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Simon Hill
Bio: I'm addicted to gaming and have been since I was a wee boy. Worked in the industry as a tester, designer and producer. I'm now a full time freelance writer and editor.
Top Ten FPS Games of All Time
The first-person shooter genre is massively popular and has a huge and loyal fan base committed to spending hours in virtual environments blowing each other to smithereens. There’s nothing quite…
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Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword Out Now
Posted on 05/05/2011 | No CommentsI loved Mount & Blade, sure it’s rough around the edges but it’s so damn addictive and the good news is the new installment is out now. I’m not sure how... -
Civ V Tips: How do you use the culture bomb in Civ 5?
Posted on 03/05/2011 | No CommentsThe culture bomb in Civ V is one of the weirdest options at your disposal. If you’re going for a cultural victory then you’ll likely spawn some Great Artists in... -
L.A. Noire
Posted on 02/05/2011 | 2 CommentsHow about a 40s crime thriller set in Los Angeles? L.A. Noire hits PS3 and Xbox 360 in a couple of weeks. A spot of detective fiction with a noir... -
Call of the Dead
Posted on 02/05/2011 | No CommentsIs CoD an ailing franchise? I think probably not but as I’ve said before there’s nothing that can’t be improved with a liberal sprinkling of zombies. Enter the new DLC... -
PSN Breach
Posted on 28/04/2011 | No CommentsSo Sony is seriously under fire after the PlayStation Network breach. With 75 million users the prospect that personal data including names, email addresses, postal addresses, birthdays, user names and... -
Turn-Based Strategy and Boring End Games
Posted on 25/04/2011 | No CommentsI’ve been thinking recently about one of the major flaws in turn-based strategy games – the end game. How often have you reached a critical point in an epic game... -
Winning Strategy or Negative Exploitation?
Posted on 06/04/2011 | No CommentsSo which is it? When you find what is essentially an exploit in a game is it wrong, or negative to exploit it? Or is it natural evolution, picking a... -
Zombies and Total War
Posted on 30/03/2011 | No CommentsAfter a busy couple of months I’ve been gaming more again. The current addiction is Shogun 2: Total War, predictably enough. Here’s my Shogun 2: Total War review and I... -
Shogun 2: Total War
Posted on 20/12/2010 | No CommentsLooks like the Total War series is going back to its roots with a remake of Shogun. Should be awesome. The AI appears to be much improved, check out this... -
Games Based on TV Shows
Posted on 08/12/2010 | 2 CommentsIf you’re buying gifts this Christmas and you like to go for the recognition purchase, y’know, “such and such likes that show/film/thing I’ll get them a distantly related book/board game/video...