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.
  • ID: Invaded

    You awake on a bed in an unusual room. As soon as you gain consciousness you realise something is wrong. You start to fall apart. Your limbs split into a dozen pieces, your whole body splinters and you can’t even remember your own name. It’s not a dream, but...
  • Are You Going To Salvage Anything? – Salvage Saturday 3

    Welcome back to another Salvage Saturday! In this weeks video, Adam takes on his first Grade 4 Ship, a Gecko called Luminous Ganymede. You can tell straight away that this is a big step up from the Mackerel ships in the prior videos. So, the big question is… “Is...
  • A Pleasant Journey Through The Internet

    I’m here to regale you with a little journey I went on through the Internet. Something a little different to my usual articles. Late one night I was scrolling through YouTube, as you do, listening to music. One of my go to songs when I’m feeling melancholic is Caledonia...
  • Salvage Saturday 2: Salvage Harder

    The second Salvage Saturday video is here! This week, Adam salvages a Grade 3 Mackerel ship, talks through some of his trials and tribulations and avoids catching fire… this time. All in a days work in Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Enjoy! Salvage Saturday 2: Salvage HarderWatch this video on YouTube Check...
  • The Future of Rocket League

    Rocket League has been a huge success for developer Psyonix. Since launching 5 years ago (as of next week), in July 2015, it’s changed a great deal. There have been experiments with arena designs, game modes, items and battle-cars; some of which were successful and others not so much....
  • Welcome To Salvage Saturday!

    I don’t know where to start with Blackbird Interactive’s latest game; Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It’s so unlike any other game I’ve played that it’s difficult to draw comparisons to help me contextualise it for you. Here’s the blurb on Steam “Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to...
  • Studio Ghibli Review (Part 6)

    Tales From Earthsea & From Up On Poppy Hill   This is part 6 of a series of reviews, looking at Studio Ghibli’s films, you can find Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 which look at Hayao Miyazaki’s and Yoshifumi Kondō’s directed films, by clicking on the hyperlinks....
  • Elite’s Next Step

    Frontier Developments have announced the next chapter for their immersive Space Sim MMO Elite: Dangerous. Odyssey will be only the second piece of paid DLC to be released after Horizons which started to launch a year after the base game. Elite: Dangerous released in December 2014 and has been...
  • Hardspace: Shipbreaker – The First Ship

    Hardspace: Shipbreaker is available now through Early Access on Steam. Developed by Blackbird Interactive & published by Focus Home Interactive, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is an exciting game with a bit of a twist. As the title suggests, your job is to break up space ships, in space, to salvage valuable...