Earlier this week the sad news emerged that programmer Mike Singleton had died, aged 61, after losing his battle with cancer. Lords of Midnight was a little before my time, but I do have many fond memories of playing Midwinter on the Atari ST. As with many of my earlier gaming experiences, much of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

So I went and got Operation Flashpoint from Good Old Games, which may have been incredibly foolish. I bought it once already, the first time around nine-ish years ago. And I sucked. My attempts usually worked out as: 1: lie prone in cover 2: carefully line up shot against target silhouetted against sky 3: miss […]

So I got the CSI Miami game. It’s… not very good. I was warned, of course, since it’s basically just Dark Motives with new missions and the Miami cast. I think I’m going to give myself RSI from mass-clicking every screen, and showing every bit of evidence to every suspect, so maybe I should just […]

My current gaming project is: Gothic 2. If you’re not familiar with the Gothic series, imagine something like Elder Scrolls (single character, open world, action combat) but with a steeper learning curve. By which I mean, expect your pitifully weak hero to get casually murdered by every wolf, bandit and oversized insect lurking 20 yards […]

Well I thought that, since I’ve kinda failed to keep up with Rik’s output, it’s time to get cracking on more content. So I’d have another go at King’s Quest 6. This must be about the sixth attempt, somehow I’ve just never succesfully played through, but we really should get a King’s Quest on board […]

So I picked up Blood from gog.com, and sat through what has to be the ugliest, most plastic-looking pre-rendered cutscene I’ve yet encountered. Were we once impressed by this kind of thing? It’s aged horribly. In the interests of being positive, here’s a mid-90s intro done right: Yes we’re rocking out on midi music there. […]