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Archives for March, 2011

Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship.

Hi all. Today’s review is Starship Troopers. Which would be the game of the film of the book. It’s kindly provided by guest-reviewer the J-Man. While it’s no longer updated, he still has a lot of quality reviews up at Just Games Retro and we recommend you have a read there. Especially as he’s covered […]

deploy plasmatrons!

Stumbled across this completely by accident: Ascendancy for iOS Originally an MS-DOS title from 1995, Ascendancy is a space-based 4X strategy game – the sort where you colonise worlds, build up an infrastructure, build a stack of warships and go conquering other civilisations. It’s actually somewhat flawed, for one thing the AI is lamentably dumb […]

god speed, big marble

One of the benefits of Steam is the stack of indie games they make available. I’ve been slow to look into such things, but this week have been enjoying some Nightsky. It’s a puzzle-platformer – popular format amongst indies, I hear? The idea is you have to navigate a sphere across the screen whilst obeying […]

Evidence, back on the case I’m hyped up

Good evening. Double update tonight. First, Stoo takes a look at 90s console RPG Shining Force – which recently arrived on PC via Steam. [Archive note: this later moved to JGR] Our second review is of something a bit more recent – the TV tie-in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives. Hope you enjoy them. […]