10.13.07
work highlights
I had vaguely planned, at the outset, to use this blog as a “workblog” - collecting together all the stuff which is published with my name on it, if only to make life easier for very bored stalkers. Things haven’t quite gone according to plan on that front, so instead of regaling you with post after post of links, I’ll probably do small digest posts every now and then for those who perversely wish to hang off my every word.I’ve reviewed a number of rather good things recently; highlights since the Infamous Halo 3 Review include Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Eternal Sonata and Final Fantasy Tactics. FFT is certainly the best game of the three, but Eternal Sonata is a firm favourite, if only because any game that can be summarised by the line “Frederic Chopin takes on peculiar monsters in a music-themed fantasy world” is a game to be cherished.If commentaries on the games industry are more to your taste, I’ve also recently questioned Microsoft’s attempts to make Halo 3 look like a mainstream entertainment product, mused on the future of independent development in the UK following a spate of high-profile buyouts, paused to consider the new challenges Nintendo faces thanks to its meteoric rise on the Japanese stock market, and been deeply, deeply unimpressed by Sony’s new 40GB PS3.Outside of games, well… Admittedly, outside of games much of what I’ve been working on is PR and marketing copy, which is soul-less and occasionally glows with an evil more normally associated with the Elder Gods, but which does pay very well.However, if you’re a fan of words on pulped trees, you should look out for the next SFX Total Anime, for which I wrote a couple of reviews - or the forthcoming issue of NEO Magazine, for which I had the pleasure of writing the cover feature, about the Japanese phenomenon that is Gundam. I was a bit worried about how the latter feature was turning out at one point, but I think the end result is something fairly interesting and possibly even insightful. Crikey.
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