Some updates

27th Aug, 2015By Softmints

The Age of Myths review has been revisited, and now hopefully does the map justice. I've also made substantial updates to the MTQ article to improve clarity and flesh out some of the ideas.

A busy summer

2nd Jul, 2015By Softmints

Hi folks, just leaving a note to say that I've got plenty of content queued up, but have been busy with another project recently. There should be a double-feature over the next two weeks to make up for lost time.

EDIT: Circumstances have decided otherwise, it'll be ready "when it's ready" :/

A note on video content

7th May, 2015By Softmints

While writing the Tides of Blood review a few months ago, I found that screenshots simply weren't doing enough to convey the mechanics that I wanted to talk about. This led me to try recording some gifs, which turned out to be a great solution and a great way to make the material more engaging in general.

One of the things I have struggled with while writing reviews has been discussing heroes, particularly for maps where painstaking attention to hero design was a hallmark of the game. Hero design is a deep topic on which I have many opinions, and it isn't something I want to delve into in

Not Dead

22nd Jan, 2015By Softmints

I know, it's been an empty January. I've been busy with the review of Dawngate that's coming next week. It's a long one. If you want to try it out, download it free: Here. You have two weeks before the servers shut down permanently.