An Englishman on Bornholm

Good Moves

Nope, not those sort of moves. Not the ones related to well timed button presses of deft flicks of a stick or mouse. Moves in the real world, those related to house and home. I’ve lived in the UK all my life, all 38 years plus. Linda however has never spent more than 13 years in any country having moved from Denmark to Norway to the UK. And this year would have been her fourteenth…

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Gaming Dictated

My gaming schedule of the past few months has not been of my own choosing. However far from this being due to some subversive mind control I have chosen to have my gaming dictated by the choices made of two of my favoured podcasts. Namely those being GameBurst and Cand & Rinse. We all know the joy of being swept up in the latest releases, joining in the twitter gossip and forum posts that erupt…

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My Cybernetic Future

I’ve long been an advocate for the world of Android. I’ve favoured it’s openness over the protected walled gardens of iOS since before I owned my first Android device. Then when I actually escaped from the world of mobile phones into smartphones with the Samsung Galaxy I never looked back. It may have, back then, lacked the elegance and super focused vision of Apples output, but for a PC loving geek just as myself the parallels to a user…

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Death by Trials and Limbo

In light of an upcoming Cane & Rinse on Limbo, I’m reposting my thoughts here: Failing in games has become more of a rarity in recent years. When we started out in the late 70’s you always had a life count, a number of retries before the game called time on your attempts and sent you back to the beginning. Born out of the arcades this was inevitable, however as we progressed and computers and…

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