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Archives for March, 2014

Brake for the snake

Hi there. Some more racing action for you today – from me, with love. It’s an arcade racer from the mid-90s called Screamer.

Glory to Arstotzka!

Currently playing Papers Please, an indie game that puts you in the seat of a border inspector in a fictional communist nation in 1982. Your job is to read through the documents of every person attempting entry, and only let them through if everything appears to be in order. So that means checking a bunch […]

It’s the three [expletive] stooges and you’re here for OCS

Currently playing: L.A. Noire. For various reasons I’m now on my third runthrough of the early missions without having made it that far into the game. It’s not without problems, but I definitely like it so far, although I’ll reserve final judgement for when I get to the end – I’m not sure where the […]

Don’t lean on me man, ’cause you can’t afford the ticket

Hi there. We make a belated (and non-sequential) return to the Driver series tonight, with a look at the fourth game in the series, Driver: Parallel Lines.

hey what was that noise – *urk!* *thud*

I’ve been meaning to play Dishonored for a while now. It was a significant release for me, as it can be seen as a spiritual cousin of Thief and Deus ex, two of the greatest games in PC history. It draws on Thief’s stealth and exploration, and from Ion Storm’s classic it takes the flexible […]

You stand before the gate leading into the Towne Cemetary

Hello everyone. The last time I wrote about a First-person shooter, it was something at the more recent end of what we’d call an “old game” on this site. So for my next item I’ve taken the opposite approach, and investigated a series from the earliest days of the genre, way back in 1991. So […]