Author Archives: Tom Hatfield

Drive Me Closer – Dawn of War 2: Retribution

Q: “When is an expansion pack not an expansion pack?” A: “When it is bigger than the game that spawned…

Fixing Games – Diversity

Can you really roll a dice to pick the race of your new character? Tom Hatfield says yes and provides a system for doing so.

GOTY – Tom

Mass Effect 2 In any other year I might have had a hard time deciding exactly what to pick for…

Big Iron on my Hip – Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is in many ways a very different Fallout game. It moves the winning blend of fifties retro…

Bill! Bill! Biiiiiillllll!!!!! – The Sacrifice

If you read any gaming blog other than Gaming Daily (although honestly, why would you?) You’ve probably noticed that Left4Dead…

X-Com Diary – First Blood?

Sorry for the delay, but it’s been a while since anything really happened in my X-Com game. Well I say…

Great Game Endings

Due to technical issues I’m afraid the only screenshot you’re getting is my generic Mass Effect 2 pic. Sorry. I’m…

X-Com Diary – My Spandex Will Protect Me

Through some quirk of the game engine, February always seems to be a quiet month in X-Com, for me anyway….

X-Com Diary – Terror Down Under

Hello and welcome to the fourth instalment in Gaming Daily’s attempt to save the world! We’ve now made it to…

X-Com Diary – Arms Dealing for Fun and Profit

As you may recall from last time, we had just finished our first engagement with the aliens and defeated them…

Dawn of War Speculation

A wise man once said; “Good writers steal from other writers, great writers steal outright”. Right, rationalisation out of the…

Awesome Soccer World 2010

Historically football games come in two flavours. The expensive, licensed, graphics heavy and feature laden behemoths that are Fifa and…

X-Com Diary – First Contact

This is the second ‘guide heavy’ part of this X-Com diary. Last week I taught you how to use the…

X-Com Diary – Initial Setup

X-Com: UFO Defence, or UFO Unknown, is often held up as one of the real ‘classics’ of PC gaming. Released…

Superhero Games – Some Ideas

Recently I’ve been thinking about Batman: Arkham Asylum. Rocksteady’s stealthy facepuncher sim was last year’s dark horse game, it came…

Alien Breed: Impact

Alien Breed: Impact, is a remake of Team 17 (who you’ll probably remember as the makers of Worms) 1991 game…

On Writing

Mass Effect 2. Some of the best writing games writing around. Talking about writing is one of the hardest things…

GD Bloodbowl League 2 – Week 2

Sorry about the delay lads, but our Bloodbowl league is still going, and the results from the first round of…

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