Six months or more ago, I kicked up a bit of a fuss about the fact that I couldn’t change the region of my Xbox Live account despite the fact that I now legitimately lived in another country. This disadvantaged me in a number of ways, such as locking me out of content that wasn’t available...

May 1st marked one year since Jen and I touched down in Seattle with only three suitcases each and uncertain futures. It doesn’t feel like we’ve been here a year already – experienced a whole year living in Seattle – and yet it feels like far more than a year since we...

One of the most-visited pages on this site is a post published back in August of 2011 entitled It’s software, not price, behind the 3DS’ failure. In it, I argued that the handheld console’s poor performance was not due – as many others claimed – to an unreasonable asking price but,...

Today I amended the bio in my Twitter profile. The reason for this is due to something that’s been gnawing away at me, increasingly, for months now. And the reality of the situation is something that’s been difficult for me to accept. It used to read “Freelance video-game, tech and music...

A couple of people pointed out to me today that I haven’t updated this thing in a while. They’re quite right – it’s been a few months, and a lot has happened since I last wrote. After all, I wrote my last entry from Seattle airport as I waited to board a flight to Thailand via...

It’s almost midnight as I type this, and I’m at Sea-Tac Airport. In just over two hours, I’m headed to Taipei, with a final destination of Bangkok, Thailand, where I’m meeting up with most of my immediate family from New Zealand (my dad excepted). They’re already...

I’ve finally finished it, but I’m not going to comprehensively review Resident Evil 6. I’ve read far, far too many reviews before and during my slog through this game that I fear I can’t contribute an untainted opinion. But as a fan of the franchise, I still have something to say. I...

With video games being a relatively young medium, a bunch of our favorite classics have recently reached their 25th-anniversary milestones. It seems that the notorious arcade beat-‘em-up Double Dragon is but the latest of these, and it’s celebrated with the release of Double Dragon: Neon...

A while back, shortly before E3 2012, I wrote about why I was beginning to get excited about the prospect of the Wii U. At that point, it was still something of an enigma, and what we did know about it pointed to some promise. However, most of the major gaps in our understanding of the console...

Last weekend could have been agonizing. Something I had always looked forward to about this relocation to Seattle was that it’s the home of the famous Penny Arcade Expo: the public gaming expo run by the team at Penny Arcade. The problem is, this three-day expo is so overwhelmingly...