Mat Westhorpe
Broken paramedic and coffee-drinking Englishman whose favourite dumb animal is an oxymoron.
After over a decade of humping and dumping the fat and the dead, my lower spine did things normally reserved for Rubik's cubes, bringing my career as a medical clinician to an unexpectedly early end.
Fortunately, my real passion is in writing and given that I'm now highly qualified in the art of sitting down, I have the time to pursue it. Having blogged about video games (well, mostly EVE Online) for years, I hope to channel my enjoyment of wordcraft and my hobby of gaming into one handy new career that doesn't involve other people's vomit.
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How much do today's video games owe the toymakers of yesteryear? Has this all happened before but with less silicon? How old is the oldest platform game? Read on, reflect and ruminate...
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 29, 2013
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A wild Kickstarter emerges offering Predestination fans the opportunity to build their own ships for fun and profit, or at least galactic domination.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 21, 2013
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When 3000 spaceship pilots devote an afternoon to killing each other, does everyone walk away happy? The second part of our look at how being a loser is part of EVE Online's player culture.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 20, 2013
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In a PvP universe which doesn't pull any punches, you most certainly can't win 'em all. A look at the painful losses necessary to inject a sense of risk into EVE Online.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 20, 2013
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Can Ultima Online's spiritual successor revitalise a hackneyed genre? Will Shroud of the Avatar's player-base behave themselves?
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 14, 2013
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The Grandaddy of all space sims has a spring in his step, a twinkle in his eye and fistful of missiles as the alpha test of Elite: Dangerous' combat engine gets underway.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 12, 2013
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The protracted development of CCP Games/White Wolf Publishing's unreleased vampire MMO takes another hit as the US office faces lay-offs.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 11, 2013
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EVE Online developers inflict pain on each other in order to raise cash for a good cause. It's a Viking thing.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 11, 2013
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Spare a thought (and maybe an old game or toy) for those less fortunate this Christmas. Help out your local children's ward.
Mat Westhorpe
Mat Westhorpe
Dec 11, 2013