We’re all saddened to hear of the passing of David Bowie yesterday, at the age of 69. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. Quite apart from his music, David Bowie’s passing has brought to mind the oft-overlooked debut of one of gaming’s most-discussed directors. Way back in 1999, Quantic Dream’s first game […]
If we’re all willing to admit it, there’s at least one Guitar Hero accessory somewhere within our game rooms and a retired rock star in all of us. Having ditched the guitar, it’s time to grab the keyboard and revive our musical careers as Game Boy, Nintendo NES and other computer generated music has just […]
Many of our favourites gaming memories are from several decades ago, however, it’s safe to say that some of the hardware we once enjoyed has a limited shelf life. With this in mind talented gamers have begun creating aftermarket products such as flash cartridges and adaptors to ensure we can still get our fix even […]
In the later 90s a whole host of first person shooters began making their way onto home consoles alongside their PC counterparts. As great as this was, there was a real lack of consistency when it came to each game’s control scheme, often leaving gamers struggling to get to grips with the 3D worlds in […]
Back in the early Nineties, Atlus had grown from a publisher of console games into an ambitious outfit with designs on the arcade market. While the company would spend most of the decade in the coin-op game, its own developments were quickly sidelined in favour of publishing games from external developers, most notably Cave. However, […]
Atlus are well known for their prolific output in the RPG genre, but their roots spread out into various other areas of gaming history. Believe it or not but the Japanese game developers were gearing up the release of an all new vertical shooter for the arcades known as Wing Force in 1993, however, it’s […]
If you want to blame anything, blame Neo Turf Masters – I picked up the Neo Geo Humble Bundle just before Christmas, and returning to the arcade game gave me cravings for the pocket one I also loved. That caused me to bring my entire Neo Geo Pocket collection back to Bournemouth, and now I’m revisiting […]
RAGE (Really Amateur Games Expo), which was originally going to return last month on December 18th, is going to return for real this time on January 17th! If you don’t know what RAGE is, basically it’s a sort of game jam where you have five days to make the worst but also funniest fan game […]
If you’ve been with us since the very beginning, you’ll remember issue 8, pictured above – and you might well remember that we did a two-part feature on the top 100 games of all time beginning in that issue and concluding in issue 9. Of course, if you haven’t been with us all that long (and […]
Super Fighter Team who previously brought us the likes of Beggar Prince and Legend of Wukong are back with two more titles for the Mega Drive. Although announced over the last few years, both Magic Girl and Cascade are finally available to buy for Sega’s 16-bit juggernaut.