Q. Soooo, what’s this site all about then?

We are the opinionated voice of gamers. Our content focuses on editorials in which our writers are encouraged to incorporate a lot of their own views and personality. We also provide reviews and other features.

Q. Why do you not do numerical scale review scores?
This is answered here in more depth, but the short version is that review scores usually mean a lot of people disregard the text and the conclusion to how a reviewer arrived at that score. We want to put the focus back on the actual review.

Q. Why do you sometimes review games that have been out a while?
At the moment we do not receive review code or copies. We are real gamers just like you; we buy and play the games we do mostly because we want to.

If the game we review is more than a few months old, we will usually backdate it so you aren’t reading last year’s news on the front page. This is mainly so we can build up a nice back-catalogue of reviews. Rest assured we’ll be sticking to this generation of consoles, so don’t expect any reviews for ET on Atari.

Also we’ve found that it is still worth reviewing some older stuff because there are many games that go under peoples radars on release because they might not have been greatly received that well by the gaming press, but still worth a play-through at a bargain price. People don’t tend to give these games the benefit of the doubt until months and years later when they’ve dropped down in price. They will also come in handy when checking out some of Neil’s deals.

Q. Does Simon waffle on in real life as much as he does on the podcasts?
Yes.

Q. Does Andy swear as much in real life as he does on the podcasts?
Even more.

Q. Are you guys as unfunny in real life as you are in the podcasts?
You had better believe it.

Q. Where did you get the name for the site, something about it sounds familiar?
It should, it’s a play on words from a line from the Bruce Campbell classic Army of Darkness; ‘This is my boomstick’. Basically we were struggling for a name for the site, and I was watching the movie on DVD, it fell into place from there.