So I've been playing a lot of Spelunky lately.It's a procedurally generated, two-dimensional, side-scrolling platformer.  Except it's also a roguelike, as there are no saves, and dying deposits you right back at the start of the game. Except it doesn't, really, as the procedural generation means you're essentially at the start of a new game. ...read more!

I've been researching gender disparities within games and the games industry for a feature over here, which should be online sometime this week.  It's been a really interesting piece to write, for a few reasons.Firstly, because I'm, well, not a female.  It's something I almost didn't really want to write, because surely, a female perspective would be a significantly more sensible one from which to write such a feature. ...read more!

So we're past the year's half-way mark.  I write on the first day in a week that the sun hasn't baked everything in the vicinity to a dark brown crisp - in other words, British summer, which tends to last for a few days in early July.  The unforgiving heat having subsided enough for me to consider doing anything but lying on a bed quietly moaning, it seems a sensible time to look back across the past six months, and compile a list of the ten most interesting, noteworthy, brilliant or best-selling games from this period. ...read more!

Hello! Fancy seeing you here. So I'm going to be doing a bit of writing here at Faceoff Games, it would seem.  Currently beavering away on my first assignment, which I'm sure will appear on the site soon. A bit about me, then. I'm a freelance videogames journalist, currently operating from my home in Leeds, UK. ...read more!