So two months ago I said that July would be catch up month and that tackling the backlog would have to wait for a few weeks. Well those few weeks ended up becoming two whole months as the Steam sale went on and I was, once again, overwhe...

Failure! As much as I expected it, Dark Souls has kicked my ass this month. I've put in some hours in Dark Souls but I'm making slow progress. This is what I expected though, my friends have told me that Dark Souls is a game I’ll make slow ...

If I thought last month was productive, then May was even better. Thanks to a pair of three-day weekends I managed to get plenty of games completed this month. First up was Singularity, which took me about 8 hours to complete. It’s a good g...

Last month was a good result in taking on my Backlog; I took on three games, two old and one new and completed all of them. First up was Hard Reset, the old school sci-fi FPS. Boy, I tell you I haven’t circle strafed in a game for quite so...

Okay so that took longer than expected. At the start of February you voted that I should play The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition for the first time. And play it I did but it took a whole lot longer than expected. So here’s my excu...

So last month you kindly folks voted that I play Sleeping Dogs and scratch that game off my backlog. And play it I did, completing the single player, a fair chunk of the side missions as well as the Zodiac Tournament and Nightmare in Northp...

So in the vain hope of reducing my backlog, I’m throwing open the chance to all of you lovely folk as to what game I’m going to play next in my backlog. When I say my hopes are in vain, it basically means that I’m hoping to play as many g...

Hey, here's the games I enjoyed the most out in 2012. See the bottom of this post for the obligatory apologies and excuses. 10: Thirty Flights of Loving A game with simplistic graphics and controls that only takes maybe 15 minutes to pla...

Cards against Humanity is a very simple game. It can also be a staggeringly offensive game if you are so inclined. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Cards Against Humanity gained notoriety online and it's been something my friends an...

So in 2011, I set myself the challenge of completing more games and making a dent on my backlog. In the end I had mixed results; the games I finished almost all the games I started this year, but I still didn't really make a dent on my actu...

Earlier on this year, I made the decision I had to finish more games and to make an effort to try and reduce my backlog. The reasons for this were twofold; I had received an X-box 360 for Christmas and after moving back from Australia I had...

*(Yes 2010, not 2011. I am very late with this) I am easily distracted. Whilst I like to think I'm very focussed and single minded, I get overwhelmed with other things and find myself wanting constant variety. All of which is a fairly lame...

So over the last six days, I've been in the surprisingly warm, north east coast of Scotland helping my parents moving some items out of my grandparent's old house. My grandmother passed away a few years ago and we've moving some large items...

So just a few days ago, EPIC games president Mike Capps claimed that mobile app gaming is going to affect the next generation of console games in a negative way: “I’m more worried that you can get a really good 99 cent game that occupies y...

So now that I’ve gotten a couple of posts under my belt, I thought I’d re-introduce myself, as of course you’re all wondering who that handsome, monochrome man is that scowling at you from the top of some PC news on the frontpage. In my pas...

[Disclaimer: I wrote most of this last week without having internet access in my house, and only getting videogame news via my phone. By now quite a bit of what I've written about is either incorrect or been revealed, but I'm putting it up ...

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m a videogame news junkie; even when it comes to either titles or systems I don’t own. Part of the downside of this is that I’m often not surprised when I actually play a game because there’s a nagging feeling ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, let's all look to the seas and wish our part man, part-shark, all badass Community manager a very happy birthday!

So after an initial run through of the fairly average Severed DLC for Dead Space 2, I thought to myself “Yeah, I’m going to try this on the Zealot difficulty” (Zealot being one harder than normal). Wow, that was a mistake; Severed is compos...

*that’s not a euphanism So this year, I’ve decided to make a concentrated effort to play more games and significantly reduce my backlog of games. Now moving from Australia back to Scotland has meant that my X-box 360 collection has shrunk ...

It takes something special for me to return to a game; considering I actually finish so few of them, having a game I will play more than once is actually a rarity. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a game I’ve completed on numerous occasions, ...

After reading a bunch of 2010 Game Of The Year lists, one thing was clear; people really enjoyed Mass Effect 2 (I was one of them), but there was one thing that stuck out amidst the praise. There were numerous comments complaining that Mass...

It’s an interesting concept that an entire year sucked for gaming; especially after having the last few years branded “the best year in gaming since ****!” which seemed to have started in either 2006 or 2007. Looking back at a year, you can...

So 2010 has almost passed, which is a relief. It’s been a year of highs (going to PAX in September and meeting my Dtoid buddies for the first time and having an awesome time) to agonising lows (upheaval in my personal life). As such, gaming...

Even when I received my pass in the post, I still couldn’t believe I was actually going to PAX. I felt something would go wrong; like I’d be turned away from US Customs for having a beard or something. So after saying bye to my mum and dad,...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a co-op, top down shooter available on Steam. You blast some aliens and it’s been developed from a Unreal Tournament mod. Yes, it’s Alien Breed: Impact, which was released in June on Steam. ...

A few months ago, I posted a cblog about how I doubted that Dead Rising 2 was ever going to get released in AustraliaWell, incredibly Games On.net are reporting that Dead Rising 2 will be released in Australia, uncut with an MA15+ rating, w...

There was a package on my desk at home when I got back from work. Strange. Let's have a look: No rattling noises, no ticking and no vibrating. That's a relief. Ah, it's from Destructoid, so it must be legit: Alright, let's open the fu...

Something happened today that may set events in motions that will change my life. Late last night, the Gamers 4 Croydon party posted a photo on their Twitter feed that showed that Michael Atkinson had been re-elected as the Member of Parlia...

So hey, I'm about to pack up my bags and leave the country. I've been fired from my job and I've spent the last three months unemployed, rarely leaving my appartment. But then something beautiful came into my life: Destructoid! Oh, my wife ...