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Archives for August, 2012

The Cupboard of Shame

A long, long, time ago on FFG we used to have a feature called The Cupboard of Shame. The phrase was a euphemism for the place we put the games that, for one reason or another, we wished we’d never bought in the first place. It didn’t mean those games were necessarily all that bad, […]

of spiky hair and oversized swords

Final Fantasy 7 comes to PC once again. The list of new features is a little unimpressive: -Achievements – a means to push you to see all the content in a game? Or utterly useless gimmick? -a built-in cheat mode – okay, that could be useful for casual players who don’t want to level grind […]

Long live our noble queen

Hi there. With characteristically poor timing, we have an Olympic-themed update for you. Here’s a review of The Games: Summer Edition from Epyx. And, er, enjoy the closing ceremony (unless, as is likely, it’s happened already by the time you read this).

Rik vs. Stoo

Online multiplayer remains relatively unexplored territory for FFG. In recent months we’ve been making attempts to rectify the situation, albeit with very little success. Several hours, for example, were spent tinkering with network and router settings in the hope of getting Rise of the Triad deathmatch to work on DOSBox (which it did, eventually, but […]