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Archives for May, 2014

Nox

Hello everyone. I’ve been playing through the fairly obscure action-RPG from 2000 known as Nox, so here are my brief thoughts. I wish I could tell you to ditch Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3 immediately and go play this over-looked classic. Unfortunately, some games are forgotten for fairly good reasons. Still, it’s good to at […]

Shoot again, player one

Hi there. Today we’re looking at an old pinball game: Pinball Fantasies. For reasons that will be explained, I also decided to go back and write a little more about its sequel, Pinball Illisions, too.

We’re talking ’bout football (soccer!)

Currently playing: FIFA 14 I’m not sure if it’s my inability to get on with the 360 pad, my sloth-like reflexes and arthritic fingers, or just the fact that I haven’t practised enough, but I’m finding the latest FIFA fairly hard going. I’ll reserve judgement on the main game for now, but in terms of […]

Give Jaffa Cake to Giles. Use Hammer on Glory.

Fan imagines Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a LucasArts-era adventure game Some artwork of scenes from TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, drawn in the style of a classic Lucasarts adventure. For a 30-something nerd and Joss Whedon fan like myself it’s a perfect combination of two different sources of 90s nostalgia. If such a […]

Nighthawk

I’ve never talked much about flight sims as frankly I’m pretty bad at them, and aren’t really qualified to offer much commentary, beyond subjective experience. One I did play a bit though, back in my childhood, was F-117A from Microprose. which puts you in command of the USAF’s stealth fighter. Rather than flashy Top-Gun style […]