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Moments in Gaming: Destroy the Intrepid

Moments in Gaming is where we look back on gaming experiences that have left a particularly strong impression on us over the years: mainly for good reasons, but sometimes for bad ones. As it’s Star Wars Day (Fourth of May be with you!) we figured it was time for a couple of moments from LucasArts […]

Moments in Gaming: Pull It Down

Moments in Gaming is where we look back on gaming experiences that have left a particularly strong impression on us over the years: mainly for good reasons, but sometimes for bad ones. As it’s Star Wars Day (Fourth of May be with you!) we figured it was time for a couple of moments from LucasArts […]

Review: Jade Empire: Special Edition

Hi all. Hope you’re well. Nice weather we’re having, huh? My mood always gets a real lift in the spring. [Note to self: check to see if ChatGPT could write these review intros so they sound more like a human has written them.] Today’s review is of Jade Empire: Special Edition, from Bioware.

Beyond the Cardboard Box: Best Of Activision

My most recent clearout of the ‘games cupboard’ followed the usual pattern of taking everything out, putting it on the floor and gazing at the mess I’d created while periodically puffing out my cheeks and scratching my head, before returning it all whence it came (albeit in a slightly different configuration) and telling myself that […]

Review: Gun

Hi there. How’s it going? All good I hope? [What’s with all the question marks? Who are you talking to? Are they going to reply? Especially if you turn off comments on these posts? – Ed.] Today we have another review for you. It seems to be pretty much all reviews at the moment, rather […]

Review: Death Rally

Hello all. After exploring more recent games in our last few reviews, we’re going back to the 90s for today’s piece, in which we take a look at the action racer from Remedy and Apogee, Death Rally.

Review: Wheelman

Hi there. Hope all’s well with you. Today’s game is Vin Diesel’s Wheelman™: A Wheelman™ Game (starring Vin Diesel).

Discussion: Emily Is Away <3 (spoilers!)

Hello! This is Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), our semi-regular discussion series in which Jo and I talk about our chosen indie title with lots of plot spoilers along the way. Today’s game is Emily Is Away <3 – the third Emily game by Kyle Seeley, released in 2021. We’ve covered the previous two already, and […]

Review: Blur

Hello there. Today’s game is relatively recent by our standards, but is also no longer commercially available and from a developer that is now defunct. All of which is a shame, because it’s an absolute corker. (I could make a joke here about always preferring Oasis or Pulp, which I sort of am doing anyway, […]

The Reluctant Upgrader

In a move that will shock precisely none of our longer-term readers, this week I became one of the last people to make the upgrade to Windows 10, days before the support period for Windows 8.1 expired. (Wikipedia: ‘as of January 2023, 2.59% of traditional PCs running Windows are running Windows 8.1’). Over the past […]