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Monthly games review – Stories: The Path of Destinies and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (PS4, PS+)
Its time for another roundup of the games given out for ‘free’ as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold and Sony’s Playstation Plus programmes. Today I’ll be looking at two games from the latter in recent months to see if they are worth downloading and playing. Stories: The Path of Destinies (PS4 version reviewed) Cutting …
Retro Monday: Konami Krazy Racers
I have never played this game before, sure I’ve played Mario Kart, but not Konami’s version of it. I was happy to have played it though, it’s actually very good in it’s own right. It’s going to be instantly compared to Mario Kart, as they are both similar games and Mario Kart id the fore …
Retro Monday: Zool
Where do I begin? Well, let’s try with the visuals. Visually the game is actually pretty decent with some interesting sweets used on the first few stages. Now we come to the gameplay, the most important thing for a game is to have interesting or generally just good gameplay, Zool fails in that respect, it …
Free to Play
I can recall the theme tunes for many of the programs I watched when I was very young because children’s brains just absorb information as a survival mechanism; a process which advertisers and producers use for merchandise and general awareness among their hyper-receptive audience as a vector to their parents’ wallets. However fondly we remember the entertainment …
Retro Monday: The Simpsons
This week was the week that we celebrated the 1st year anniversary of Retro Monday, and to celebrate I managed to get 3 other people to play a co-op game with me, that game was The Simpsons for the Arcade. The Simpsons was released in 1991 and was your classic Konami beat ’em up. The …
Monthly games review – Pumped BMX+ (PS4, PS+)
It is entirely possible to argue that Microsoft and Sony are taking gamers for a ride by charging extra to access online multiplayer features through Xbox Live Gold and Playstation Plus, especially as the latter was not necessary to play online with the Playstation 3. Each service offers several “free” games each month as long …
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Retro Monday: Haunting
Another week of retro goodness with Retro Monday. This week I was given the game Haunting: Starring Polterguy to play, by Hyperion from the forums. I’ve have never heard of this game, let alone played it. Haunting is a game for the Sega Mega Drive, it came out in 1993. Having never played this I …
Saving money on videogames
Gaming is an increasingly expensive hobby; in 2016 the traditional fixed console cycle is coming to an end with Microsoft’s Scorpio and Sony’s PS4 Pro consoles. nVidia’s 1000-series and AMD’s 400-series GPUs are providing graphical and computational power at relatively affordable prices that only a few years ago would be out of reach of almost …
Retro Monday: Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man.
This week for Retro Monday, I played Chalkitdown’s pick, “Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man”, an action platformer released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I’d never played this before, but I had heard good things about it. Well, lets start with how it looks. The style of the game is pretty great. …
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Retro Monday: Desert Strike
In the 90’s EA used to make a variety of games that they don’t seem to make now, one of those games series was the Strike games. There were 5 in total, but today we’re looking at Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf, which coincidentally is also the very first game in the Strike series. As a …