Shropshire is like pipe smoking tobacco, Last of the Summer Wine box sets and spleens: you’ll never need them, but it’s nice to know that they’re there. It’s the home of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and Ditherington flax mill, … Read more
When I was younger, I did two paper rounds every morning, which provided me with the then-massive weekly income of £9. I would be paid this on a Saturday and, if West Ham were playing away, would convert this into … Read more
I found this free in-browser game last night called Mars Explorer. Designed by a remarkable 18-year-old chap called Aubrey Falconer, Mars Explorer puts you in control of a space buggy in a small 3D environment that is meant to resemble … Read more
Paradroid was excellent. Geography homework competed with it in the manner of plankton competing with a blue whale, and Andrew Braybrook – the game’s creator – must bear at least some responsibility for a wave of poor O Level results … Read more
I downloaded Lost Winds yesterday and completed it this afternoon. Lost Winds is an adventure platformer made by Frontier Developments for Nintendo’s WiiWare series. While the world and characters are in 3-D, the game controls in 2-D, with sideways movement … Read more
Dino Run is a free flash side-scroller developed by Pixeljam. You are a yellow dinosaur trying to escape extinction, running and jumping from left to right, away from a wave of mutilation. The game is about timing your jumps and … Read more
In the last few years there have been a shedload of movie-videogame tie ins. Most of these efforts have been lame. But as the video game industry has grown Hollywood has taken an interest – well more than it … Read more
I was recently looking for freeware games I could play on my laptop. I would have been okay with a Tetris or Marble Madness clone, but I emerged with Dōkutsu Monogatari (Cave Story), a non-linear platformer that evidently took the … Read more
We’re a little bit late on the uptake with this one, largely because our mates over at NeoEmpire never remember to tell us when they’re launching new stuff, but nevertheless those awesome chaps, along with DNA of Electronic Dojo have … Read more
Set someone free in a game world and they will do their best to test the limits, whether it’s finding the altitude ceiling in a flight simulator or walking up to the horizon in a game like Hunter (Amiga/Atari ST). … Read more