Has the achievement system aided the gaming community?

I’ll admit it, when gaming I’m a fairly anti social sod. I’m fine when I’ve got friends over and wanting to game, but when I’m playing online I really can’t be bothered to get to know people because sadly in many cases they turn out to be immature idiots, or even worse immature idiots that [...]

WoW vs EQ1

Sometimes I think World of Warcraft is just too simple to play. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing it. It’s great to play when I’m tired after work or Uni, but there’s no fear factor to it. If you die, you respawn in a graveyard usually very near to your corpse, you respawn as [...]

Gaming entwined with memories

Games have always seemed to be interlinked with memories of my life. I’m not sure if it works the same for others but I can quite easily associate a game with something going on in my life at that time. Street Fighter 2 and Goldeneye were both games me and a mate, Tom, used to [...]