Simon Munk
Simon Munk
- Bio
- Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.
Articles by Simon Munk
Impossible Road
Friday, 10 May 2013
"Avoid missing ball for high score" ‑ possibly some of the most famous and minimal videogame instructions ever, for one of the earliest arcade games, Pong. The instructions for Impossible Road could... Read more... |
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Friday, 03 May 2013
An invincible army of cybercommandos, neon-pink pulsing colour schemes and the throbbing sounds of a Morodor-style baseline – Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is every bit the dumb Eighties action game on the... Read more... |
Dead Island: Riptide
Friday, 26 April 2013
It has to have been the trailer, there's really no other explanation. Before the original Dead Island came out, there was a trailer. And not just a trailer, but the trailer – probably the most finely... Read more... |
PunksNotDead/DuoTasking
Friday, 12 April 2013
The bassline starts, "1979" flashes up on screen and, over a scratchy recording, the voice intones "Walking down the street, I get punched; you're walking down the street, you get punched".... Read more... |
BioShock Infinite
Friday, 29 March 2013
We're at a moment of change in games – new consoles, new ideas, new ways of playing. And what better game to usher out one era and in a new one than BioShock Infinite?This first-person shooter is... Read more... |
Tomb Raider
Friday, 08 March 2013
Like a faded star, wearing the moth eaten dresses of her past, still stalking a shuttered Hollywood set, Lara Croft has seen better days. Ah, the old days – she made or broke consoles, appeared on... Read more... |
Crysis 3
Friday, 01 March 2013
Crysis 3 arrives as the current generation of console hardware is being shuffled over to make way for the next – normally a very fertile time for games. Usually, the best games come out late in a... Read more... |
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Friday, 15 February 2013
The gnashing teeth emerging from a slathering black mouth ‑ HR Giger and Ridley Scott's Alien design remains one of the most horrific creations of cinema: an iconic image of vagina dentata body... Read more... |
The Cave
Saturday, 02 February 2013
They were there at the beginning of video games, now it seems adventure games are back. After all, with so many mainstream releases reducible to running down a corridor shooting, it's hardly... Read more... |
Anarchy Reigns
Friday, 18 January 2013
Once upon a time (in the Nineties), Japanese game developers ruled the world. Now, with the notable exception of Nintendo, gamers seem to look more to the west for the most exciting and innovative... Read more... |
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- personal website
- http://www.simonmunk.co.uk
