Ouya, just a little bit. Ouya, a little bit more.

Now I’m not an avid follower of kickstarter. Being someone with no money himself it’s easy to not be drawn into such endeavours. However whenever something catches the collective eye of the community, it’s usually something worth paying attention to. If you haven’t heard of Ouya by now, then get the fuck out from under your rock and start taking notes. Ouya is a fully fledged games console, with all the nuts and bolts, running Android and literally begging you to hack it and make some cool stuff for it. Sounds like it’d be an absolute flop, I probably would have agreed with you, but people want this thing, not just because of the hardware, but because of the message that comes with it, indie is good.

Let’s face it, the vast majority of the most innovative and creative games to have been released over the past two to three years have been indie games and games from smaller developers; the same time scale has also seen the rise of the free to play game, shaking up long established beliefs over the nature of the games consoles and big titles. Such innovation and adaptability, combined with a platform that encourages and supports it and who knows what would come of it... it’s like leaving a kid who’s got too much time on his hands with a copy of Minecraft.

Hardly A Game Review: Section 8: Prejudice

Droppings

I’ve come to the conclusion that I do a lot of writing. Last week I wrote a 2500 word essay on a subject I knew next to nothing about 24 hours previously. This weeks, I’m looking at writing 3000 words for Tuesday so I have the opportunity to get it reviewed before I go on and write 10000 words for the end of the month... I’ve also come to the conclusion that I take these things very close to the wire. So in the grand tradition of procrastinating, I decided that instead of using the dregs of this evening to construct something meaningful, I’d write 800 words on something completely meaningless and give you another Hardly a Review! I know what you’re thinking, and yes, you are a lucky bunch.

Last time I wrote a review I decided to deliberately seek out something I’d probably dislike, so I could rant about it (I always find my anger to be far more entertaining than my unyielding praise). However, this time around, mainly because I haven’t prepared for this at all, I decided just to pick a game I’ve been playing a lot over the past couple of days. So here is my review on Section 8: Prejudice.