I joined Ready Up as one of the founding members in 2007, producing blogs and reviews for the site. Over time, my role evolved and I found myself taking ownership of the Xbox Live Arcade titles released weekly which, eventually, became an official role.
Shortly after that, I was awarded the role of Deputy Editor and, as well as the XBLA reviews, my job included ensuring that we always had content to go live on the site and that each of the writers was up-to-date with their monthly contributions. I remained in this role until shortly before my departure in 2012.
I am currently collecting everything I wrote for the site (five years of blogs and reviews) – or as much as I can – here for posterity.
The entries in red are currently lost in the ether.
Blogs
- Life On Mars
- The Skyrim Diaries: We Need To Talk About Lydia
- The Skyrim Diaries
- Soul Salvation
- Games In A Nutshell II
- Tree of Knowledge
- Oh, Elena…
- PlayStation Notwork
- Leg Godt
- Your Country Needs You!
- I Always Preferred Giant Haystacks, Myself
- The Seven Year Itch
- My Head Is Spinning
- Wolves, The Various Uses Of
- Nier, Far, Wherever You Are… I Know That The Game Will Go On
- Lording it up
- Get Off Of Your Horse And Drink Your Milk
- Tweeting The Bike Fantastic
- Games In A Nutshell
- Disgaea Days
- Danger Is His… Surname?
- All Aboard For Little Riddle
- Gnome On The Range
- Heightened Feelings
- Buried Treasure
- Orbsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Hammer Time
- Walk Forward, Walk Forward, Stop
- To The Citizens of Alpoko
- Elastic Bands – Not Just For Elastically Banding Things
- Left 4 Dead…
- Twenty-Four Minutes On Burnout Paradise
- Peggle Positions
- Videogames Killed The Map-Making Star
- The Scores On The Doors
- An Obituary
- Bits And Pieces
- And They Called It Buggy Love
- The Last Enchanted Infinite Dragon Odyssey Of Lost Blue Remnant Arms Undiscovery
- OMG, NXE OCD!
- Teams, You Have One Hour Of Tinkering Time
- Fabled Achievements
- I Swear, It’s Just A Game
- By Grabthar’s Hammer
- Did I Also Mention It Travels In Time?
- Night At The Museum
- Build Me Up, Buttercup
- Short Arms, Long Pockets
- Mind The Gap
- Fit To Drop
- Back To Black
- We Play Games…
- Insert Coin
- Kengo Zero? Kengo No Clue, More Like…
- Hooray For Ebay
- “I’m Not A Gamer…”
Reviews
- Hardboiled Chicken
- Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
- White Knight Chronicles II
- Yars’ Revenge
- Yoostar 2
- Bejeweled Blitz Live
- Two Worlds II
- LittleBigPlanet 2
- Bugged
- The Shoot
- John Daly’s ProStroke Golf
- Front Mission Evolved
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
- Plants Vs Zombies
- Snark Busters: Welcome To The Club
- Limbo
- The Silver Lining – Episode 1: What Is Decreed Must Be
- Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – Episode 3: They Stole Max’s Brain
- Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Joe Danger
- Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
- Doctor Who: The Adventure Games – City of the Daleks
- Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – Episode 1: The Penal Zone
- Blue Toad Murder Files: Episodes 4-6
- Clover: A Curious Tale
- White Knight Chronicles
- Lazy Raiders
- Blue Toad Murder Files – Episode 3
- Aliens Vs Predator
- The Misadventures of P.B Winterbottom
- Mole Control
- KrissX
- Mass Effect 2
- Alien Breed Evolution – Episode 1
- Hyperballoid HD
- Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle – Episodes 1 and 2
- Arachnadoodle
- Panzer Generals: Allied Assault
- Up
- Texas Wuggle
- Risen
- Military Madness: Nectaris
- ION Assault
- Tumblebugs (iPhone)
- Time Gentlemen, Please!
- IL2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey
- Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao
- The Conduit
- Splosion Man
- Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves
- Droplitz
- Sam and Max Save The World
- Comix Zone
- Altered Beast
- Yosumin! Live
- Blazing Birds
- Flock
- 50 Cent: Blood on The Sand
- Uno Rush
- Hasbro Family Game Night
- Crystal Defenders
- Exit 2
- Death Tank
- Minesweeper Flags
- Funtown Mahjong
- R-Type Dimensions
- The Maw
- Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos
- Puzzle Arcade
- Meteos Wars
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Facebreaker K.O Party
- A Kingdom for Keflings
- Shawn White’s Snowboarding
- Spider-man: Web of Shadows
- Vigilante 8
- Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 2
- Portal: Still Alive
- Crazy Mouse
- Beat ‘n’ Groovy
- Warworld
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Domino Master
- Shotest Shogi
- Rocketbowl
- Pirates Vs Ninjas Dodgeball
- Gin Rummy
- Castle Crashers
- Hellboy: The Science of Evil
- Lego Indiana Jones
- Speed Racer
- Viking: Battle for Asgard
Features
Fluff & Nonsense 