From Our Own Correspondent
Gareth Brading is an aspiring Philosopher, critic and Newspaperman. This blog is dedicated to showcasing his various journalistic talents.
Games of Life: Super Meat Boy (2010)
This review was first posted to GameSpot.com as a user review in February 2011. For the original location, see here. Super Meat Boy is one of the most infuriatingly difficult and yet ridiculously addictive games you will ever play. Super Meat Boy is, very simply, psychotic. That’s the only way I can even hope to … Read more
Games of Life: BioShock 2 (2010)
This review was first posted to GameSpot.com as a user review in October 2010. For the original location, see here. BioShock 2 is still a thoroughly enjoyable game, but the magic of the original is sadly gone. There was once a game which set itself in an Art-Deco city, located deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. The … Read more
Features: Back to the Future… From 1929
This features article was first published in the November 2009 issue of ‘Wessex Scene’. It’s digitized version can be accessed here. Many in the press are constantly drawing parallels between the current global economic crisis and the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which happened 80 years ago this Autumn. Both happened relatively suddenly, and both had … Read more
From the Archive: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
“On the evening of 7th October, 1989 several hundred people got together for some evening exercise and marched for the right to go for walks without the Berlin Wall getting in their way.” The German-language film Good Bye, Lenin! is a story of several aspects: A son’s love for his mother, his love for a … Read more
