04-04-2015 By Bobfish So you think yearly sequels are a bad thing? A sign of the current, degrading quality in the video game industry, spurred on by an irresistible urge to fleece as much money out of players as quickly, cheaply, and easily as possible. More

21-03-2015 By Bobfish Believe it or not kiddies, t'was less than a generation (biological, not console) ago that there were not just decent, not even good, but superb Star Wars games being made. On a regular basis no less. Pontefract, Star Wars: Republic Commando. More

01-11-2014 By Doubleplus With the recent hubbub surrounding Hatred, I figured now would be as good a time as ever to give a retro review to the king of controversy, and one of my all-time favorite games, Postal 2. Why? More

05-07-2014 By Bobfish Honestly, if you don't know what Tomb Raider is by now, it'd be like trying to explain how you breathe. It's a game, and a series, that's been part of gaming for so long, relatively speaking... More

21-09-2013 By JcDent Let me tell you about the greatest game you haven't played. Back in 1990, Star Control, a sort of a starship Mortal Combat game with minimal backstory, was released. It received a sequel in 1992 in the form of Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters. More

31-08-2013 By Endzville The game is based on a Belgian comic series of the same name, specifically the first eight volumes or so with some changes in chronology and actual events and the story is centred around an amnesiac man with the titular Roman numeral tattooed on his shoulder. More

29-06-2013 By Fr33Lanc3r.007 Coming from the mind of Chris Roberts, Freelancer offers an open world with a wide variety of factions, locations, and ships - once you’ve completed the story that is. More

11-05-2013 By Fr33Lanc3r.007 Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is perhaps the best known of the Star Wars RTS games. Built on the Genesis Engine (most famous for the first two Age of Empires Games), it covered a series of six campaigns surrounding the original movies, as well as Episode 1 More

07-04-2013 By Bobfish But anyway, Blue Shift. This time you take on the role of Barney, the same security guard you have quite regular contact with during the main game. In fact, you sort of see how his game ends during Half-Life. More

17-03-2013 By Leigh Cobb Few games come backed up with finer pedigree than Big Huge Games. Born out of Civilization II and Alpha Centauri developers, Rise of Nations was the debut real time strategy game from a studio founded from the greatest minds in the genre. More