Earlier this week Knyght performed a great service to the world of abandonware by adding the CD version of Dreamweb to Anarchy. It’s something I’ve been after for a while, having thoroughly enjoyed the disk version but also thinking (based on vague memories of a playable demo from around the time of the game’s initial […]

Hi all. The nights are drawing in again, meaning we’re reaching the half of the year when you don’t have to feel so guilty about sitting in a dark room playing videogames again. Also with the credit crunch biting, what better time to enjoy the kind of game you can grab for $10 on Steam […]

So I got my Good Old Games beta access code. Here’s a look at what’s currently (or soon to be) available. 1NSANE $9.99 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 2005 SOON CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD $5.99 DESCENT + DESCENT 2 $5.99 DESCENT 3 + EXPANSION $5.99 DIE BY THE SWORD + EXPANSION $5.99 EARTHWORM JIM 3D $5.99 […]

My recent spell playing The Games: Summer Challenge confirmed something I already knew – in games, when people fall over, are thrown from something that’s moving, or just generally are involved in an accident, I find it very, very funny indeed. Although I’ve always enjoyed the scripted humour of certain LucasArts adventures, for me, they […]

This was meant to be a topical, Olympic-themed update, but somehow it didn’t happen that way. Anyway, if you’re a fan of the controller-bashing track and field games of old (or even if you aren’t) you might like tonight’s update – a review of The Games: Summer Challenge. More soon…

My to-do list got interrupted this weekend by Portal. I’d heard a lot of good things, but also that it’s really short, so waited until it hit $10 on steam (altho that might have been a special offer). The short form is, it’s a hell of a lot of fun. Really novel gameplay concept. What’s […]