If you look back at gaming history with the gift of hindsight, it’s easy to see where things went wrong and the decisions that led to the demise of countless franchises. It’s much less common to see a beloved series go from strength to strength and just vanish into thinRead More →
During a session of watching a friend play Skyrim some years ago, he remarked that the game was similar to reading a book. A silence then, which continued as I chose not to remark back at him and allowed that silence to fill in the details. I was not impressed.Read More →
It has been almost two years of rumours and eventually announcements, but still GoldenEye 007 is yet to appear on Nintendo Switch or Xbox. Despite a trailer at last week’s Game Awards, the game is still to materialize in the Nintendo 64 app on Switch, and there is no signRead More →
Getting hold of Evercade cartridges can be a bit tricky. If you miss the pre-order, you need to pretty much rely on one supplier as most others… well, let’s say they lack the reliability of Funstock. But what if you decide you want to buy a cartridge that came outRead More →
Certain brands, a precious few, hold great significance and such is the power of their indulgence in our hearts we know the breadth of their canon by a name. AM 2 would count for me, as would all of those numeral arcade departments from SEGA. Treasure would be another one.Read More →
Is Sega Rally fun because it is short, or short because it is fun? An uncle of mine used to say that the yard is greater than the metre in all regards but length. He wasn’t quite right but I could see where he was coming from and there wasRead More →
Have you ever wanted to play classic console or arcade games on the go? A few years ago, the concept would be ridiculed; today, retro handheld consoles are practically everywhere. There are many options to play retro games these days such as individual emulators, suites like RetroPie, etc., but theRead More →
Single player games are great, but if we can agree on gaming as no less than interactive media, with multiplayer games stacking on top ad infinitum, then there is a space between the two; a multiplayer that isn’t. A shotgun game, a single player experience wherein a second person mayRead More →
Do you remember the time when people would compete for high scores on Donkey Kong? When you had to queue to play Street Fighter II The World Warriors, in a place where you could take the wheel of a car without a license? If you remember those times, you rememberRead More →
