Recent content by Max Pritchard

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Mechwarrior Online yet. It's in Open Beta - anyone can download and give it a try. It's quite simple - each match is only 5-6 minutes - great to drop in, lose yourself for a bit, and then drop out.

I think that the RPG is irrelevant to the question. The issue is how alcohol mixes with a social gathering with your friends (or people you know). For most, I expect, drinking is just fine - but drunkenness less so, depending on how bad the drunken behaviour is. The three reasons the blog...

I can't help but think that this story was already done to great effect in Kurt Busiek's Astro City - with a romantic date between Samaritan and Winged Victory. It worked because it contrasted a small-scale intimate question of relationship between man (alien) and woman with the action-epic...

I will buy a next generation console if my friends do. And.. that's about it. There are few games that would entice me to splash out on hardware.