I like the odd grumble, though I try not to do it too often, and I have more than enough reasons to be happy right now. In the end though, it feels like things are getting too happy around here, so I feel like the balance needs tipping a bit again; though if you hate [...]

A few months ago now (sometime last year) I played Dead Island with a few gaming buddies – It was a rather interesting experience, given that the hype over it died long ago – especially with its release being as contentious as it was. Note: I found this lying around as a draft… I’ve touched [...]

I’m quite the variety gamer, this dawns on me recently. That, or I’m very much a co-operative gamer. If not both. I have bought a number of games over the last year, I have played all of them for some period of time, even if a short period of time – no doubt about that. [...]

These past few weeks and months gaming has had a little aroma of what it used to feel like, the PC isn’t being treated as an outcast as much – if not having been accepted again as a properly viable platform of sorts. Though all that may be the current generation consoles showing their age; [...]

I’d hoped by now to have already been half way through The Witcher 2. Certain unforeseen circumstances saw to that not happening. Firstly, my university course started up – which wasn’t really unforeseen, but the amount of insta-work was – and the warm weather, oh the blasted warm weather. I don’t like it, and gaming [...]

After a good few days of Minecraft and the Vindictus CBT I’m starting to feel like I’ve pretty much grasped (heh) the keyboard controls; even with backslash as my push-to-talk button I still seem to be coping. Of course, still waiting on The Witcher 2′s final update to play that game through, though its combat [...]

I did say at the start of this series that my posts would get further and further apart, though I intended to update yesterday. I’m still going at it, and there is still some residual confusion for my left hand, though my right seems to be doing things just fine. Today also saw my return [...]

There was a time I attributed my rapid advances in accuracy with a mouse to Audiosurf, an indy game based on music, with lanes containing blocks, of which you must hit while surfing your music. Now Audiosurf doesn’t require accuracy, but your score can benefit highly from it – the ability to neatly switch between [...]

Onwards goes my ambidextrous shenanigans, I’ve had the odd stray thought about just going back to my old ways – as tempting as it is I’m determined to try this for a month at least, if not two, the grand finale will hopefully be a play-through of The Witcher 2 once version 2.0 has come [...]

So as this day begins to conclude, I’ve done a little gaming and already have observations to note. Its not noticeable if the game doesn’t have some pressure, for example Minecraft – I can feel something different but unless I’m in a hurry problems don’t really surface; and when they do more than half of [...]