The Ghost without a Shell

  Weird is a subjective concept, because you can go from the game that plays the strangest, to the weirdest idea of how a game is pl...

There are a number of interesting ideas in games today, and often the most interesting and long lived games are the ones about subjects ...

It has to be said that if certain games had arrived from Kickstarter when they should have done, then my response would most likely have...

  So, at the end of every convention, I like to take a look at what worked well, what didn’t, and what can be done to improve it for t...

There’s a theory that games don’t need to have millions of rules to be complicated, and that the simplest games can often have the gre...

It wasn’t rare years ago to pick up a game that you liked the look of, take a glance at it, play it the once, and then decide you weren...

So, spent most of the day travelling down to London, and while it’s not normally a journey that takes the whole day, had to drop into Sheff...

Difficult one this one, because when you’ve been playing games as long as I have, you’ve played a lot of games, and to find one that s...

I had a short want list when I went to Essen, and I didn’t know enough about the convention to abandon the booth at the first chance on...

Being a single parent for a good number of years puts a bit of a lock (to say the least) on the amount of money you have to spend on ga...

Following on from the first game I played, which was a very long time ago, it took me some time before I figured that other people might...

  I started playing games young, there wasn’t much on TV (and to be fair, you had to have a TV in the first place to watch it, which ...

I’ve got a few interests in life, one of them that not everyone knows about is fast cars, and to be honest, my first introduction to t...

Back in August, Dave Chapman ( http://autocratik.blogspot.co.uk/ ) posted a set of questions about roleplaying games, designed to get p...