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Batman: Arkham City: Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC: This Title Needs More Colons
Harley Quinn’s Revenge is a short and slightly unsatisfying return to Arkham City. Contains ***SPOILERS*** Continue reading
2012: Your Year in Gaming Misogyny
In 2011 it looked a little bit like the gap in attitudes about women in gaming had started to close. Thank god 2012 came along and showed that the No Girls Allowed Club was still alive and kicking in video games. Continue reading
The Unplayed Gaming List – January 2012
Xmas has come and gone. The Xmas and post-Xmas sales have come and gone. Time to update the unplayed gaming list. Dispatched Bayonetta (X360): Finished this on Normal difficulty, started again on the next harder difficulty and have shelved the game after running into a roadblock at a particular Alfheim Portal. Might come back to … Continue reading
What Proportion of Games Actually Get Completed By Players?
One area I’ve been curious on for a while is what proportion of players actually complete the games they play. A lot of attention gets put on games about how their narrative sophistication is evolving and how players love playing for the story they uncover, but all of that is so much puffery if the … Continue reading
Bitching About Odd Narrative Things In Batman: Arkham City
I completed Batman: Arkham City (B:AC) recently, including the Catwoman DLC narrative content. There’s been a bit of controversy about the game’s narrative, but I wanted to experience things first hand before commenting on them (which is unusual on the internet, I know, and I promise it won’t become a trend). There will be SPOILERS … Continue reading
Baby Got Cat – Batman: Arkham City’s DLC Follow-Up
It took about three days, mostly due to time differences, but I received a working Catwoman DLC code from Chris Z. at Warner Brothers Support. So thank you, Chris Z. I’ll do a longer post on Batman: Arkham City at some point after I’ve finished it. It’s a fun game with an odd narrative tone … Continue reading
The Trouble With Cats – Batman: Arkham City’s DLC Issue
Having won some money on the sweeps from the Melbourne Cup, I went off and bought a copy of Batman: Arkham City. I was fully aware that a new copy of Batman: Arkham City came with a code that unlocked the Catwoman sections to play through. I enter the code fresh from the box. “This … Continue reading
The Unplayed Gaming List – October 2011
2011 has been a hell of a year for games. Despite calls from some circles that gaming today is awful and in the decline, when I look around I see a lot of strong gaming titles out (and coming out) that I want to find time to play. Hence: this list, to remind me at … Continue reading
World Class Villains 