More Posts By Peter
Review: Brass Empire – Rock Manor Games
This steampunk-themed deck builder sees players compete for the services of the best employees and the most powerful blueprints in a battle for the pile of brass coins in the centre!
Review: KliFi – Adriaan van Dis
In a future Netherlands, the government is controlled by climate denying populists, and Jákob Hemmelbahn witnesses the result of the government’s negligence when a storm washes away the houses of the less fortunate.
Review: Primordia – Wormwood Studios
Primordia is an atmospheric point-and-click-game that follows the journey of the android Horatio Nullbuilt and his sidekick Crispin across a post-apocalyptic wasteland following the theft of their ship’s power core.
Review: Baldur’s Gate/Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition – BioWare
BioWare’s classic role-playing game Baldur’s Gate, which came out in 1998, is one of the games that laid the groundwork for the rich fantasy gaming environment that we are privileged to experience today.
Review: Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Part three of the Foundation Series – Both the Mule and the Foundation go on a search for the Second Foundation, a mysterious organisation supposedly existing at the other end of the galaxy.
Review: Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
Part two of the Foundation Series – As the Foundation’s influence grows, the sights of the dying Galactic Empire finally turn to Terminus itself…
Review: Foundation – Isaac Asimov
First part of the Foundation Series – The scholars of the Foundation try to prevent a long dark age after the fall of the Galactic Empire guided by psychohistorical statistical predictions of future events.
Review: Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Wade is slingshotted from a poor kid to an online hero when he is the first to beat the initial step in a hunt to control the virtual reality video game that public life depends on in this post-apocalyptic world.
Review: The Martian – Andy Weir
NASA Astronaut Mark Watney was only supposed to be on Mars for 31 days. When a dust storm almost kills him, the rest of the crew leaves – under the impression that their colleague is actually dead…
Review: A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
Part one of the Teixcalaan Duology – Mahit Dzmar, ambassador of a small space station to an interplanetary empire, is sucked into the politics and poetry of the court when she investigates the disappearance of her predecessor.
Review: Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard’s TGC based in its Warcraft universe introduced thousands to card games and pushes the boundaries of the genre by taking full advantage of its digital medium.
Review: Profeet van de Duivel/Devil’s Prophet – Adrian Stone
Part one of the Devil Trilogy – Marak, a talented acolyte, is saved from the cult of an evil god, but must overcome prejudice and heritage to find a place in a society that spurns him.