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About Wolf’s Gaming Blog
I was summoned into this pitiful mortal realm sometime in the early 90s, apparently because someone misread the ancient runes and accidentally ordered one sarcastic Scottish werewolf thing instead of a functioning adult.
A terrible mistake, obviously, but here we are.
My name is Baden Ronie, though on the internet I usually go by Wolf because it sounds cooler, looks better on a logo, and makes the whole “raised by marauding wolves” backstory slightly easier to sell. Wolf’s Gaming Blog is my little corner of the internet where I review games, yell about games, occasionally praise games, and sometimes stare into the middle distance wondering why games insist on being Like That.
This site started because writing about games seemed like a fun thing to do. There was no grand plan. No business strategy. No dark ritual performed under a blood moon. I just liked games, liked writing, and thought smashing the two together might keep me occupied and away from biting people.
It mostly worked.
I grew up on a steady diet of Sega Mega Drive games, early PC nonsense, PlayStation classics, Xbox 360 bangers, and the kind of games that make you say, “I’ll just play for another ten minutes,” shortly before realising the sun has come up and your spine has transformed into damp cardboard.
Some of my earliest gaming memories are Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Duke Nukem, Max Payne, Total Annihilation, Jazz Jackrabbit, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Command & Conquer, Colin McRae Rally, Grand Theft Auto 3, Gears of War and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Basically, a sensible and nutritious childhood.
At some point, this hobby mutated. What began as rambling about games eventually became reviewing them, interviewing developers, getting review code, testing hardware, covering news, and spending a suspicious amount of time trying to explain why a game is good, bad, brilliant, broken, boring, beautiful, or some unholy combination of all six.
I have Cystic Fibrosis, which is a bit of a pain in the arse and generally poor character balancing from whoever designed me. One-star accessibility feature. Would not recommend. But writing has always been a useful outlet, especially on days when my lungs are being dramatic little bastards. Games have been entertainment, comfort, distraction, obsession and, somehow, work.
Wolf’s Gaming Blog remains independent, slightly feral, and fuelled largely by stubbornness, caffeine, controller batteries and poor life choices. I try to write honest reviews. Not performative honesty. Not “I am bravely disagreeing with everyone for clicks” honesty. Just actual honesty. Sometimes my opinions line up with the wider consensus. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes I love a game everyone else bounced off. Sometimes I bounce off something everyone else is worshipping like it descended from the heavens carrying a 10/10 badge and a packet of biscuits.
That’s the fun of it.
I’m not here to tell you what to think. I’m here to tell you what I think, ideally in a way that is useful, entertaining, occasionally informative, and only mildly concerning to close friends and family.
The name Wolf’s Gaming Blog is, admittedly, a relic from when this place was more obviously a blog. These days, the “blog” part sometimes makes companies look at the site like I’ve turned up to a black-tie event wearing a traffic cone as a hat. But the name stuck, the wolf stuck, and at this point changing it would involve effort, branding, paperwork and possibly a priest.
So Wolf’s Gaming Blog it remains.
When I’m not playing games or writing about them, I can usually be found reading, watching films, playing drums, swimming, brooding with unnecessary intensity, getting distracted by shiny objects, or yelling at things that absolutely deserve it. Such as bad tutorials. Tiny fonts. Live-service roadmaps. And people who call every open-world game “Skyrim with guns,” even when they are clearly wrong.
So that’s me.
Baden Ronie. A.K.A. Wolf.
Writer. Reviewer. Scottish. Occasional drummer. Full-time haver of opinions.
Welcome to the site. Please wipe your feet, avoid the bite marks, and don’t feed me after midnight unless you’re offering review code or biscuits.
WGB 