As I may have mentioned here and there, I’m not particularly good at racing games. Or at least, I lack the motivation to play them enough to become more skilled, usually just dicking around for a bit, completing an easy couple of races and then crashing into something. That’s why my only contributions to our […]

Recently i’ve been wasting a lot of time on TV Tropes, a website primarily dedicated to cateloguing recurring themes and ideas that turn up in fiction in all kinds of media, including gaming. t into related topics in various forms of media though – there’s a lot there and it’s it’s almost like a more […]

Just to let you know that Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is going for $10 on Steam this weekend. It’s basically Deus Ex with vampires, which should be enough reason for anyone to snap it up. There are multiple ways to build your vampiric “hero”, some really well-developed characters to interact with and it still looks […]

Hi all. The nights are drawing in again, meaning we’re reaching the half of the year when you don’t have to feel so guilty about sitting in a dark room playing videogames again. Also with the credit crunch biting, what better time to enjoy the kind of game you can grab for $10 on Steam […]

So I got my Good Old Games beta access code. Here’s a look at what’s currently (or soon to be) available. 1NSANE $9.99 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 2005 SOON CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD $5.99 DESCENT + DESCENT 2 $5.99 DESCENT 3 + EXPANSION $5.99 DIE BY THE SWORD + EXPANSION $5.99 EARTHWORM JIM 3D $5.99 […]

My to-do list got interrupted this weekend by Portal. I’d heard a lot of good things, but also that it’s really short, so waited until it hit $10 on steam (altho that might have been a special offer). The short form is, it’s a hell of a lot of fun. Really novel gameplay concept. What’s […]

I’m happy to report that we now have nearly all of the Lucasarts adventures covered. Given that the favourites were so well loved, and even 2nd-tier stuff like The Dig is very enjoyable, I do think comprehensive coverage is a worthy goal for a site like ours. All that’s left now are Zak McCracken and […]

A friend of mine sent a link to this: GOG.com. It’s an online distribution service, focussing on older games – the front page has stuff like Fallout 2 and Sacrifice. Ever since Steam came along I’ve been hoping for more oldies on online services like this. There’s certainly some demand out there for the classics, […]

Budget games are mostly excellent, right? All kinds of classics from several years ago, that set you back only a modest amount and run decently even on outdated hardware. In fact, they’re as important a part of our archives as the older abandonware generations. Still, I was reflecting lately on a point Rik once brought […]

Hi all. We have a guest item today, so a great big thankyou goes to the J-Man of Just Games Retro. He’s donated us his review on the 2001 shooter, Red Faction. What’s more he’s done a quality in-depth asssessment where I’d probably just write “Kind of dull, you can blow walls up, 5/10”. So […]