Hello everyone. The days are getting warmer, people are thinking to their summer holidays so here’s the tropical lushness of Far Cry.

Hello there. More racing action for you tonight, if ‘action’ is quite the right word to describe Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge. Right, now I’m off to work on something special for my next update…

I’ve played a bit of Audiosurf before, and I quite liked it, but I never really got into it in any kind of obsessive, must-get-100%-on-Message-In-A-Bottle kind of a way like I did with the earlier Guitar Hero games. Then I got an e-mail: “You used to have the worldwide best score for: everything counts [live] […]

Last night, on ITV4 (at an hour when I should have gone to bed, but was willing to watch anything to avoid doing so) I caught a few minutes of the ridiculous Michael Winner/Charles Bronson vigilante-fest, Death Wish 3. Which reminded me that there was an Amstrad CPC game (also on other 8-bit systems, I […]

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 […]

Hello. With the new season starting, I’ve rediscovered my low-level interest in Formula 1. And as such, I took the opportunity to dig out one of my old games for a (sort of) topical update. Check out our review of Formula 1 ’97, mofo!