Thief Gold on GoG The supreme master of stealth gaming finally arrives on Good Old Games. Even better it’s the Gold edition, with has three extra maps and used to be a bit harder to find. Here’s the quick version of Why thief was awesome: 1: large maps with a high degree of freedom – […]

I’ve been playing games for about 25 years now. Over that time I’ve been into hundreds of computer games shops and bought who-knows-how-many games. Although I don’t have a current-gen console and hardly rush out of the door to buy new releases, I keep reasonably in touch with what’s going on (on top of the […]

One of my many Steam sale purchases this Christmas was a game called Blur. It’s a racing game from developer Bizarre Creations (of Project Gotham Racing and, a long time ago, Formula 1 fame) which received a level of critical acclaim, but failed to sell as well as they, or indeed publisher Activision, would have […]

Hi there. I hope you’re well. You look well. Have you lost weight? No, well, if anything I’ve put some on. Our review for today is Spider-Man: The Movie

So Gog promised “One of our most requested classic games is coming to @GOGcom on the 19th. Hint: its name starts with S.” Which immediately had me thinking SYSTEM SHOCK SYSTEM SHOCK SYSTEM SHO- oh wait, it’s Syndicate. That’s a classic too! But they’ve managed to set the good news up in the just about […]

Hi! Remember that double-update we failed to deliver last time? No? Well look at the news post below, then, dummy. Anyway, here’s what we’d hoped to bring you – the long-promised, and much delayed, review of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.

Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced 30-something PC (or former Amiga) gamers around the world are going to a special happy place in their heads, upon hearing this news. I for one fondly miss the days of my team of utter arseholes shooting each other in the back of the head and tripping over their own […]

Hello there! I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year, and whatever else you had planned. All the holiday fun is nearly over, but there’s just enough time for my traditional look back at the last year on FFG. And you thought you’d missed it. [More like, “hoped you weren’t doing it” – […]