Final Fantasy 7 comes to PC once again. The list of new features is a little unimpressive: -Achievements – a means to push you to see all the content in a game? Or utterly useless gimmick? -a built-in cheat mode – okay, that could be useful for casual players who don’t want to level grind […]

So thanks to the Steam Sale I finally caved and got Skyrim. And am trying not to play for 6 hours every day. It doesn’t radically change the Elder SCrolls formula but continues to tweak and modernise it, whilst providing the same amazingly compelling sandbox style play. So I’ll find myself on a mission to […]

Lately I’ve been getting the bad feeling that I’ve lost interest in action-rpgs. I say “bad” because it’s meant to be one of the topics I write about here. To be clear I’m not giving up on RPGs in general, just that click-to-kill sort, influenced in the past decade by Diablo 2. See, last year […]

So I finally finished Limbo. My feelings are a bit uncertain. Gameplay-wise it’s very well crafted. Given some puzzle it’s usually fairly clear what your overall goal is – you just need to figure out how to make that happen, from fairly simple elements (reversing gravity, a bear trap, some crates). The puzzles also feel […]

Hello everyone. Our comittment to Sierra games has always been just a bit more lacking than you might expect for old-time adventure fans. Pretty much the only series we’ve played extensively is Police Quest. Rik played one Space Quest and hasn’t been in a rush to go back, I did like the first Quest for […]

Currently playing: Dawn of War 2. The original had some novel ideas about replacing resource-gathering with taking and holding territory. I didn’t realise however how much further this one diverges with the RTS formula. It totally dumps the resource managent and base building altogether, and reduces the scale of your army to a small elite […]

Hello world. You might remember me, I’m supposed to show my face here and write about old games sometimes. And not leave it to Rik to keep the project going. Well here I am today, with a fairly obscure little first-person-shooter from the very early days – Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.

Thief Gold on GoG The supreme master of stealth gaming finally arrives on Good Old Games. Even better it’s the Gold edition, with has three extra maps and used to be a bit harder to find. Here’s the quick version of Why thief was awesome: 1: large maps with a high degree of freedom – […]

So Gog promised “One of our most requested classic games is coming to @GOGcom on the 19th. Hint: its name starts with S.” Which immediately had me thinking SYSTEM SHOCK SYSTEM SHOCK SYSTEM SHO- oh wait, it’s Syndicate. That’s a classic too! But they’ve managed to set the good news up in the just about […]

Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced 30-something PC (or former Amiga) gamers around the world are going to a special happy place in their heads, upon hearing this news. I for one fondly miss the days of my team of utter arseholes shooting each other in the back of the head and tripping over their own […]