Playing Puma World Football again recently brought me back to the series of videos Rab Florence recently produced for Rock, Paper, Shotgun about “games, time and loss”. The arty style and the slightly weird intensity might not be to everyone’s taste, but I did find them rather affecting, particularly this one: It’s more about nostalgia […]

Hello there. It’s the final day of the Premiership season, the kind of day that makes you think, “who’d be a football manager?” (Or more specifically, Steve Bruce, poor fella.) Thanks to the world of gaming, though, you can actually be a football manager in your spare time, if you so desire. Here’s the 2006 […]

A few weeks back I wrote about one of the most frustrating battles from the venerable cRPG, Wizardry 7. Here are a few more that, for various reasons, have stuck in my memory all these years. The Fiend of Nine Worlds Towards the end of the game, working through the vast, sprawling final dungeons, you […]

It may surprise some of you to learn that Rik and Stoo of the famous games site A Force for Good don’t actually live together at a place called FFG Towers, playing old games at an incredibly slow rate with the intention of posting a maximum of two reviews per month. In fact, we’re rarely […]