some strange feeling about it that makes me feel alive, I suppose it’s a form [...]