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Review: The Ultramarines Omnibus (Paperback)
I’d always been a little wary of the Warhammer franchise – to me, it always seemed to be focused around a pretty insular group of tabletop gaming nerds, and almost impenetrable, by the length and breadth of the lore, to the layman such as I. However, casting those stereotypes and preconceptions aside, I happily accepted…
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Review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PC/Steam)
After taking about nine months to finish my first proper XCOM run-through, I finally feel ready to express how I felt about Firaxis’ re-interpretation of a storied PC gaming classic. But why did XCOM take me 9 months to complete, firstly? Fair to say, the original XCOM games hold a lot of nostalgia points, and…
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Review: A Calculated Life (Kindle Edition)
I’m finding it hard to quite distil what A Calculated Life is actually about without constant referrals to the Amazon blurb. There’s a lot of hints from what I’ve read so far – about a dystopian police state with a “compliant population free of addictions”; very Orwellian, with a tinge of I, Robot, with genetically-engineered…
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