Gaming

Mass Effect

A Review on Mass Effect developed by BioWare Released in 2007 Mass Effect is a science fiction action-role-playing third-person shooter developed and released by BioWare in 2007 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC gaming platforms. Mass Effect is the first game in the series and first of a trilogy followed by Mass Effect 2 (2010) and… Continue reading Mass Effect

Books

Ready Player One

A comparison between the novel and the film The following article is not a review as such but more of an analysis of certain aspects of the novel and the film that stood out to me as strange or moving. A word of warning: if you have not read the book or watched the movie… Continue reading Ready Player One

Books

Ready Player One

A Review of Ready Player One ~ by Ernest Cline Lit-RPG / Sci-Fi / Dystopian It is the year 2045 and Wade Watts, an eighteen-year-old living in a trailer park - nicknamed "The Stacks" - outside Oklahoma City, has accomplished what no one else could in the five years since the passing of Gregarious Simulation… Continue reading Ready Player One

Movies

Peaceful Warrior

A Review on Peaceful Warrior ~ 2006 Drama / Sport / Inspirational The Peaceful Warrior is an inspirational drama released in 2006 by Lionsgate Universal Pictures and is a film adaptation of the novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior written by Dan Millman. Even if sport films are not your preferred type of genre, this… Continue reading Peaceful Warrior

Gaming

Borderlands

Review of Borderlands developed by Gearbox Software & 2K Games. Released in 2009 Borderlands is an action-packed, multiplayer, first person roleplaying game (FPS RPG) released in 2009 by Gearbox Software and 2K Games. It is the first game in the series followed by Borderlands 2 (2012), Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (2014) and a spin-off called Tales… Continue reading Borderlands

Books

The Final Days

A Review on The Final Days ~ by Alex Chance Thriller / Mystery / Suspense Karen Wiley is a recently divorced psychologist and mother to a young eleven-year-old daughter. Just as Karen thought that she was going to start a new life, free from her ex-husband Dave, the letters started to arrive. "O God help… Continue reading The Final Days

Rants & Bants

Avatars: It’s A Boy/Girl Thing

Gender roles... This is something that we cannot even escape in the gaming community. For years and years there has always been a debate within my circle of friends, both in real life and in the guild, as to why men prefer to play with female characters and vice versa - aka: Gender Swapping. I… Continue reading Avatars: It’s A Boy/Girl Thing

Rants & Bants

E-Girls – Why Gamer Girls Hate Them & You Should Too

E-girls - what are these creatures, how do you identify them and how do you deal with them? :/If you are a gamer then you have inevitably come across an e-girl. Without using the crude words that the Internet *perfectly* uses to describe them, I will simply describe them as annoying attention seekers that make… Continue reading E-Girls – Why Gamer Girls Hate Them & You Should Too