In the last article we looked at gamepads, a fairly profound shift away from classic PC gaming peripherals. Today we’ll be examining one of the older forms of PC peripheral, the joystick. This discussion on joysticks will look at regular joysticks and their usage scenarios, perhaps with recommendations for alternative…
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Atomp Discusses: Crowdfunding, Early Access and Gaming Part 2
Tom Hooper aka Atomp This is the concluding half of a two part article discussing the current significant trends in gaming of early access and crowdfunding and the changes these are having upon the industry. We are now seeing shifts that would previously have been unimaginable as new tools and…
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Atomp (P)Reviews: RimWorld [Ludeon Studios]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp My seeming inability to fully envelop myself in Dwarf Fortress has again taken me to new and interesting alternatives which in this particular case is the sci-fi colony sim RimWorld. There’s a great deal of Dwarf Fortress here however it’s married with some Prison Architect for…
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Atomp Reviews: Wolfenstein: The New Order [Machine Games]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp Wolfenstein has a strong pedigree in first person shooters with Wolfenstein 3D being up there with Doom in terms of genre significance. (Fun fact: Wolfenstein 3D can be played in-browser on the Wolfenstein website). Wolfenstein: The New Order is a modern take on the classic formula…
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Atomp Updated Review – Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp, (05-06-14) It’s been just under a year since I last looked at Cataclysm and we left it at the very beginning of a crowd funding campaign to hire a full time developer. That crowd funding campaign succeeded raising $9,500 of the $7,000 goal…
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Atomp Discusses: Windows, Mac, Linux and Gaming
Tom Hooper aka Atomp Despite having quite the list of games that I want to play and review, this week has been a bit of a bust on that front. I made it perhaps halfway through the Arma3 singleplayer campaign and that’s about the sum of the gameplay that…
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Atomp Reviews: Democracy 3 [Positech Games]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp I’ve not played the prior two iterations of the Democracy games so this is my first venture into the series. Democracy 3 from Positech Games is a political simulator placing the player in the shoes of a democratically elected leader whom must attempt to tackle…
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Atomp (P)Reviews: Factorio (alpha)
Tom Hooper aka Atomp I’ve heard Factorio described as resembling a multitude of things; Tekkit, Feed The Beast, Open TTD, Minecraft, even Anno… and really in essence it is similar to all of these. It is a top-down survival game based around the use of components to produce automated…
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Atomp Re-Reviews: Sir, You Are Being Hunted [BIG ROBOT]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp I last looked at Sir, You Are Being Hunted (SYABH) back in November of last year whilst it was in Early Access. This first person sneaky, collecty, tactical survive-em-up from Jim Rossignol and company has advanced significantly since I last looked at it whilst also…
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Atomp: Tom’s Toaster Tally – Part 2
Tom Hooper aka Atomp This week is the concluding part of Tom’s Toaster Tally. These articles consist of a short list of games that I’ve looked at or know of that are appropriate for those running legacy or underpowered hardware, i.e. toasters. Whether you’re restricted to low-end hardware by…
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