Author Archives: Jack McNamee

About Jack McNamee

In the third year of a game design course in Queensland, Australia. Thinking a whole lot about games. Scrabbling desperately against the oncoming future.

Adventure-Novel Book-games

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Jack McNamee

If you’ve been around the web a bit, you’ve probably seen the recent trendy thing where video games are given covers similar to those of a classic old book series. Well, what better series of games to perform this bit … Continue reading →

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A Glance into the WORLD OF TOMORROW

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Jack McNamee

The future! Forget 2012, the Nuclear Apocalypse, Robot Uprisings, the Zombie Apocalypse and the ever-watching Totalitarian Governments for a moment- I, Jack Shandy, Gentleman Journalist, have a list of reasons the future is going to be juuuuuust fine. Well, for … Continue reading →

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WHY GAME REVIEWS SUCK An exercise in hypocrisy

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Jack McNamee

WHY GAME REVIEWS SUCK An exercise in hypocrisy. Everybody, everybody, roll on up for the hot new game everyone is talking about: Dragon Age: Origins! 8.5/10 GAMESPOT! 8.4/10 IGN! 8/10 EUROGAMER! Wow, these guys must be really unified in their … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia by Bloggs

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Jack McNamee

NOSTALGIA. I’ve had a gutful. Fallout 3’s the game that recently aroused my ire- although it’s not so much the game as the reaction to it. The whiny, unpleasable, fan-dumb reaction to it. Now, I’ve played a bit of the … Continue reading →

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