Matchsticks for my Eyes

Blogging, analysis and commentary on worlds of wonder: Games, Books, Anime, TV, Movies

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Game Reviews

• Empire: Total War (PC, strategy)
• Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale (PC, RPG)

Book Reviews

• Bujold, Lois McMaster: Cryoburn
• Durham, David Anthony: The Other Lands
• Hughart, Barry: Bridge of Birds
• Kay, Guy Gavriel: Under Heaven
• Powers, Tim: Declare
• Vinge, Vernor: A Fire Upon the Deep

Anime Reviews

• Crest of the Stars / Banner of the Stars
• Fate/stay night

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  Welcome to Matchsticks for my Eyes! This site is about stories, in all their forms – games, books, anime, movies, TV. You can click a category on the right to find out more; jump to my Reviews, Feature Articles, or Let's Play/AARs at the top of the page; or just start browsing!

  -- Peter Sahui

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  • TV Tropes A wiki about storytelling tropes, conventions, and cliches. Not confined to TV. Highly addictive!

• Links: Books

  • Rocketpunk Manifesto What will the future look like? An interesting blog on science fiction.
  • Tor.com Science fiction and fantasy: blogging, commentary, fiction

• Links: Gaming

  • Designer Notes (Soren Johnson) Soren Johnson’s game design journal
  • Flash of Steel Strategy game blog; home of the Three Moves Ahead podcast
  • No High Scores Group blog by the folks from Gameshark
  • Quarter to Three The finest, most intelligent and most literate gaming forum I’ve ever come across.
  • Quarter to Three – Front Page Gaming blog, by industry veteran Tom Chick, Kelly Wand, Christien Murawski and Mark Asher
  • Shoot Club Hilarious short fiction on gaming. No longer updated, sadly.
  • Sugar Free Gamer Ian Bowes (spelk) on games, particularly wargames
  • The Escapist Gaming website with a focus on feature stories

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