About Author: ShaunCG

Website
http://www.nostalgiaforinfinity.com
Description
Shaun is a Yorkshire-born, Brighton-dwelling socialite/recluse who has been into games since a young age, when a power-hungry co-worker hit him with an experimental laser and transmitted his avatar into a life-and-death digital arena. Fortunately the game in question was Sid Meier's Civilization and, subsequently, our hero learned a lot of fairly superficial information about mankind's history and palatial architecture. Also that there is a very narrow statistical possibility that a bronze-age Phalanx can defeat a 20th century Battleship, but only if they stand on a hill. Shaun is really bad at competitive FPS games but it's never stopped him trying, bless. He also likes RTS, RPG, 4X, TLC and TLA, but stopped short of BDSM and TMI. His other acts of bloggery can be found at Nostalgia For Infinity, where Shaun reviews records, gigs, works of fiction and occasionally posts his own short stories. In what little spare time remains he also plays in a punk band called Wrecktheplacefantastic.

Posts by ShaunCG

  • AJ, Shaun and Potter got together to drink podcast beer and share hoary tales of our favourite games of last year. Also, a special guest game gets chunks torn out of it.

    AR Podcast #7: The Best of the Best & all the Rest (2012)

    AJ, Shaun and Potter got together to drink podcast beer and share hoary tales of our favourite games of last year. Also, a special guest game gets chunks torn out of it.

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  • Because sometimes what you want from a game is to be eaten by a crocodile after dying of starvation.

    Review: Tokyo Jungle

    Because sometimes what you want from a game is to be eaten by a crocodile after dying of starvation.

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  • The truth will out.

    Review: Super Hexagon

    The truth will out.

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  • The moral of the story is: never admit to finding the Max Payne movie mildly entertaining.

    You Total Cult guest appearance

    The moral of the story is: never admit to finding the Max Payne movie mildly entertaining.

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  • I like big bots and I cannot lie.

    Mechwarrior Online

    I like big bots and I cannot lie.

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  • Non-denominational Seasonal Doubleplus Goodtime Wishes from all at Arcadian Rhythms!

    Seen in Brighton

    Non-denominational Seasonal Doubleplus Goodtime Wishes from all at Arcadian Rhythms!

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  • Guest contributor Jonathan McCalmont contrasts XCOM: Enemy Unknown with its 1990s predecessor and discusses the hysteria of the modern AAA game.

    XCOM is Not a Boss Fight

    Guest contributor Jonathan McCalmont contrasts XCOM: Enemy Unknown with its 1990s predecessor and discusses the hysteria of the modern AAA game.

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  • Drifting like a seed in the solar wind.

    Review: Eufloria

    Drifting like a seed in the solar wind.

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  • After we finished editing the XCOM special, we found there was rather a lot of material left over. This is that.

    AR Podcast #6b: The Boozey Remnants

    After we finished editing the XCOM special, we found there was rather a lot of material left over. This is that.

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  • Take one dash social exploration, one dash character study, one dash science fiction and one dash Hate. Shake, stir, serve.

    Analogue: A Hate Story

    Take one dash social exploration, one dash character study, one dash science fiction and one dash Hate. Shake, stir, serve.

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