Revolution Software has reached its 25th anniversary, and has gone all out in announcing a special box set to commemorate the occasion. Revolution: The 25th Anniversary Collection contains all of the company’s original games to date, as well as Broken Sword and Beneath A Steel Sky comics, an audio CD, a Broken Sword USB stick […]
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Umihara Kawase Trilogy Returning to Steam after Brief Delisting
One of the perils of digital storefronts is that when a game’s gone- such as when a license gets pulled, or the licenseholder goes out of businses- it’s gone forever. That might’ve been the fate of the Umihara Kawase trilogy of physics-based platformers on Steam, but they’re getting a second chance on the 28th […]
How Fleetway Played The Games, Part 8: Of Flickies and Space Marines
Goodness, has it really been a year since the last time we visited the world of Sonic the Comic? Well, as time marches on, so does the progress in our quest, as we cover the penultimate game adaptation in the Fleetway series – Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (Or Sonic 3D: Blast, as the Yanks might […]
The Huffington Post Takes a Look at the Michael Jackson Sonic 3 Music Connection
In the Sonic Internet community, there have been few stories that have captured the imagination like the tale of Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s music. With a feel unique from the previous two entries in the series, the discussion of just who composed what have filled untold pages of conversation for well over a decade. The […]
HuffPo Explores Michael Jackson-Sonic 3 Music Collab
In the Sonic Internet community, there have been few stories that have captured the imagination like the tale of Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s music. With a feel unique from the previous two entries in the series, the discussion of just who composed what have filled untold pages of conversation for well over a decade. The […]
Fastest Food Alive: A look back at the 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion
As we near 25 years of Sonic the Hedgehog, I wanted to kick off a video series looking back at an aspect of the franchise that has always been a favorite of mine – food promotions! From McDonald’s to Topps to Carl’s Jr and beyond, SEGA has teamed their flagship franchise with some of the […]
Hands on with the Just Speccy 128 by Zaxon
Whats wrong with a normal Speccy anyway? As anyone who ever owned a ZX Spectrum will testify, loading from tape could sometimes be a frustrating affair, what with misaligned heads, dropouts and all manner of other things causing the dreaded ‘R Tape loading error, 0:1‘. Loading times were another bugbear – being able to make […]
Retro Review: Blood II: The Chosen (PC)
Not every 3D-shooter had the same success as the critically-acclaimed Quake series. Monolith hastily cranked out a sequel to the super-violent, cult-classic Blood, a Duke Nukem 3D-like shooter with bucket-loads of giblets, horror references and dark humour. It was a challenging game, featuring maze-like levels ranging from raided urban areas to barren winter wastelands, all […]
Missing In Action: Nintendo 64’s Long Lost Classics – Part 3
The Nintendo 64 is an ideal ‘what if’ console. Unfinished titles are literally popping out of the wood work on an almost monthly basis now, so technically this series of articles could go on for a while. So sit back, grab a brew and relive the days when games were cancelled at the last minute […]
Hardware Review: Rhea / Phoebe – SD Card Enabled Sega Saturn CD Drive Replacement
With countless titles being ported to the Sega Saturn from the coin-ops, along with unique experiences such as Panzer Dragoon Saga, the 1994 console has quite the strong following. One fan of the system in particular though has pretty much immortalised the Saturn for future generations, by providing the flash cartridge experience on the CD […]