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A social Meltdown
We don’t spend all of our time gaming and can actually be a sociable bunch occasionally; for example, Phil and I were due to meet some friends after work for a drink last Thursday. But seeing as we...
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Cast-Up: gratification in gaming
The 1001-Up.com team have now got a few podcasts under their belts since our first in May. We recently got together to talk about gratification in gaming after getting inspiration for the topic from an...
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What we’re not
Paint a picture in your mind of the classic image of a nerd. Whether you consider yourself one of us or not, you probably conjured the same image: a twenty-something man-child living in his mother’s...
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Disappointing video games: Fable III
Have you ever spent months waiting for a game, to finally get your hands on it and realise that it just wasn’t worth it? Or was there ever a title you played that was so buggy, with a story so awful...
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Hook-Up: Tim
Following on from our announcement last month that the lovely Joel has joined us as a Contributor and his subsequent interview, we realised that there is another person on the team who hasn’t undergone...
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Pleasantly surprising video games: Killing Floor
We all have examples of video games we’ve seen sitting on shop shelves or on Steam that haven’t really grabbed our attention enough to spend our hard-earned cash on. But what about those times when...
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Gamer Highlight – Phil, from 1001-Up
Originally posted on GeekOut South-West: In Gamer Highlight, I’ve been interviewing gamers from all fields of experience. As I close off the series to pick up DMing 101 again, I turn to people who...
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1 Year, 7 Months-up
Summer is now over and the drought of video games before autumn has almost ended, but what have the 1001-Up.com team been up to over the last month? We’ve seen some fresh content in our new Tabletop-Up...
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Pleasantly surprising video games: Hearthstone
We all have examples of video games we’ve seen sitting on shop shelves or on Steam that haven’t really grabbed our attention enough to spend our hard-earned cash on. But what about those times when...
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Pleasantly surprising video games: Memoria
We all have examples of video games we’ve seen sitting on shop shelves or on Steam that haven’t really grabbed our attention enough to spend our hard-earned cash on. But what about those times when...
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Pleasantly surprising video games: Cinders
We all have examples of video games we’ve seen sitting on shop shelves or on Steam that haven’t really grabbed our attention enough to spend our hard-earned cash on. But what about those times when...
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1 Year, 8 Months-Up
The dark nights are now drawing in and the weather is getting colder… so what better excuse to stay inside and play some video games? Join us as we reveal what we’ve been up to over the past month, and...
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EGX 2014: a first-timer’s thougths
As it was my first time at EGX, I went in with my mind open. At least that’s what I told myself but having seen coverage of previous events I had a decent idea of what to expect, certainly in layout...
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EGX 2014: conclusion
The 1001-Up.com team had the pleasure of attending this year’s EGX at the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre in London last month, and over the past three weeks we’ve been bringing you our coverage. It’s...
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Scare-Up 2014: Halloween week
Welcome to another year of creepy, crawly, scary, spooky Halloween goodness here at 1001-Up.com! Over the past few weeks we’ve been cooking up some content to make you jump for the nearest protective...
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Scare-Up: Home
It’s that time of the year again and we’ve already been busy playing some horrors. Kim and I joined Joel and Tim for a night playing scary video games in Bristol, UK starting with this unique title by...
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The beejezus files: the scariest games I’ve played
My brother-in-law once asked me: “How can a video game be scary?” He’s never played a horror before. He prefers to play strategy games and the genre in general isn’t really his thing. I, on the other...
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Scare-Up: Five Nights at Freddy’s
Have you ever being eaten alive by animatronic robots gone bad? The 1001-Up.com team sat down with Five Nights at Freddy’s to experience it over and over. After much nagging from Tim we finally sat...
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Scare-Up: The Evil Within
We told you we we’ve been busy playing horror games. This time around it’s my turn in the Scare-Up spotlight taking a recently released horror game for a creepy spin: The Evil Within by Tango Gameworks...
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Cast-Up: Scare-Up 2014
What, you thought we’d let Halloween go by without doing a podcast? There is no way in any hell we’d let Scare-Up 2014 end without one! Since Ben, Phil and Kim hogged the microphones last time and...
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