Games
Dragon Age coming into focus
After suffering at the hands of the strangest marketing campaign for many a year, Bioware’s forthcoming RPG Dragon Age takes a big step in the right direction with the free Journeys. (more…)
Writing
At the final count: 159,803 words & 471 pages
My claims of “first draft compete!” earlier this week were slightly premature. Since then I’ve done some additional fiddling and formatting and only NOW have a proper first draft. Quite a respectable length, really – about 25,000 words short of Dune. Whether the quality is worth speaking about remains to […]
Writing
158,380 words. 425 pages. 1st draft complete.
A handful of minutes ago I complete the first draft of Evinden, the novel I’ve been working on for the last nine-or-so years (about six of which involved the main writing part). It’s taken me far longer than it should have and there’s still work to be done to fill […]
Games
The Best Game Developer Ever
Having played the superb Batman: Arkham Asylum through to completion recently, I couldn’t help but wonder: Why can’t all games be like this? (more…)
Filmmaking
149,566 – War! What is it good for?
Well, it’s good for exciting finales, for a start. But I’d better say no more for fear of dropping too many spoilers. Hard to find time to write the last few weeks, what witha combination of House Moving Stuff, podcasting and Batman: Arkham Asylum (the compulsion is waning, though, so […]
Travels
145,556 – New house, same book
Soooo, been busy. Just moved house, you see, across the city to a lovely detached place in which I can finally unleash full volume surround sound without causing aural bodily harm to the neighbours. Bliss! Despite this I’ve managed to scrounge a few moments here and there to write some […]
Writing
Dollhouse season 1
We finished the first season of Dollhouse last night, with the vaguely legendary Epitaph One episode that inexplicably wasn’t aired in the States and was only shown over there on the DVD release. Thankfully Virgin here in the UK showed the whole lot. My concluding thoughts were that it’s now […]
Games
Batman Arkham Asylum video preview
The new Batman Arkham asylum demo is out and we took a closer look at it. (more…)
Writing
Day off! With lots to do, of course…
I’ve got the day off! Which is rather exciting. I’ve taken this Friday and the next off specifically to work on my book. If I really knuckle down I think I’ve got a good chance of finishing a first draft. Got a million other things to get done as well, […]