Reveal the Deep might be bare on the instructions side, but the title more or less gives you all the information you need. A lone deep sea diver, trudging around in gear similar to Bioshock’s […]
Leeds Indie Food Festival launch: A religious experience for your tastebuds
For me, the Press Launch of the Leeds Indie Food Fest ’16 started off with a religious experience. After I walked in the door of Headrow House I was handled a warm box of food, […]
Dark Souls 3: YOU DIED. No kidding.
Making a game based purely on combat immersive enough to make you want to pour hours into is difficult, especially for a game as unforgiving – and generally downright abusive – as Dark Souls 3. […]
Serena: Herald of the point-and-click renaissance
Was it a good idea to play Serena at midnight, after three glasses of wine, in a darkened room? Probably not. Even though Serena lasted only forty-five minutes in the same darkened, dusty cabin, I […]
Firewatch: Voyage into the wild
Firewatch is a dangerous game. Why? Because it lulls you into a false sense of security, makes you want to leave it all behind and escape into the Wyoming wilderness. Man goes out into the […]
Editor’s Q&A with Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
Following the success of her debut novel The Versions of Us, the film rights of which have just been bought by the minds behind My Week With Marilyn. In The Middle talks to Laura about […]
LGBTQ* in gaming: Love, Greenbriar, Borderlands and Talos
Applying terms like tolerant or open-minded seems outmoded in the 21st century, as accepting someone’s sexual preference is pretty much a case of simply being a decent human being. Oh for a time when we […]
The Turk’s Head: Victoriana revisited
The one thing I have always thought that was missing from the Leeds nightlife scene is a place that looks like the set for a contemporary Dickens fashion shoot, probably the kind that would be […]
Fargo: Disrupted Normality
1979. Luverne, Minnesota. Offscreen, Ronald Reagan is being impaled with (fake) arrows whilst the extras playing the wounded soldiers at the massacre of Sioux Falls yell out for blankets to keep them warm whilst they […]
Video Games | The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot – Not epic but adequate
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot sends you on a mighty quest on two levels. On one level you will be running around as either a knight or an archer collecting piles of glittering golden […]
Books | The Woman Rebel – A graphic novel on the impressive life of Margaret Sanger
The Woman Rebel is the first graphic novel that LSi has ever reviewed and a suitable one too, as the life of its subject, Margaret Sanger, was similarly unprecedented. As the first campaigner for readily […]
TV | Borgen – A cross between The Killing and The Thick of It
Standing somewhere between The Killing and The Thick Of It, Borgen looks into the inner workings of the Danish political sphere, building a bit of a cult following as it charts the squabbles between the […]