Adam Thomas

Adam is a Writer, Editor & Podcaster here at Out of Lives. He casts a wide net across popular culture with video games & anime, in particular, featuring heavily in his work for the site. Hailing from a town just outside Glasgow, this Scotsman can usually be found roaming the Northern Realms on The Path or behind the wheel of a Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle-Car.
  • MGS: Ground Zeros and Why I Liked It?

    Hello and welcome to this week’s blog! I thought since it’s less than 2 months away from the release of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain on September 1st, I’d give MGS: Ground Zeroes a try after downloading it for free last month on PS+. What better way...
  • Microsoft’s Ace Move and Playstation Now What?

    BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY! We thought we’d never see it happen and according to Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, he didn’t think they would manage it. But they tried anyway and now have delivered an excellent strike, a sucker punch against Sony, to continue their ascendency in “The Console War”. Now...
  • Six New IP’s

    Hello and welcome to Part 3, the final part of my E3 reaction blogs. If you haven’t read the others then I suggest you keep scrolling down until you have caught up and then re-join me. Okay so this entry is dedicated to the new games that really caught...
  • Pent-Angular, Remakes and Remasters

    Hello and welcome to blog number 5, part 2 of 3 for my E3 reactions, so here’s 5 games that showed up in the various conferences that are being remade, rebooted or remastered and my thoughts on each of them. Final Fantasy VII The pinnacle of the Final Fantasy...
  • Blog 4.0

    Here we are again, this time for the first in a 3 part series featuring the best and worst of E3. So look forward to parts 2 and 3 over the next week or so. Please check out all the Out of Lives mini-casts we did for the conferences...
  • Third Time Lucky

    Hello again! Since E3 is right around the corner (Yes I checked and it is there) I figured I should probably jump on the bandwagon of predictions and crackpot theories. But I’m not going to since at the time of writing this half of the “surprises” have already been...
  • My Second and Defiantly not the First

    Hello again! And welcome back to the Plenty of Lives blog, a blog written by a hopeless amateur as evidenced by the fact that in my first blog I forgot to properly explain what this blog was for! Silly me. The Plenty of Lives blog is a blog focused...
  • My First and Not Last Blog

    Welcome to my Gaming Blog, special mentions go to Dave Wyatt, Kyle Barratt and Lee ‘Jimmy’ Chesnalavage for helping with the name and of course to Ross Miller for hosting and setting it up! I hope you all enjoy! Constructive criticism, sarcastic comments and praise are all welcome! SPOILER...