Busy week and year… This week has been one of the most busiest weeks I’ve had in a while. Before the week even began there was MCM London, 3 days of games, cosplayers, (and to a lesser extent) movies, TV and comics. I had one day to recover then I…
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Retro Monday – “Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem”
Slow week. Except for… You know… Only two major things happened this week. The first involves #GamerGate so I’m going to gloss over it swiftly with only the facts as not to offend the vocal. Anita Sarkeesian (yes her) was to do her usual talk at the Utah State University.…
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Retro Monday – “SimCity” (1989)
The return of the sh*ts… The hackers that hit many games and services like the Playstation Network, Twitch and “League of Legends” and who issued a bomb threat to SOE president John Smedley have struck again. After a supposed breakup of the group and some arrests by the ‘Feds’, they…
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Retro Monday – “The Crystal Maze” (DOS)
Slow but interesting news week… The elephant in the room is the lack of coverage of the Tokyo Game Show in… Tokyo. Well, as it happens so late in the year, right at the start of the fall release schedule, there is no news because its just yet more trailers.…
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Retro Monday – “Pokémon Trading Card Game” (GameBoy Colour)
Well I’m back at least… I have to admit that I am making this rather late in the day as other articles go. That being that I’m only starting this on the Monday morning rather than the Saturday because I arrived home from some time off on what can be…
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Retro Monday: “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow”
This weeks cold-open is rather scatter-shot… I have come to the realisation that, in terms of the UK game industry, I’m sort of jaded. Not sure why. I think it’s because a lot of the UK companies I grew up with are gone or changed hands. Edios went the way…
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Retro Monday: “EyeToy: Kinetic”
Title: “EyeToy Kinetic” Developer: SCE London Studio/Nike Motionworks Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Released: September 2005 (EU), November 2005 (US) Last week I talked about the EyeToy, Sony’s PlayStation 2 USB camera peripheral that spawned the likes of Microsoft’s Kinect. I also said that I would talk about an EyeToy…
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Retro Monday: “The Eye Toy”
Product: EyeToy Released for: PlayStation 2 Released on: October 2003 Made by: Logitech This is going to be another one of those look back at a thing rather then a game ‘Retro Monday’. Like what I said with the PSP. But that is because next week I’m going a…
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Retro Monday “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”
Title: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” Developer: Atari. Inc Publisher: Atari. Inc Released: December 1982 Not much has happened this week. Not just was this article made rather later then planned, but also with in the game world. It is GDC (Game Developer Conference) time and so not much happens except…
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Retro Monday “Blade II”
Retro Monday “Blade II” Developer: Mucky Foot Productions Publisher: Activision Released: September 2002 Last week, I talked about the “Blade” movie tie-in game and how badly it was designed and therefore terrible. Now, to go full circle, I will talk about the “Blade II” movie tie-in game which was badly…
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