It’s getting towards that time when everyone who doesn’t like football prepares to be extremely bored for weeks on end. As for everyone else (in this country at least) the question remains: “Can England do it this time?” Pro Evo says yes…  

So I finally made it to the magic 100. As achievements go, it’s hardly on a par with discovering the cure for…well, anything, but hey, if you can’t put a little note about reaching a milestone on your own website without feeling like you’re blowing your own trumpet rather too loudly, then you probably shouldn’t […]

Here it is – as ever, slightly later than I imagined. As it’s a special occasion, I decided to cover my favourite game of all time. But first, I had to play my least-favourite. I’ll let you find out for yourself which one is which. Here are reviews of Zone Raiders and Pro Evolution Soccer […]

Getting older, I’ve decided, is a process of everything changing so slowly that you never really notice at the time, until five years of sneaky, incremental change eventually adds up to one moment of consequence which suddenly hits you when you find yourself doing something that you never, ever, would have done once upon a […]

I love the intro to X-Wing: I liked the game, but I got quite badly stuck early on and gave up. It seemed a lot harder than TIE Fighter, which I managed to finish without too many problems. I thought I might go back to this one at some stage, but that probably it isn’t […]

Hello there. More racing action for you tonight, if ‘action’ is quite the right word to describe Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge. Right, now I’m off to work on something special for my next update…

I’ve played a bit of Audiosurf before, and I quite liked it, but I never really got into it in any kind of obsessive, must-get-100%-on-Message-In-A-Bottle kind of a way like I did with the earlier Guitar Hero games. Then I got an e-mail: “You used to have the worldwide best score for: everything counts [live] […]

Last night, on ITV4 (at an hour when I should have gone to bed, but was willing to watch anything to avoid doing so) I caught a few minutes of the ridiculous Michael Winner/Charles Bronson vigilante-fest, Death Wish 3. Which reminded me that there was an Amstrad CPC game (also on other 8-bit systems, I […]

So these days it seems we’re obsessed with DRM and how it does or does not affect sales of PC games. Still, while the methods change, the principle of stopping casual piracy is nothing new. Eurogamer has done a fun retrospective on some of the copy protection methods employed by publishers over the years. I […]

I’m not normally one for milestones, but there’s one coming up fairly soon. It’s been a long time (perhaps too long) in coming, but better late than never I suppose. So, in case you’d noticed this yourself and were lying awake at night wondering if I’ve got something special planned – well, I do. Kind […]