Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category

Retro gaming pleasure for your ears here. The history of PC sound card development, told with the theme from Monkey Island. Makes you long for the PC gaming golden age of the mid-90s.

Well… it is free.

I’m love Metal Gear Solid. It’s possibly my favourite series of games on consoles. I’m deep into playing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on PS3 at the moment, where all strands of the long and complex saga are being woven together to complete the story of Solid Snake. There have been several [...]

One might wonder how they can possibly keep improving a game like Civilization. Though, truth be told, I’m really only up to Civ III at the moment. Never had a PC fast enough to run Civ IV, so chances are, I will probably be unlikely to run this one either. Of the scant details announced, [...]

Modern MMORPGs came about 10 years too late for me to devote countless hours to. I most certainly would have with Star Wars Galaxies, maybe even World of Warcraft, and quite possibly Star Trek Online too. I guess it’s for the best that I don’t have time to spare, as it would be easy to [...]

I know Transformers is one of those great franchises (I hate that word), that has never worked as a videogame (or a Michael Bay movie for that matter). But still, this does look cool, as pre-rendered trailers so often do. New Cybertronian vehicle forms, recognisable G1 character traits, the awesome transforming landscape, Peter Cullen (of [...]