Best of 2011 – Reviews From The Future: Video Gaming in Germany

Nominated by Markuz and Lorna

As has been previously established, I have access to a Time Machine. However, it only follows that it can only go back as far as to when it was created, and can only travel as far as to when the…

Best of 2011 – Protagony

Nominated by Ed and Lorna

I’m not sure I can bring myself to go through this again today. The pointless repetition wouldn’t be so bad if now and again I could at least have time to reflect and take stock of everything, but the chance…

Best of 2011 – Generation Game

Nominated by Ed and Richie

As time and gaming progress, it can be easy to feel left behind, for that ‘Werther’s Original’ generation thing to become less of a joke and more of a sobering reality. Teens and even gamers in their early twenties have…

Best of 2011 – Me, Myself, and I: The Single Player’s Lament

Nominated by Richie

It’s not that I don’t like Multiplayer. Multiplayer fans, its not that I don’t like you… well some of you. The constant encroachment of multiplayer into my gaming life is getting to the point where it’s putting me off buying some games.…

The Book Of Unwritten Tales – Review

I never did play the Monkey Island games.  By the time my beloved text adventure had crawled from its ASCII crib via the crude storybook style graphic adventure of The Hobbit, and experimented its way through puberty to the animated stylings of the LucasArts stable,…

Position Of Power

After my last adventure I was sure that would be the last of it. I had gone through a hell of an ordeal and risked life and limb so many times that I lost count in all the excitement. I met and lost countless people,…

Dizzy iOS – Review

It’s an odd time to be a old-school gamer. On the negative side, modern gaming is a load of rubbery old bollocks, with every other game being a cover-based shooter or something equally tedious.  We’re also being fucked nearly constantly by software houses that have…