Month: August 2024

Brad Fuller, Composer of Donkey Kong and Tetris Passes Away
Brad Fuller, composer at Atari passes away due to pancreatic cancer
Grim Fandango Remastered
If you are a gamer of a certain vintage (say 20 – 25) you may remember a little known company called Lucasarts who specialised in, amongst other things, Star Wars...
Ore no Yome ~Anata Dake no Hanayome~
Elomin Sha decideds to go find a wife.
Rooster Teeth vs Zombiens – NO WAY IN, NO WAY OUT!
If, like me, you enjoy watching Let’s Plays where people act like complete jerks to each other, laughing your head off when something spectacular goes wrong, or you enjoy watching...
The Soundtracks of Our Years: Volume I
Games have longed entertained us, but, without their sounds and score they would be a very different experience. Music has been used in life and movies to announce arrivals, sad...
Star Wars Battlefront – On The Job Training
Towards the end of last year I had a go at the beta for Star Wars Battlefront. I didn’t do very much in it – just the Tatooine mission where...
Warhammer 40,000 Armageddon – Waaagh, Waaagh never changes
First of all, credit for the above title goes to my esteemed colleague Dann. As long time readers may or may not know, I am a massive fan of Games...
Spellweaver
Before I truly launch into this review, I want to make one thing clear. I have really been enjoying what I have played of Spellweaver. The game is well put...
Lego Star Wars – Rock Solid Foundations
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away – okay, Beaconsfield in England – a company called TT Games Publishing looked at the Lego Star Wars building sets...
Ping Ping
Well here’s something different – a choose-your-own-adventure story. Dann told me about this game and pointed me to the website (www.pingaling.co). The description given intrigued me and I asked Dann...
L – The Polygons Strike Back
Ahoy hoy fellow gamers, Nerds, nerdettes and the Gaming community as a whole. It’s that time of the month again where we delve into the weird Al’ Yankovich’s mind of the...
Pro Pinball Ultra
(This is a preview of an early access game) A long time ago, back in the days of the 486 computer, when 80ghz was the height of processing speed and...
Heroes Rise – Not My Fault
So I was planning to do this week’s Gamer’s Quest about XCOM2, which I’m sure by now we are all playing obsessively. However our all-powerful leader, Dann, instead decreed that,...
Tomb Raider: Ten Thousand Immortals
From the moment that I watched the opening cinematic of a woman scaling a snowy mountaintop with a Sherpa as her only companion, a pack of wolves emerging into the...
Internet Archive has 1000 Windows 3.1 Games Available for Free
Internet Archive adds 1000 Windows 3.1 games to its collection, all free to play
Bounty Train
Every so often a game comes along that, if not entirely unique and original, at least uses established mechanics in a unique way. Such a game is Bounty Train. When...
Aveyond 4: Shadow of the Mist
Imagine, if you will, a land ruled over by an evil tyrant, seeking to bring all people under his diabolical rule. Imagine a team of heroes, brought together by fate,...
XCOM 2 – Rewriting History
Hey, do you remember XCOM: Enemy Unknown? Do you remember the alien invasion that the nations of the world banded together to defend against? Do you remember the final battle...