Even for more seasoned roleplayers like myself, the ability to just go in and get straight into the heart of the action can be a welcome relief.
Coming Full Circle: Reviewing The Expanse RPG and AGE
This roleplaying game takes place during the events of the first two books, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. It uses the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) system, and this was my first experience of it.
Destiny Lore – A Retrospective and Prospective Look
We’re now in the sixth year of Bungie’s Destiny franchise and the pyramid ships belonging to agents of the Darkness, those responsible for humanity’s collapse, have returned.
Review of Destiny Grimoire Anthology – Volume II: Fallen Kingdoms
Volume II: Fallen Kingdoms, as the name suggests, focuses largely on the insectoid alien race known as the Fallen (or Eliksni, in their own tongue).
Mobile Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson have been among the earliest providers of consumer friendly smartphone technology, long before the term ‘smartphone’ gained widespread traction among today’s increasingly mobile-savvy shoppers. Throughout the early to mid noughties they produced a line of Symbian-driven touchscreen handsets that helped define a vision of what convergence devices had to offer. Over the past […]
Mobile Review: Samsung Galaxy Mini
I have long been of the belief that technology is an enabler. Used properly it can educate, entertain, and generally enhance the quality of our lives. I am also firmly of the belief that in order for the maximum number of people to benefit from technology, cost should not be a barrier to entry. Samsung […]
Mobile Review: Samsung Galaxy Ace
When I was a boy countless books, films and television shows depicted the 21st century as being full of technological innovations such as flying cars and robot servants. So far these haven’t come to pass (to any significant degree anyway) but that’s not to say technology hasn’t been advancing in the right direction. Computers have […]
Mobile Review: HTC Desire HD
Over the past few years HTC have enjoyed a meteoric rise from being a fairly low-key OEM handset manufacturer to becoming one of the leading names in the mobile phone market. Their winning combination of attractive hardware and intuitive software has won them accolades both at industry and grass roots levels. With the Desire HD […]
Mobile Review: Samsung Omnia 7
Samsung’s Omnia 7 is their very first foray into the world of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s secret weapon in their war to reclaim market share in the mobile space having haemorrhaged most of it away to their competitors since the emergence of the original iPhone and the subsequent rise of the smartphone platform in general. […]