Off My Mind

You know a game is old when you genuinely cannot remember the last time you played it. A safe bet would have been before Bioshock 2 came out which puts it close to 12 years ago but I’m not sure I actually replayed it before the sequel came out. I don’t know if it’s just the pace that life moves at in this day and age but I still consider Bioshock to be a somewhat recent release. Which makes very little sense because you could measure that time frame in console generations. That feeling is one I often find you experience when a game still feels like it holds its place even when playing it several years later. You think to yourself; “really, this game came out that long ago?” and in Bioshock’s case I certainly felt that both while playing it and once the credits rolled. It’s a game that certainly has a huge reputation and it did not disappoint upon revisiting. If anything I would say time has only benefited this game. The star of Bioshock for me has always been the setting, Rapture is on...

It has certainly been a while since I put anything up on here. There are many reasons for that, main ones being the focus on YouTube and Twitch I have had over the last two years but now feels like the right time to get back to writing more. If you have been following me recently you know that I used to work in the games coverage business, I don’t use the phrase games journalism as it carries quite a lot of baggage these days. I wrote for a website that used to be called PlayerAffinity.com which was then later rebranded as EntertainmentFuse.com after I left. I worked there for a little over 3 years and even though it wasn’t a paid position I genuinely loved doing it. I wrote mainly features and reviews for the first year or so and eventually became a lead for the console department. I won’t go super in depth on this as I did a whole podcast covering this which is below if you would like to know more.    As you can imagine I used to love to write about the video ga...