Before I begin, I should point out I’m a fan of Choon, a music service that combines music and crypto currency in order to create audio-based fun times and frolics. Since discovering the platform and signing up for it earlier in the year, I haven’t Read More …
Egad! I pop off on holiday for a couple of weeks and Sony go and release a full list of the titles they’re baking into the Playstation classic. Needless to say, the list has proved to be a little bit divisive. In fact, given that Read More …
Electronic Arts, eh. Why does everyone hate them so much? Ok, that’s a bit of an easy one to answer if I’m honest: Shutting popular studios, unleashing Origin, the legacy of the Ea Spouse stuff, the revolving door of controversies surrounding their Downloadable Content Policies. . Read More …
While i may spend a good chunk of my gaming time hanging in the early ’90s, i do keep tabs on what’s going on in the contemporary gaming world (and hey, i will get back into Elite: Dangerous at once point. Once it finishes updating, Read More …
After a week of cryptic shenanigans, The Oliver Twins have announced the discovery of a new Dizzy game! Hurrah! (As a side note, it’s Dizzy. Not Dizzy the Egg. Saying Dizzy the Egg is like saying Thomas a Becket. Just stop it.) Developed for Read More …
Well this is the stuff that (weird retro gamer’s) dreams are made of: Virgin Games’ supposedly unreleased Judge Dredd Spectrum game has turned up. On eBay. For £3.99 plus postage. It was posted in a thread over at the World Of Spectrum, which contains both the Read More …
So there are lots of people who are angry with Google’s new policy of screening all affiliate Youtube channels for content violations. This is because a lot of “lets play” folk are suddenly being hit with reviews and take downs. There are a lot of Read More …
So today I have two pieces of music for you. The first is the background music for “Ice Cap Zone” from Sonic 3 on the Megadrive:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24[/youtube] The second is an unreleased track called ‘Hard Times,’ written by obscure 80s New Wave act ‘The Jetzons’: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvnsriLZvL0[/youtube] Read More …
So the other day, 1morepodcastle host/Nintendo Legend author Eric Bailey posed an interesting question on twitter: What single video game has contributed more than any other to the public’s negative perception of gaming? — Eric Bailey (@Nintendo_Legend) July 2, 2013 Of course, a lot of Read More …
This goes a pretty long way : [youtube]http://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA[/youtube]
In 12 hours time, someone out there will be the proud owner of a Sega Pluto. What’s a Sega Pluto, i hear you ask? Well, it’s essentially a redesigned Saturn shell that combined both the Saturn console and the network peripheral in one device. Apparently Read More …
Someone shared this with me, so I’d thought I’d share in turn: Here’s a step-by-step guide for making your very own PIP-Boy, the Radiation Detector-cum-PDA from the Fall Out series. I wish i had the Mad Skillz required for this sort of thing: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-PIP-Boy/?ALLSTEPS
It’s with a heavy (and deeply surprised) heart that I bid farewell to another fantastic UK games developer – Sony Liverpool. While Psygnosis (or Sony Liverpool, as they became) may not have immediately come to mind if I were asked to name Read More …