The fighting genre has been one of the cornerstones of videogames, and remains hugely popular to this day. Even though it was over 30 years ago, I still remember being enthralled by the likes of Way of the Exploding Fist, Yie Ar Kung Fu, and Barbarian. Don’t get me wrong, I loved beat-em ups like […]
Jenny LeClue Detectivú is an adventure game developed and published by Mografi. The basic plot of the game is: less-than-celebrated author, Arthur K. Finklestein has written over thirty books in the Jenny LeClue series; however, sales are plummeting and his publishers are demanding something different, they want Jenny to solve a murder. Arthur eventually caves […]
Football (soccer for our American readers), cricket, tennis, rugby…all popular sports here in the UK, and all of them have zero appeal to me. For almost 40 years now I’ve much preferred American sports. Give me American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, et al, both as a spectator sport and as a sports based video […]
Blending genres in video games is a really tricky thing to pull off. Add too many different types of gameplay and you end up being a jack of all trades and master of none. But do it just right, and you can create a really compelling game like Lair of the Clockwork God, which mixes […]
2020 has been an incredible year for gamers of a certain vintage. Firstly, we had the amazing Streets of Rage 4 which was the ultimate tribute fans of the series (including me) had been waiting for. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any better, along comes a love letter to Sega arcade racing games […]
Every now and then you play a game and realise you’ve just experienced something totally unique. As a gamer of nearly 40 years, this doesn’t happen very often so when it does, you have to savour the moment. I had one of those moments playing BPM: Bullets Per Minutes, so let me tell you why. […]
Two things I like are: Zombies. Though only in movies and games. Don’t think I’d be too keen to meet one in real life. Silly humour. Give me Rik Mayall in ANYTHING and I’m laughing like mad. Deadly Days takes the 2 things from above, mixes them in with a whole load of other stuff, […]
I enjoy racing games and have done so for many years. Although they aren’t my favourite genre of videogame, I like to get behind the wheel of a virtual car and burn some rubber as much as the next person. If you ever speak to me about racing games, you will definitely hear me talk […]
True confession time: I’ve never watched the Peaky Blinders TV series, so can’t comment on its use of characters or franchise storylines within this game. With that out of the way, let’s get onto the review. Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a strategy game set across 10 levels, where you control a variety of characters to […]
A few years ago, I was complaining to someone about how bad the controls were when I was playing a videogame. I can’t remember the exact game, but that doesn’t really matter. The person I was chatting to said, “go and play QWOP and then complain about controls.” Seeing this as a personal challenge, I […]