Articles By: Debbie Timmins (Weefz) 
Debbie owns and runs The Average Gamer. She started her gaming addiction during the mid-eighties on a lovely green Amstrad CPC64. From those early days of The Hobbit (say to Thorin “Carry me please”) she graduated to Lucasarts adventures and western C-RPGs. She accidentally fell into real-time strategy through the original Dune game but it really isn’t her thing. A few years of Discworld MUD addiction followed. Eventually she found first-person shooters, Japanese RPGs and Soul Calibur, and is now a fully-rounded gamer.
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 25th Apr, 2012 3:02 pm
Earlier in the week I posted a video of Geralt’s terrible seduction skills that somehow still managed to get a young elf woman into bed. That was nothing compared to a lad I met the other day who attempted to win me by arm-wrestling a fellow journalist. He was rather less successful. To celebrate the launch of The Witcher 2 [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Apr, 2012 11:40 pm
Frankfurt-based developers Crytek walked a group of games journalists through a live preview of Crysis 3 last week. You may have already heard from the announcement that Crysis 3 is set 20 years after the events of Crysis 2 and you’ll be playing as Prophet, our protagonist from Crysis 2. The action we saw covered a team-mate named Psycho talking [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Apr, 2012 10:45 am
I haven’t played much of The Witcher 2 yet, despite Brett telling us that the enhanced edition is incredible. Nope, I’ve been trying to finish the original Witcher game on the PC first, which is absolutely massive. Five full chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue. I’m most of the way through chapter 5 now and came across the most impressive [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 23rd Apr, 2012 2:30 pm
Following on from our recently-launched events calendar, here’s a quick summary of what events are happening this week. Tuesday: BAFTA are holding a Ghost Recon Alpha screening and Future Soldier Q&A from the game’s developers. (London) Thursday: GameCity Nights. (Nottingham) Friday: Tekken 6 with Lionz Den! (Kingston-upon-Thames) Saturday/Sunday: Game Hack. (London) Check the calendar to find out what other events [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 22nd Apr, 2012 8:41 pm
ArenaNet have announced the date for their first Guild Wars 2 public beta weekend – 27th to 29th April. This will be available to everyone who has pre-ordered pre-purchased the game as well as those who already have beta access. With the Guild Wars series, ArenaNet are known for producing games that function even on low spec machines. The minimum [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 22nd Apr, 2012 1:44 pm
Grimlock, the T-Rex Dinobot leader was always my favourite Transformer. Where the other Autobots were all “Yes, Optimus Prime”, “Protect the humans, Optimus Prime”, and “Autobots, roll out!”, Grimlock was pure goofball. I’m a sucker for anyone who can make me laugh. Bonus points if you can cause earthquakes and breathe fire. Here’s a great playlist from YouTube user NathanMSTL [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 12th Apr, 2012 5:21 pm
Digital Shoreditch is a yearly festival to celebrate creative technology and digital enterprise. This year it will run from 21st May to 2nd June. Also, it’s in Shoreditch. Sessions are proposed and voted upon by whichever members of the public happen to car enough to click the vote box. Games are represented well with fourteen different sessions currently up for [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 11th Apr, 2012 2:28 pm
We’ve added a giant new feature to the site – an events calendar for gamers! We’ll be collecting gaming-related events from all over the UK (and eventually, the rest of the world) and putting them in our handy-dandy games event calendar. You’ll also see a list of upcoming events in the sidebar and be able to get to the event [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 10th Apr, 2012 3:29 pm
Do you miss LAN gaming? The i45 Gaming Festival is less than a month away. Held three times a year in Telford, this event hosts a number of UK eSports qualifiers as well as some of the biggest eSports tournaments in Europe. Xbox 360 will be hosting a Modern Warfare 3 tournament, Activision and EA will be there as well [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 5th Apr, 2012 3:15 pm
Nintendo have announced a few more dates for their various tours around the country. Today and tomorrow, you can find Mario Kart 7at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in London from 10am to 6pm, touring with retired English rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio and retired English cricketer Freddie Flintoff. We’re visiting three locations around the UK to show off the amazing Mario [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 5th Apr, 2012 11:36 am
You remember Borderlands, right? Running around a post-apocalyptic desert in 2009 filled with gangs and environments constructed from scrap metal, the game was no Fallout clone. It was a cel-shaded shooty bang game with an RPG tree and quests that basically boiled down to “Go here. Shoot all of the things.” There were plenty of things and even more guns [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 3rd Apr, 2012 6:36 pm
Now that the MolyJam is all over, it’s time to take a breather and figure out what the hell we made. I described the event and posted a few impressions from the first day on Friday night. Here’s what happened over the weekend. Somehow I got swept up in a team of three artists and two writers. Fraser Ntukula is [...]
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