ROSS HARRISON

ROSS HARRISON

Tag: gaming

  • What’s Wrong With Games

    What’s Wrong With Games

    Media and somewhat brainless parents alike are fond of blaming computer games (I don’t the term video games – it’s too American) for…well, just about everything. If you haven’t heard arguments about how a game caused someone to go and shoot people, or fly into a rage and kill their…

  • Dragon Age: Inquisition

    Dragon Age: Inquisition

    I never expected Inquisition (see what I did?!) to be brilliant. I didn’t expect it to be BioWare back to form. And it wasn’t. But it was pretty good, and in some places very good; it was certainly a big improvement over Dragon Age II.

  • Reminiscence and Ranting Ramblings

    I was awake until about 3am thinking and ranting to myself. While Kira decides what she’s going to do next, here is a diluted version of my ramblings: Somewhere around this time in 2007, I was leaving college with a shiny HNC. Unfortunately, that was the highest qualification the college…

  • The Last Of Us

    I got The Last of Us on the day of release and I’ve been playing it since. I finished it and started again. I’m still not quite sure what to think of it. What I am sure of is that it certainly doesn’t deserve the 10/10s it’s been getting. I’ll…

  • The Next Generation

    I am going to talk (moan) about something completely unrelated to books – because I’ve never done that before… I want to talk briefly about next gen console gaming. The jump from Xbox to Xbox 360 was very exciting for me. The jump from Playstation 2 to PS3 not so…

  • Star Wars 1313: Drake’s Lawsuit

    I stayed up until 4am this morning, watching E3. I suffered through the ‘comedy’, the dancing, the acting; I picked my jaw up off the ground after watching Watch_Dogs gameplay; I sat up, ultimately, to see what Star Wars 1313 was all about. I knew it was about a bounty…