I have to admit I do have a bit of a soft spot for RTS games which has existed ever since I discovered both Red Alert 2 and Starcraft at around the same time many years ago. At the time, commanding armies in large scale battles was so exciting, and while I’ve never been particularly brilliant at thi...
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Septic Tank
Venting spleen about games can sometimes be as therapeutic as eulogising about them. There’s nothing quite like building up a head of steam and then just letting it rip via the safety valve of pouring your bile and hatred out onto the blank page of a word processor ...
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Those of you of a certain age will look back fondly on the single-screen top-down racers of old. Super Sprint, Ivan “Iron Man” S...
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Who’d be a game geek in the summertime?
You know what the weather’s like at the moment? Back in 2002 it was just as hot. Any sane rational human being was out in the sunshine, soaking up the rays while listening to tinny music on their portable radios, sipping on a drink clinki...
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We were recently invited by the good people at Chillingo to interview the two creators of upcoming iPhone game Touch KO, Adam and Matt Mechtley. Here’s what they had to say:
AATG: Let’s talk about your new iPhone game Touch KO. How did the idea of creating a boxing game ...
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Punch-Drunk Love
Manny ‘PacMan’ Pacqiuao’s recent second-round demolition of Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton is a perfect metaphor for the differences between EA’s Fight Nights Round 3 and 4. ...
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The C64 offers up a rich seam of untapped retro classics ripe for revival...
...and the iPhone / iPod Touch offer the perfect platform for quite a few classic games from an era when 38911 bytes free was "more than you'd ever need".
Looking at Archon back in t...
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Shoot from the hip
Pinball tables seem to be having something of a renaissance for me since the iPhone landed in my pocket and they've been feeding my gaming habit in a way not seen since Pinball Dreams on the Amiga back in the early 1990s.
Hardly surprising rea...
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Defence is the best form of attack.
Following on from my recent roundup of word games for the iPhone/iPod Touch, I decided this week to take a look at the tower defense genre. A popular genre as i...
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I've got what I need to go hunting. Rifle and scope, binoculars, deer call and an ever handy HunterMate. A GPS, tracking aid and game device all rolled into one. The HunterMate is used a bit like the Far Cry 2 GPS. It's held up in front of you as you stalk through the woods, when you encounter sig...
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I’m little bit torn on what direction to take here.
It’s tempting to launch straight into the trusted old “movie tie-in” thing and drone on about Goldeneye and E.T, but it feels a little too obvious and frankly those reviews always end up the same anyway (this comes somewhere in the ...
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