This week saw the site turn five, I shared my thoughts in this editorial piece, but today in a change from the usual planning, we are doing Our Five Years in Games. We might do a Our Console Generation in Games next week, but this is a broader overview of the past five years. Read on, and enjoy.
The life of a small games website owner isn’t an easy one, and yet The Reticule has been going for five years now. A lot has changed with the site, and in the industry in that time, and hopefully I can do a decent job of explaining some of the pressures that influence our output here on the site in my words you can read after the break.
Chris is off this week putting the world to rights. As a result, I get the honour of ushering in yet another week of gaming here at Reticule towers. This week, I’ve been healing the sick in Surgeon Simulator 2013, Edcrab’s confusingly travelled back in time to the dystopian future of the original Deus Ex, and Kevin’s been exploring pastures new and old in Path of Exile and Mass Effect.
Geralt of Rivia, the White Wolf, is a Witcher. Witchers are warriors who possess magic powers and superior abilities due to being taken in as children and given potions and martial training for most of their young lives. This special training can cause adverse side affects and sometimes even death, the result of this is that only 40% of children survive the final trial and go on to become Witchers. Once fully trained Witchers use their unique abilities to make…
The very first episode of The Reticule’s new podcast is here. Hosted by Jordan Harling and “Nicknameless James” – The Reticule Presents Installing to Disk is a chaotic half hour of videogame news, rumours and opinions. This is the first podcast bearing The Reticule name, but Jordan and James have been casting the pods for a while now, you can find their past episodes here. In this episode of Installing to Disk the lads reflect on the release of the…
I think we can all agree that it has been quite a year for games with a heap of great titles appearing on our computers and consoles over the past twelve months. It is only fitting then that a few of us here from The Reticule share our Game of the Year lists. Hit the jump to find out what we have loved this year.
This is a bit of a personal year in review, not just a run down of individual games which have come out this year. We will do something along the lines of a Game of the Year, this isn’t that though. This is a low-down on happenings here on The Reticule over the past year, and some of my personal highlights.
A few of us here at The Reticule are heading into London town in September for the Eurogamer Expo. While we are looking forward to getting to play some great games and (hopefully) interview some legendary developers, it also gives us the chance to meet up with some of you lovely readers who will also be attending the event.
A simple Google maps search reveals hundreds of different pubs in the vicinity of Earl’s Court, this poses something of a problem for a bunch of non-Londoners (and in my case and non-Englander) so we want some recommendations of where we should meet up for drinks and such like. If we get a large group of people together, we may even look to hire a room for the evening to keep our gaming-talk away from the normal people. We are thinking about drinks on either Saturday 24th or Sunday 25th September.
Thoughts and suggestions please kind folk.
Welcome one and all to The Reticule, the newest and best PC gaming blog out there on the internet today. There are five of us here on The Reticule, Chris ‘Evo’ Evans, Greg ‘StalinsGhost’ Wild, SteveTheBlack, DuBBle and The Poisoned Sponge. If you want to find out more about the site, or more about each of us then check out the page which is all about us. That is it really, I hope you enjoy the content we write, we…