About

I, Brian (aka A Black Falcon on the internet) am a video and computer game fan with a masters’ in history.  I like talking about games and making lists and long posts. :p

Many of the reviews, previews, etc. here I also post, or posted, elsewhere, on forums such as Tendo City, a small forum I have been a member of since 1999.  For the older articles, from the 2010s, many of them will also be found on the forums NeoGAF, Sega-16, or PC Engine FX.   I don’t post on those three forums anymore.  Other than TC, the only other forum I still read regularly is ResetEra, but I almost never post on it and have made very few threads there; I don’t like it as much as I did NeoGAF before its collapse.  I started this site because while forums are great, I think it’s worthwhile to have my content on its own page also, blogs and forums are different.  On a website/blog like this my work doesn’t get buried and lost, which, for posts like these, is a good thing I think. 🙂  It puts all of my work in one place, or at least all of the gaming-related writings and lists that I like enough to post.  Yes, I have lots of partial lists and bits of articles I never finished or posted.  Maybe someday I will post incomplete things like those.

In articles where I say the screenshots are mine, such as the Guild Wars Memories and Screenshots series, all images are my content.  Additionally, the images that rotate in the site’s top bar are my own photos of bits of my collection.  I took those three photos back in the early days of this site, it’s a bit of a time capsule.

However, on reviews and such, most screenshots are borrowed from GameFAQs or occasionally some other similar game data listing site; it’s either that or I’d have no pictures here, because while I like writing stuff, making my own screenshots is not something I enjoy, or could do for newer consoles that can’t be easily emulated (off-screen wouldn’t be ideal…).  If anyone has any problem with me using any image I use here that is not my own, please contact me and I will remove it.

It’s sad I need to say this now, but absolutely no AI was involved with anything on this page. I am not an AI fan.

I have tried to fix them, but some older articles have broken formatting due to changes in WordPress.  I’m sorry about that.  I fix them as I notice the issues.

All of the text on the site and the photos I took are my work.  Don’t copy my writing.  For my Guild Wars screenshots, however, if someone wants to make an archive of old Guild Wars photos online, cite your source (me / this website) and tell me about it via a comment or message on this site.  Thanks.