Those who have read Confessions of a Gentleman Arachnid will be aware that the narrator, Mr Milligan Clodthorpe, is quite the expert in Human Studies.  Subsequently the Human Studies Department at University of Oxenfurt (Ceres & Vesta Campus) have provided the following quiz to accompany the work and clarify a few of Mr Clodthorpes more…

1)     The Witcher 3 Yes. Last year, Dragon Age: Inquisition came out. A year later, The Witcher 3 really showed Bioware how it should have been done. The Witcher games have always flirted with greatness but never quite reached it. The Witcher 3, though, was stunning. The mechanics, design and story were all first rate.…

I love television in the way I used to love films. I find there are way more interesting things you can do with the longer format of television than there is with 90-120 minutes of film. This year has been a pretty good year for Television, even if several previously great shows had extremely disappointing…

So I want to talk about tension and predictability using the Chronicles Of St Mary’s series as a set of examples. For those that haven’t read it, Chronicles is a series of time travel novels. There are historians who go back in time and witness historical events. There are fun characters and cartoonish antagonists and a series of…