Category: PC

If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.

  • Cult Games: Minecraft

    To the tune of: Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine I gone and done wrote something about Minecraft: Gamers, especially PC gamers, give the impression of being more than averagely intelligent. It’s a self-selecting set – a group of people who have the desire for and capability to buy a top-end computer and…

  • The Money Farm

    The Money Farm

    To the tune of: Money, Money – Cabaret Buy a PC Gamer-approved product every day this week and you get reward points. You’ve levelled up, now you’re a PCG Ambassador, so you get a PCG fan kit. Meanwhile, your health insurance is incentivising you to walk as it’s worried about your heart rate, and a tobacco firm is incentivising you not to read…

  • Solving MMO review problems

    To the tune of: Nina Nastasia – Our Discussion As an MMO reviewer, I’ve felt both privileged (at occupying a niche few are equipped to explore) and also terrified (at a reviewer’s complete inability to perceive the whole game). As Quintin Smith found last week, and Ed Zitron found previously, reviewers, no matter how professional, can’t…

  • That Mordin Moment: The Unusual Case of the Singing Salarian

    To the tune of: The Element’s Song by Tom Lehrer It’s 2010 and my jaw is hanging like it’s been wired open. I can’t believe what I’m watching on screen. The wise-talking pensive scientist / special operative who’s been fighting robots and aliens and stuff at my side, is… singing. And, in the deep darkness…

  • Red Write Hand

    Red Write Hand

    To the tune of Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I gone and done wrote something, hic: I’m Big Daddy Delta, terror of Rapture, splitter of splicers, defender of the weak, diving suit fetishist extraordinaire. I’m stuck on one side of a door, there’s a broken window and a yellow glowing…