games

Why the digital download revolution will suck from kestrel1977 15 days old

[ ... ] online games have so far, and I got into quite a state over the prospect of trying it out before (almost) everyone else. Predictably, my euphoria ...

Horror games give me the fear from kestrel1977 22 days old

[ ... ] horror games, because I'm a terrible coward. I still remember the moment, well over a dozen years ago, when I first experienced the scene in ...

How self-aware computers will change video gaming from kestrel1977 29 days old

[ ... ] games like The Sims. The first AI suicide will almost certainly occur in one of its future sequels. In fact, depression is probably the ...

Beaten by Bomberman from kestrel1977 36 days old

[ ... ] major games from the eighties/nineties era that I've never managed to play until now. This is doubly surprising when you consider that the ...

Smash TV - video games on the box from kestrel1977 50 days old

Video games have always endured a tortured relationship with television, in the UK at least; but for the occasional documentary on the industry or a ...

Parasol Stars - a forgotten masterpiece from kestrel1977 54 days old

Of all the games in Taito's Bubble Bobble lineage, Parasol Stars is among the least known. While Rainbow Islands has been ported to almost every computer, ...

Why pressing one button can be fun from kestrel1977 57 days old

[ ... ] to play games in this state? Driving games are out of the question: far too scary, what with all those crashes and everything. First person ...

Gaming's greatest aliens from kestrel1977 61 days old

It's been another weird gaming week. Following last time's encounter with the harsh realities of import gaming (my newly purchased PC Engine could ...

How I lost my heart - and my wallet - to a PC Engine from kestrel1977 71 days old

[ ... ] of the games themselves makes prices vary from around ten pounds for common titles to fifty or sixty pounds for a cherished classic like Parasol ...

Five more weirdest games ever from kestrel1977 78 days old

Readers with keen memories may remember my previous top five weird games from last year. And just to prove that mildly interesting ideas are worth ...