All Hail the Physicists!

As in my previous post about the ArcAttack madmen, here is another lovely example of physicists (who are quite possibly a little mad – I mean this in the nicest possible way) taking something that would ordinarily have quite dull scientific properties and uses, and turning it into something highly entertaining. Tennis For Two is [...]

Can you really play games on a PC?

Now that might seem like a silly, even ridiculous and redundant title, but bare with me. It was all in the interest of keeping titles snappy and short, but what I’d really liked it to have said was:
‘Can you really play games on a PC, in the sense that it is comparable with the full gamut [...]

What ever happened to the world map?

I’ve been playing Crisis Core on PSP a lot recently. In actual fact, I bought a PSP pretty specifically for this title, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Although when I say I’ve played it ‘a lot’, what that means in reality is that I’ve played it for 17 hours and have already beaten the [...]

I’ve Seen The Future, and It’s 2D

Power is king in this day and age. Our processors must be faster, our graphics cards must have more memory, and our consoles are about to become self aware. The quest for higher frame rates, more polygons on screen, and the most spectacular explosions is all-consuming in the gaming world. Why is it, then, that [...]

A Boy and His Blob – The Most Adorable Game Ever?

Yes, I think it genuinely might be.
I remember the original A Boy and His Blob when it was released in Europe in 1991, and it was a sweet concept then (pardon the pun). A young boy is joined by gelatinous blob named Blobert (or Blob, to his friends) and together they quest across Earth and Blobolonia [...]

Review – Dinosaur King (DS)

Educational games always feel that little bit… peculiar. They’re slightly strange and alien, and not always in a bad way, but there’s always something not quite right. It feels a little like your first kiss (and given most of the target age-group of educational games won’t have had one of those yet, allow me to [...]

Review – Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (DS)

There used to be feeling among the hardcore Final Fantasy fans that you weren’t truly hardcore unless you had played Final Fantasy Tactics. The main Final Fantasy series was widely available and spin-offs such as Mystic Quest and the SaGa/Legend series were considered watered down. Tactics was just plain hard to get your hands on [...]

Review – Pool Party (Wii)

Everybody knows that looks aren’t everything. We also know that we’re not to judge a book by its cover. This are very good philosophies and excellent values to be teaching the younger folk in society, yet however hard we try not to, every now and again we do it automatically. I did it with Pool Party – and I’m not proud of myself for that…

Review – Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen (DS)

Do you ever get the distinct feeling that you’ve been somewhere before, even though you know there’s no chance you ever could have been? It’s like a kind of déjà-vu, only a little more unsettling, because while it’s entirely plausible that the same black cat that crossed your path two minutes ago could have gone [...]

Missing in action…

I seem to have disappeared for about a year. I’m awfully sorry, it wasn’t supposed to happen. If it makes it sound any better, I was being held against my will by an evil foreign government who were torturing me for national secrets? No, I thought not – I’ve just been a bit busy, really. [...]