If you’ve tried to visit here in the past only to be confronted with a placeholder or “parking” site instead of the real thing, you’re not alone. It’s an issue that has plagued the site since it first went up and has only gotten worse in the last few months, culminating in preventing me from [...]
This probably counts as cheating. It’s not too big a stretch to say Doublefine played a big part in pushing me towards games as a career. Founded by Tim Schafer, he of LucasArts’ golden age and such titles as The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of The Tentacle, and Grim Fandango, it was their first [...]
Noveria is an icy wasteland, a tiny planet just close enough to its sun to support an atmosphere but far enough away that the only weather it sees are “blizzard” and “more blizzard”. It’s completely off most peoples’ radar, making it the perfect building site for a number of research companies who do their best [...]
Yes, crawling from the wreckage of ’07 like Arnie’s own unkillable metal skeleton, it’s Monday Flash. For the first installment of this bright and glistening new year – and is it me, or do the round-numbered years always sound a little more like future? – we’re blessed with two games that are each impressive in [...]
If there’s any doubt that 2007 was one of the best years for videogames the medium has ever enjoyed, one need look no further than venerable British games magazine Edge and their reviews section for the past few months. No other critical organ guards their 10/10 ratings so closely, with only a precious handful of [...]