Jim Franklin

If you’re somewhere around Texas at the start of 2015 you might want to drop into PAX South, the latest festival brainchild of Reedpop and Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade is one of the largest communities of gamers you can find…

The Elder Scrolls online beta test, probably one of the last ones there’ll be for ESO, seeing as it’s released at the start of April, took place last weekend. Though I didn’t really take part in this one, I’ve taken…

Are you a fan of rhythm games? I’m very much on the musical fence. Like every other video game genre there are those that are done well, like the guitar hero franchise and those that we’re not done so well,…

You may remember that a few weeks ago I wrote this Galaxy Run review post, a mobile runner game for the iOS. Sorry all you Android owners, its only iOS at the moment. Anyway, the point being, the developers behind…

Today’s pressure related topic for NaBloPoMo is about whether peer pressure can be positive, and once more I refer to the Wikipedia definition . “Peer pressure is influence that a peer group, observers or individual exerts that encourages others to…

I’ve been looking over today’s NaBloPoMo prompt for a time now. I expected inspiration to run up and head-butt me on the nose and shout at me some magic words of inspiration that I could write this post about. No…

Today’s NaBloPoMo prompt is. “Tell us about a time you bent to peer pressure” I can’t think of any better example than the first time I smoked a cigarette. “Peer pressure, the influence that a peer group, observers or individual…

This month is NaBloPoMo or National Blog Posting Month. Though, unlike the novel-writing a similar name, NaBloPoMo seems to happen every month. My blog posting has been down recently, and NaBloPoMo may just be the way to increase the number…

It’s customary at the turning of the New Year to look back and reflect on the previous year; look at what went well and what didn’t go so well and make some sort of plan for the upcoming year. In…