The Jman made a very sensible suggestion, that we review Doom. I’m not entirely sure why i’ve skirted around that one – I’ve covered the iD milestone immediately before, the next two after and even a 3rd-party game using its engine. Maybe it’s just a reticence regarding such a huge name in gaming; there must […]

The company i work for is about to move office, and as part of the process of clearing out we’re throwing out some old P2 to P3 era hardware. So I’ve taken for myself a hard disk and a few other bits – I now have more or less everything I need to resurrect my […]

So that was 2008. My journal prediction (made approximately 12 months ago) that the year would, ahem, “rock” may have been slightly tongue-in-cheek but, buoyed by 2007’s comparatively healthy schedule of updates, I had thought we could at least achieve something similar in 2008. For whatever reason, it didn’t happen. Still, we did manage an […]

Once all of the pre-Christmas-day fuss is out of the way, I always find the Christmas break a good opportunity to get some gaming done. Of course, the temptation is to get rather too ambitious and start thinking you’ll get through all of those games you haven’t had the chance to get into yet. This […]

I don’t have a subscription any more, but to give myself something to read on the flight when I went on holiday last month I decided to pick up a copy of PC Zone. It just so happened it was the 200th issue, and as such featured a decent-sized nostalgia piece with memories from former […]

Lately I’ve been feeling tempted to get myself a widecreen monitor. But havign shopped around a bit, I might shelve it for now. Thing is, I have a decent screen already, a 19″ dell. The logical upgrade size would be 22″… but apparently most of them use poorer-quality TN panels. Which the experts seems a […]

Another update, another game getting a lukewarm review and score. Some games you know are going to be a bit turdy but when you expect something more and are disappointed, well – it’s rubbish, frankly. Much as I enjoy squelching through games of all standards and writing about them, it’s nice to be able to […]

So they’ve made a Max Payne movie with Mark ‘Marky-Mark’ Wahlberg in it. Hmm. Sometims laziness can work for you; in this case, having been dimly aware for some time that the film was going to be released, I was going to post something about how it looked like it might actually be alright (based […]

My recent spell playing The Games: Summer Challenge confirmed something I already knew – in games, when people fall over, are thrown from something that’s moving, or just generally are involved in an accident, I find it very, very funny indeed. Although I’ve always enjoyed the scripted humour of certain LucasArts adventures, for me, they […]

Not an update as such, but I’ve spent a bit of time updating my brief histories. The racing one’s been done for a little while now, and the football and adventure histories have now been brought up to speed. There are new screenshots, games that we’ve covered are now linked to the review pages, and […]