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Beyond the Cardboard Box: Best Of Activision

My most recent clearout of the ‘games cupboard’ followed the usual pattern of taking everything out, putting it on the floor and gazing at the mess I’d created while periodically puffing out my cheeks and scratching my head, before returning it all whence it came (albeit in a slightly different configuration) and telling myself that […]

Review: Gun

Hi there. How’s it going? All good I hope? [What’s with all the question marks? Who are you talking to? Are they going to reply? Especially if you turn off comments on these posts? – Ed.] Today we have another review for you. It seems to be pretty much all reviews at the moment, rather […]

Review: Death Rally

Hello all. After exploring more recent games in our last few reviews, we’re going back to the 90s for today’s piece, in which we take a look at the action racer from Remedy and Apogee, Death Rally.

Review: Wheelman

Hi there. Hope all’s well with you. Today’s game is Vin Diesel’s Wheelman™: A Wheelman™ Game (starring Vin Diesel).

Discussion: Emily Is Away <3 (spoilers!)

Hello! This is Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), our semi-regular discussion series in which Jo and I talk about our chosen indie title with lots of plot spoilers along the way. Today’s game is Emily Is Away <3 – the third Emily game by Kyle Seeley, released in 2021. We’ve covered the previous two already, and […]

Review: Blur

Hello there. Today’s game is relatively recent by our standards, but is also no longer commercially available and from a developer that is now defunct. All of which is a shame, because it’s an absolute corker. (I could make a joke here about always preferring Oasis or Pulp, which I sort of am doing anyway, […]

The Reluctant Upgrader

In a move that will shock precisely none of our longer-term readers, this week I became one of the last people to make the upgrade to Windows 10, days before the support period for Windows 8.1 expired. (Wikipedia: ‘as of January 2023, 2.59% of traditional PCs running Windows are running Windows 8.1’). Over the past […]

FFG Review of the Year: 2022

Hello. It’s that time of year where we traditionally do a half-hearted round-up of the stuff we’ve covered on FFG. I’m going to eschew the usual small talk about what kind of a year it’s been out in the real world, other than to acknowledge that things are tough for many and to send you […]

The Unreviewed: 2022

Happy New Year to you all. As we get to the end of the year and the inevitable question of whether to do a reluctant-sounding round-up of 2022 on FFG (spoiler: we will) I figured it might be worth trying something a little different as well. I do quite like our semi-official policy of mainly […]

Review: World Cup 98

Hi there. Believe it or not, this review was all set to go live at a suitably relevant point last week, but, as regular readers may have noticed, we had a few technical hiccups to sort out. Anyway, the big international footy thing was in the winter this year, for all kinds of dubious reasons. […]