Stumbled across this completely by accident: Ascendancy for iOS Originally an MS-DOS title from 1995, Ascendancy is a space-based 4X strategy game – the sort where you colonise worlds, build up an infrastructure, build a stack of warships and go conquering other civilisations. It’s actually somewhat flawed, for one thing the AI is lamentably dumb […]

One of the benefits of Steam is the stack of indie games they make available. I’ve been slow to look into such things, but this week have been enjoying some Nightsky. It’s a puzzle-platformer – popular format amongst indies, I hear? The idea is you have to navigate a sphere across the screen whilst obeying […]

Some screenshots for Skyrim at Rock Paper Shotgun. From what I’ve heard so far, it’s like Oblivion with upgraded graphics and more advanced combat physics. Rest assured I’ll be getting a copy; I missed the early installments of Elder Scrolls but have been a huge fan since Morrowind. My current thought tho is how they’re […]

Surely that involves blocking off the entrances and starving the monsters within into surrender over the course of several months. Which, er, doesn’t describe the nature of today’s game at all. But anyway here’s Dungeon Siege.

Hello everyone. We have a review! Here’s Doom 3. Yes 3. Not 1 or 2. We’re hoping to have a few more items before Christmas. So as to help me spend time with the oldies, I’ve made an act of supreme sacrifice and dedication, and held off from buying the new warcraft expansion.

So you might have seen the TV ads for the upcoming warcraft expansion. Yep a huge angry dragon bursts out of the ground, rants a lot about his ENDLESS AGONY, and breaks the world. Apart from new content for current max-level players, a major theme of this expansion is re-working much of the existing content. […]

A great way to not get anything posted, spread myself across several games at once. Hey at least i’ve mostly given up on bastard warcraft. Planescape Torment: thought provoking, sometimes genuinely moving story-driven RPG. Great, as long as you like reading lots of text. Well-developed characters, fascinating setting. As far as D&D goes I’m far […]

A two month gap! Rik was off getting married, so congratz to him. Meanwhile I was meant to keep productive in his absence and, er, blatantly didn’t. Getting sucked into Grand Theft Auto IV didn’t help. Anyway though the retro-gaming wheels are turning again, and here’s a look at Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.

So, it was indeed a publicity stunt. Gog.com will be relaunched later today, finally out of beta. At the time of writing there are a few youtube videos telling us what to expect. The site doesn’t actually look all that different, just re-organised a bit. So being cynical you have to wonder if there was […]

So I surfed over to gog.com today and was greeted with this message: Dear GOG users, We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the way it is. We’ve debated on it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we’ve decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current […]