Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Dear Ms. Goodman: Starting with the Compass Club series, your books have been getting increasingly darker, and The Price of Desire is the darkest by far, darker, I think, than any other book of yours that I have read. It was also an emotionally cathartic read, a book that hearkens back to the [...]
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help. You know the quote on the front of City of Vice touts it as Deadwood meets Inspector Morse but I'm thinking more along the lines of Law & Order except, you know, [...]
bookshelves of doom (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Sovay takes its title (and the events chronicled in its first chapter) from an old folk song*: Sovay, Sovay all on a day She dressed herself in man's array With a brace of pistols all by her side To meet...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Last updated April 20, 2008 11:06 a.m. PTGame On: 'Bow Street Runner'Rated: Mature Platform: Online"Bow Street Runner" is a casual point-and-click game based on a British TV series called "City of Vice." Set in London in the 1750s, the game depicts a city run by gangs, thieves and other ne'er-do-wells. Two brothers hired a band of crime fighters known as the Bow Street Runners to clean up the corruption....
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Bow Street Runner is a particularly well done adventure game that takes you back to Covent Garden, 1754, when crimes were many and the law enforcers were few. As one of the titular Runners, it's up to you to solve...
Jay is Games (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Just a quick note to point you to two new updates to previously reviewed games that you might want to know about: Amateur Surgeon and Bow Street Runner.
the blog quebecois (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
A game based on a TV series, City Of Vice, by Britain's Channel 4. You play a Bow Street Runner, proto-detectives who became one of England's first professional police forces in the 18th century. The game is the standard point-and-click...
CGEmpire (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Bow Street Runner’s a kooky little web-based pointy-clicky made as edutainment by Britain's once-glorious Channel4. From Goz over at the ever-awesome Chewing Pixels who laid down the original design for the thing: “The aim of the game is to educate players about the work of the formative British police force, The Bow Street Runners, through some Georgian [...]
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
London's Channel 4 has introduced an ideal method for learning the city's history: Bow Street Runner , a video game set in the 1750s . Specifically, the historically accurate ("and therefore grim, violent and salacious") game takes place in London's Covent Garden, where the Bow Street Runners are attempting to impose law and order. Gamers are guaranteed exposure to " sexual practices, commercial activities...
but she's a girl... (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
I'd been meaning to write about a Channel 4 series (now finished) called City of Vice . As usual, I'm too late in writing about it to allow you to watch it, but there was one particular puzzle in the film that I haven't quite solved, so I decided to ask the Lazy Web if anyone knows the answer. City of Vice tells the story of the establishment of the Bow Street Runners in the 18th Century (the forerunners...
Jay is Games (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Bow Street Runner is the first episode in a mystery adventure series commissioned by BBC Channel 4. Set in London's Covent Garden in the 1750s, crime in the city has risen to such a level that local magistrates were forced to take action. The Bow Street Runners were born, created to instill order in the increasingly crime-ridden city. It's a dark and historically accurate journey through old London,...
Freemania (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
When I saw the headline Sharia law in UK is ‘unavoidable’ I briefly imagined a force of Islamic police, relentlessly chasing infidel villains around the country, always getting their man (or, perhaps more likely, their woman) – a sort of cross between the Bow Street Runners, the Mounties and the Taliban. My second reaction was to chuckle that Rowan Williams had gone and dropped himself in it again,...
The Light, It Hurts (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
While we’re on the subject of retro policing, anyone seen City of Vice ? Rather immodestly billed by Channel Four as the UK’s very own Deadwood , it is pretty fucking far from being anything of the sort, though it does feature some rather inventive swearing: “fuckster” and “encuntment” being particularly sniggerworthy. The series documents the attempts of the brothers Fielding (John and Henry – he...
The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Coronation Street (Monday 7.30pm, ITV1) I’m still quietly sobbing after Friday's pair of Corrie episodes. The Street will definitely never be the same again, and tonight Jack shows signs of difficulty in coming to terms with the loss of Vera....
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
THEY hunted in packs like animals - gangs, usually half drunk, prowled'London's streets searching for the innocent.
