In 2012, I had a brilliant learning experience. One that will definitely stay with me throughout my career as a personal highlight – I not only got to meet the man who changed the landscape of gaming, I also managed to ignore him...
Irn-Bru.
Buckfast.
All things that are, decidedly Scottish.
All things that mostly give me the boke.
Also, what's with bagpipes?! Good lord they're awful! That being said, yes, I am Scottish - born and bred. But what does it mean to be Scottish in 2017 and what does it mean to be Scottish, in a post-Brexit Britain?
Recently I was listening to an IGN UK podcast which featured an interview with Ridley Scott. The director of such greats as Gladiator, Blade Runner and Alien. He was having a relaxed conversation with IGN’s Gav Murphy about his latest film, Alien: Covenant.
During the conversation Gav asked a question that, to me, was a burning one: had Scott heard of Alien: Isolation and if so, what did he think about it?
Whilst these female role models in my life are both influential and bad-ass - and having had relationships in my love-life come and go - I have come to the realisation that no one person will ever love me like Lady Lara Croft...