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Archives for July, 2015

warriors of ultramar

Gog have recently added to their lineup a couple of strategy games based on Warhammer 40k, the famous science-fantasy tabletop wargame. These games are great for those of us us who feel like commanding some space marines against the enemies of the Imperium, but never got around to finding a gaming club. Or can’t paint […]

Status update

Hello everyone. Over the past few months you may have noticed this site going down for days at a time. This was down to some sort of recurring problem with the servers at our host Parcom. So we’ve now moved to another host. Let us know if you encounter any problems! I think all the […]

Frame rate woes

The existence of this site, and my ongoing contribution to it, would suggest minimal enthusiasm for the latest gaming technology. Eventually, however, when a five year old game bought from a Steam sale for a few quid is downloaded and launched with moderate excitement, only for frame rates to fall noticeably below a fairly liberal […]

back to the Phobos Anomaly

Rik’s recent review of Doom prompted me to have a look at Doom Reborn, a mod for Doom 3 that recreates the levels of the first two games. Doom 3 handled very differently to those predecessors – it was all about creeping around cramped corridors waiting for a demon to go BOO and leap out […]