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 […]

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but events seem to have overtaken me somewhat. Anyway, as you’ll have noticed from Stoo’s recent newspost (or indeed from the site itself), the nice fellows over at Just Games Retro have decided to call it a day. It’s always a shame when a site […]

So that was 2009. Despite our best efforts it’s been a quiet one, although we did manage to update each month, which is still better than we used to manage back in the early days (when, ironically, we had much more free time). Anyway, our limited ambitions for the year were largely realised. Having started […]

I’ve been meaning to do a reformat\system reinstall for a while now, and since I gave Windows Vista a miss I figured why not upgrade to the latest incarnation. Upgrading from XP actually means a clean install, so of course afterwards I hastily had to re-install the most important applications: This also gives me a […]

Those of us in the UK are currently being subjected to the latest series of ITV’s jungle-based reality show. The ‘celebrities’ are of a particularly poor standard this year – Samantha Fox, a bloke who used to be in Hollyoaks – that kind of thing. But they have got Jimmy White, who gaming fans may […]

Okay, so if you didn’t manage to catch it last week, just a quick note to say that Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe is on again tonight, BBC4, 10.50pm (or you can catch it here on the iPlayer). While most of us were looking forward to Brooker returning to the world of gaming, where he first made […]

I recently came across the blog of the RAM Raider. It’s basically the thoughts and rantings of a seasoned UK-based gaming journalist who seems quite angry about the way things are in ‘the industry’. None of the stuff is a massive surprise – PRs are dickheads, getting an ‘exclusive’ means promising a high review score, […]

Just the other day i remembered that a while ago I created a basic hit counter for our site. On inspection it needs a few improvements, for example to count unique as well as overall hits. Also it started counting a couple of years ago, and there’s no breakdown by month or anything, so any […]

3D Realms shuts down [Insert duke nukem for-never gag here] 12 years in development… now this. I remember watching a demo back when they were using the Quake 2 engine, or something of that vintage. If the game had actually come out then, we might have reviewed it as an oldie by now! I guess […]