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Time for a round-up of how I’ve spent my gaming time lately and I have to admit, it’s mostly been in yet another renaissance of the mighty State of Decay 2 – easily the best zombie game on any gaming platform to my mind – all triggered by the enticing reveals of the forthcoming next instalment, which […]
I mean, would you look at that? Retro-gamer heaven, right? I recently spent a day with a few friends at Arcade Club, a small franchise providing an old-school arcade experience in a few locations around the UK, and I can thoroughly recommend it. You pay an entry fee, get a wristband and then dive into […]
This month for me in PC games, the city-builder Surviving Mars by Haemimont Games via the mighty Paradox Interactive is undisputed royalty, but this recommendation comes with a health warning. I picked the game up a while back and got around to giving it a go this month, intending one of my quick tests to […]
Settle down people, because this month has been all about waiting out the countdown to the release of Aliens: Fireteam. I think it’s excellent, delivering exactly what it says on the tin. You’re one of a three-person team (preferably multiplayer for best experience) comprising character tropes from the Cameron film, the vibe of which it nails from the […]
I’ve been working my way through the much hyped and then equally maligned Cyberpunk 2077 on PC of late – it’s another of those sitting-at-a-time type open-world type games I like to pick up, play for a few hours and put down again, and I thought it was worth a few words. I’m also going […]
I’ve tried to give a game which was an impulse purchase from an age ago a spin recently to see if it can hold my attention on the second attempt – namely Grey Goo by Greybox. Though the title sounds like something aimed at very young people, it’s actually a gloriously retro tactical level RTS […]
As a writer of both sarcastic and extremely aggressive robot characters, I’m naturally interested in any developments in the field of AI… that my laughably primitive, non-scientific brain can actually understand and process, that is. Mainstream media understandably has its own obsessions at the moment and consequently, amazing developments happen under the radar. Perhaps some […]
Having managed to get a fully functioning DOSBox (and Amiga and C64…) emulator running on an Android tablet I’ve been enjoying some of the highlights of gaming from the days of yore for the first time in years. Most notably, the mighty sci-fi strategy simulation Carrier Command – there’s a great little sci-fi concept in […]
I love Taur. For those who haven’t had the pleasure, it’s described on Steam as an “action-strategy sci-fi game”, but its lineage is that of the well-stocked tower-defence genre where the emphasis is very much on the action. You control the mighty Prime Cannon, which you must constantly upgrade and supplement from the tech tree, […]
