“He’s bloody cracked! Push him now!” I’m bellowing into my headset at half past eleven on a Tuesday night, loud enough that I’m probably annoying the neighbors through these thin Manchester terrace walls. Can’t help myself though – we’ve been chasing a win all evening, and this might actually be our moment. My mate Dave from university days is frantically pinging enemy positions while our third, my younger brother, attempts some kind of flanking maneuver…
I remember taking a sick day from my accounting job when GTA Online launched back in October 2013. Told my…
Man, when Starfield dropped, I did something I haven’t done since the Dreamcast launch – I called in sick to…
God, the summer of ’92. I can still feel that oppressive heat wave that basically trapped me and my brother…
You know what’s funny? I can pinpoint the exact moment my high school’s social order got completely turned upside down,…
Christmas morning 1987, and I’m seven years old staring at this orange plastic gun that came with our new Nintendo.…
I’ve mentioned before that I came to gaming backwards – discovered it as an adult, then worked my way through…
The first time I tried modding a game, I destroyed my computer so thoroughly I thought I’d fried the motherboard.…
The first time someone properly murdered me in Quake multiplayer, I didn’t even know what hit me. One second I’m…
First time someone mentioned Minecraft to me was around 2013, I was working a job site downtown and this young…
