This is long and ranty. But I feel that it is important. You guys absolutely got the industry you wanted. We got here through slow degrees. Like the proverbial frog in the pot – although, it didn’t actually seem that way to begin with. So, very quickly, let’s talk about
Continue readingGateway Review: The Subtle Art Of Waiting For Things To Happen
I quite like reading. I quite like adventure gaming. So the best of both of those worlds has got to be text adventures, right? Well. Sort of. If the writing is smart and the characters are clever then text adventures can – absolutely – paint marvellous pictures in your mind
Continue readingSpore Review: Beautiful But Shallow
I bought Spore in 2008 when there was some amount of hoopla around the game. Some of it was deserved – it promised to ship with bad DRM that made the game functionally useless if you put a foot wrong and then installed it. Some of the hoopla had to
Continue readingFarewell, Blizzard
Warning! This is long and ranty and link heavy! [Links will open in new tabs] I remember Silicon and Synapse. You might not, but I do. They weren’t big enough to work on their own projects, so they did ports of other games to various other consoles. None of these
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