A whole new decade is upon us! 2020 is going to see the release of the next generation of consoles, and no dooubt the improvement of the “games as a service” model (Stadia, XCloud etc). Fantastic, right?! Well, yeah. But that’s potentially a lot of money, and honestly, a lot of time that I’m not […]
Tag: Blog
Keeping up with coffee and games
The past month has seen quite a drop in me creating and publishing posts. Not so much because I have nothing to write about, but because I’m struggling for time at the minute. Coffee is being drunk, games are being played, but I’m not getting it all up here. With four or five half-written pieces […]
Blog: Gaming on a budget
Gaming is a great hobby, with so much variety and breadth. Niche titles, global communities and hundreds of ways to buy them all. The thing is, it can be a pretty expensive past time, too! It’s all well and good having a console or PC, but those games and subscriptions for online services ain’t free. […]
Trust in YouTube
Being any kind of gamer can often mean looking for guides or reviews, or perhaps even lore. Now, the quantity of content available to us on YouTube is phenomenal. Every game-related question you have is likely to be answered here. Long-gone are the days where I’d go to the nearest newsagents and read through Amiga […]
The Gold Standard – 2018
2018 has been a pretty great year for Ninja Refinery, but better still for gaming in general. Of course, it’s the end of the year and everyone feels obliged to create “best of” lists and rate everything, usually in a ranked list. To hell with that though. Ninja Refinery doesn’t believe in scores and rankings. […]
The most satisfying “touches” in gaming over the past few years
We mostly play games for fun, right? To attain a certain level of satisfaction. Whether that’s achieving something (solving a puzzle, getting that last shot in to take someone down with you, seeing the conclusion of a story you’ve clung to from day one etc). Beyond these almost “expected” satisfactions, though, are arguably the deeper, […]
Fighting that “new game” compulsion
Gaming is without a doubt my favourite hobby, alongside writing on here, playing guitar, drinking coffee etc. The problem is, no matter what I’m doing, I’m almost always considering what’s next, and never fully “in the moment” as it were. Sure I get immersed, but then I have to return to real life and I […]
Unfinished Business
Sometimes you just can’t find the time, nor the will to see something through. Never watched all of that classic film? Didn’t finish that play through of a game that everyone raves about? That killer Netflix series that you just stopped watching half-way through? We’ve all done it, and I think it’s ok. This is […]
Blog: Looking backwards to move forwards
Here’s the thing. I’m trying to calm the hell down on my almost ADHD levels of moving from game to game to game, for the sake of having something to write about. Of course, the only pressure comes from me, and well, it doesn’t need to. Judging by the stats, it’s not like hundreds of […]
Blog: Sometimes you need the grind
The past month has been pretty hectic, trying to maintain a level of frequent/readable content, working full-time in a job that is really starting to need more of my time, trying to be a husband (I’m not particularly good at this one) and study a degree part-time…….you get the picture. Everything was becoming a grind, […]