Recent content by Tom Artingstall

Short answer: Yes. Good news is I found the link. See above.

The grand irony is that you can't view that link from the UK. <Desperately hunts through BBC's UK website for this article> EDIT: Here you go my fellow Limeys! http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140107-far-future/assets/images/far-future-timeline.png

Pretty much this. I'd throw the lot of it at NASA or the ESA or someone similar. But I'd set it up as a trust fund, paid at regular intervals on the condition that they focus on three targets: - Permanent manned presence on the Moon. - Manned missions to Mars. - Civilian applications for...

For future reference, Escapist, the Daily Mail is not a reputable source of news in Britain. It's sort of like the New York Post, in that it's 50% exaggeration, 12% truth and 38% outright lies.

So. FTL Faster Than Light. If you're unfamiliar with this game, go youtube for a Let's Play of the game. Watch five minutes. Come back. Don't worry, I'll wait. Done? Want another five minutes to go buy the game? Okay! So now that we're all on the same page, what, dear Escapists...

I'm not the only one slightly PO'd at that bit am I? "Oh no! We might upset the females if we're too violent!" The implication that female gamers are by default the casuals and that they're only interested in light-hearted games or games with female protagonists.... Urgh. This is why we can't...

Bravo, sir. Bravo. Onto the Op's point: If Bioware can have an entire SPECIES of lesbians, why not a planet of gays? It seems only fair, lest they be accused of alienating non-female homosexuals in their games.

I feel like it's been hindered by hype. I went into the game expecting an emotional rollercoaster which would leave me alternating between crippling guilt and existential terror as I contemplate the nature of my own hobby. Instead, I feel emotionally underwhelmed by a better-than-average story...

(It is my New Years resolution not to swear quite so much on the internet, with that in mind, the following is an extremely polite letter to Ubisoft) Dear Ubisoft, I recently downloaded Anno 2070, your popular strategy game. I would like to add at this point that I downloaded it legally...

Just in case anybody just read the first post and skipped to the end of the thread to post their rage: This is either a masterful piece of trolling or a man's desperate attempt to land a job in EA's PR department. I admit I had my doubts about wheteher or not this was a serious article until I...

I was surprised to find QTEs slipped very subtley and effectively into Dishonored. All it boils down to is when a guard dog jumps you it bites down on your arm and you just have to repeatedly punch it in the face before it goes for the throat. The button you have to mash is the left-hand attack...

Tortoises. All the way.

Two words. Commissar. Yarrick. On a more in-depth answer, I run two HQs in my IG regiment. Lord Castellan Creed mans my company command squad from the centre, throwing out Get Back in the Fights and First Rank Fire!'s. Commissar Yarrick rides around in a chimera full of Ogryns and serves...

His constant verbal assaults on major AAA games (and their publishers) could be construed as an attack on Capitalism itself. Then again, pointing out when someone's being a **** doesn't make you a Communist just because they have gold-plated nipple clamps in their sex dungeon.

With the recent announcement that the venerable single player franchise, The Elder Scrolls, will be joining the clammoring hordes hammering at the gates of WoW's golden palace to steal his throne, a question arises. Will we ever see a single-player TES game again? Since World of Warcraft...