All Things Geeky

I enjoy going to a music gig as much as anyone, or so I thought. I’m not sure I would go as far as the characters in Studio Whisky Tango’s ultra-violent top down car battling roguelike game Death Skidmarkshowever. On the other hand, our roads don’t seem quite as perilous as the route they decide to travel down, the hellishly named Route 666, along which they need to travel 666km to get to their…

Expedition To The Mountains of the Moon Book Review

Expedition To The Mountains of the Moon is book number three in Mark Hodder’s Burton and Swinburne series, so as in my last review, I am beginning with the advice to start at book number one, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, my review of which you can find here. The three books are very much linked so unless you start at number one, you won’t get the best reading experience. Anyway, on…

ReTrak Retractable 1080p HDMI Cable Multi Pack Review

Watching something on the small screen that is built into a gadget such as a smartphone or camcorder is all well and good but nothing really matches the enjoyment of seeing something on a larger screen. True, not every device will have an HDMI output, but those that do would be very well serviced by another one of ReTrak’s retractable cable solutions: the ReTrak Retractable 1080p HDMI Cable Multi…

Gremlins Inc. Digital Board Game Will Launch in September

If you are a fan of steampunk worlds and conniving capitalist exploitation, you would do well to check out digital board game Gremlins Inc.which will be releasing as a feature-complete beta in September. From indie developer Charlie Oscar, it is the brainchild of Alexey Bokulev and Sergei Klimov who got together and wanted to develop an original turn-based multiplayer game for PC that channelled…

Reflect On The Life of A Dying Man with In Between

I always get quite excited when a game decides to tackle a thorny or hard to take issue, the next bad guy shooter seemingly never further than a few games away. Gentlymad’s PC platformer In Between doesn’t bury its head in the sand by opting for an easy topic; it looks at the life of a man dying of cancer. Heavy stuff.

In Betweensees the player trying to solve puzzles by using your character’s…

The past is something that is almost impossible to get away from, the only true remedy is to do things right in the present so that the past is pretty much full of good things. That might not be entirely realistic, but after watching The Gift, I’d imagine a fair few cinema goers will be mentally glancing back over their timelines to see if there is any fodder for the kind of happenings that take…

Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night Review

Chainsaw Warrior originally saw light as a solo board-game in 1987 and was published by Games Workshop. Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night is the follow on to Auroch Digital’s first conversion of the game to digital format in the form of Chainsaw Warrior that emerged in autumn 2013. I must admit to having very little knowledge of Chainsaw Warrior but hopefully this means that I have come to…

Hydraulic Empire is a PC tower defense game from Solitude Entertainment that sets the action in a steampunk world, a world in which mob interaction is very much the order of the day. On top of the usual flood of mobs as they wend their way through the player’s traps and defenses, Hydraulic Empirehas various mobs that can interact with each other. You still get the lowly cannon fodder ones that…

Keep the Underground Clear in Overcrowd

It’s hard to open a newspaper or check out a news website without seeing some story on the state of the UK transport system. Whether it’s delays because of power issues or works over-running, the picture is often one of bleak annoyance and replacement bus services. If you think you could do better, you might be interested in Overcrowd, a new PC game from Squareplay Games that is currently looking…

Runescape Throwback; mithril, mining & bullying ‘noobs’

We all remember the good days. Caring for only enough time to get up in the morning to indulge in a beastly few hours of Runescape before heading off to a tiresome day at school. (That is if your steam-engined, black and white box of a PC started up in time). Oh how the days were simple and filled with adventure on a pixelated screen the size of a piece of bread. You could never make out the…

Xbox One Controller with “Sticker Bomb” Design from Controller Modz

Controller Modz is a company that offers almost twenty controller modifications to their customers- in addition to a “Build Your Own” feature that lets you create your own design. This is a rather expensive service, but the company promises that each controller will be professionally designed. So, how do they stack up against the other companies in their niche? This review of the “Sticker Bomb”…

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Review

Mission: Impossible as a franchise seems like it has been going on for ages, first as the TV series and then as the Tom Cruise fronted blockbuster series. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is the fifth Mission: Impossible film, and with it, brings the usual host of familiar faces and big stunt scenes that soon became the hallmark of what makes the series so interesting to watch.

Mission:…

Take 3D Pictures on your Smartphone with Bevel

There is something innately geeky about wanting to take a 3D picture and playing around with it afterwards, maybe imagining the photographic subject is beginning to feel nauseous as you rotate them faster and faster. While we aren’t quite at the technology level seen in some of the best sci-fi films, Matter And Form Inc. is taking us a step nearer with its neat little Bevel gizmo and it is…

If you have a hankering for strapping yourself into a giant flying mech and unleashing a variety of awesome weaponry at your enemies, GameCrafterTeam’s Early Access PC game Project Nimbusis well worth a look. This isn’t the lumbering metal behemoth type of mech game though, these mechs, or “BattleFrames” as they are referred to in-game are agile to say the least. As with most games, there is a…

The Curious Case of The Clockwork Man Book Review

The Curious Case of The Clockwork Man is the second book in Mark Hodder’s Burton and Swinburne series and sees things carry very much on from the events of book one: The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, of which you can read my review here. As a consequence, this review will probably be quite spoilerific with relation to the events in the first book so I recommend reading that first if at…

Pokemon Ancient Origins Pre-Release 2015 Event

Callum and myself had the privilege of attending an Ancient Origins Pokémon Pre-Release at Patriot Games in Leeds, United Kingdom. This was my first Pokemon event so I didn’t know what to expect. Tweeting my way through the day I received great feedback from our Twitterfollowers as I pulled a Lugia EX in my first booster pack. Callum didn’t have the same luck as I did. Pulling absolutely nothing…

Ant-Man always had an uphill battle with me, as from the first moment I saw the trailer, I felt it wasn’t a film that I would be particularly interested in. Well, due to a traffic issue on route to see another film, circumstance presented me with the chance to see Ant-Man, and I did. I am quite happy to say that it turned out to be a better film than I had hoped, although I still have a few…