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27 Jun 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Elven Legacy is a pretty old game now, released in 2009 by 1C and published by Paradox Interactive. It is an unashamedly old retro style game that tries to emulate the older gamer's nostalgia for the turn based hex games like Fantasy General an...
25 Jun 2021 2 minute read 1 comment The Archivist
(Library: Book Review) How fitting for the Strawberry Moon to take a new look at Dracula. Was it a good business deal for Jonathan Harker in the end? Shedding aside the warnings about vampires, he kept his word and visited the Count Dracula. Pros Pr...
23 Jun 2021 3 minute read 3 comments The Archivist
(Book Review) The myth of the beast, of the creator's creature turning against him is exemplified in this brilliant novel by Mary Shelley. In this short review, I want to look at the main themes behind Frankenstein and the parallels we can draw to to...
21 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
An unusual review today for me, this time it is a game that is on the Android platform instead of my preferred gaming PC platform. Well, there is a reason for that... I'm looking for decent travel games for my kids to play over the summer holid...
17 Jun 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Thanks in part to the ever awesome Humble Bundle subscription that I have, I am definitely not short on games to play on the PC... in fact, I would say that I have the opposite problem, I have an embarrassingly long list of un-played and uncomp...
8 Jun 2021 6 minute read 2 comments bengy
Yesterday, I saw an announcement from the Enjin project (an old NFT gaming project) that they had managed to land their playtest of Age of Rust on the Steam storefront. Now, getting a blockchain based game into the widely used Steam store is a pre...
7 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Orwell was released in 2016 by developers Osmotic and it is an interesting experiment in storytelling in game design. It is best described as a visual novel type of game, where you are uncovering the story as you piece together clues and events...
29 May 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
I only just put out a review of the oddly satisfying PC Building Simulator in which I wrote that I did enjoy the experience in general, but was a bit disappointed by the lack of an overarching story or purpose to fixing and upgrading computers....
27 May 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
PC Building Simulator was one of these games that had caught my interest as an interesting concept, but not something that I would drop money on to try it out. Luckily, for me, it dropped in a recent Humble Bundle... and so, I would get to try out...
20 May 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (ICFR) is Dungeons and Dragons themed game set in the much revered Forgotten Realms world setting. I loved (and still love) these books, and now that I'm writing about it... I remember that I have some dig...
