Meanwhile, over at Just Games Retro… “I never realized how many people were actually running sites like this until a few weeks ago. And if not their own sites, then talking over vid captures on YouTube, or swarming meta-review sites or Gamefaqs with their opinions. It’s a little disheartening, I suppose, that I’m not as […]

Recently I was thinking about updating our Brief History of Space-sims – and something occured to me: what releases have there been in the past two or three years? The only significant one I can think of, off the top of my head, is X3. Back in the day I used to be a big […]

So I flicked through Gamespot’s review of Doom3, and it seems to come down to “yeah it’s a generic shooter that kills its own tension by being so repetitive. But it’s really shiny!!!! 8/10” It’ll be a few years before we look at Doom3 ourselves – but for now here’s my own summary which is […]

Hello, Okay, so July came and went without too much in the way of new content. No excuses, no lengthy stories of how bloody busy we are with our desperately interesting lives – let’s just say that July was a fallow month; we apologise. Only one new review tonight, but it’s a biggie. In this […]

iD have added their back-catalogue to steam! Also Raven have added some of their iD-engine-powered games like Hexen. just look at the front page I’d still rather be able to buy these titles on a CD-compilation, but I’m old-fashioned like that. This is a good move on iD’s part, and I only hope other companies […]

First up – (genuine) new content is coming very soon. In the meantime… Back in the mid-eighties, the big argument among computer-owning kids was whether the Sinclair Spectrum or the Commodore 64 was ‘the best’ machine to own. Frankly, I always found this a little bit baffling – Speccy games only ever seemed to feature […]