Below is a list of ‘33 things wot you might find in Scotland’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if SKYFALL LODGE was present it might appear as SKYF LLLDG. BAGPIPER would be BGPPR.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
Having imprisoned you in his dungeon in the bowels of Mount Olympus, Emesdos, the Greek god of computer gaming, asks his customary question. You ponder for a few seconds, more out of seemliness than necessity, before responding with an unequivocal “MicroProse!”. If you have to spend Eternity playing the oeuvre of just one developer/publisher, then obviously> that oeuvre has to be the one that includes greats such as European Air War, Falcon 4.0, B-17 Flying Fortress, Mech Warrior, Colonization, and Civ.
Today in FP I talk to David Lagettie, the bold resurrectionist behind the recently announced MicroProse revival, share – possibly not for the first time – my most precious MicroProse memory, and sample one of the studio’s later sims. (more…)
Your deals herald has a truly bumper crop of PC gaming deals for you this weekend, with massive savings on everything from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Doom Eternal to Cities: Skylines and The Sims 4‘s Eco LifeStyle expansion. GOG have also added new deals to their Summer Sale, with a tasty new Witcher Collection and a bunch of new free games up for grabs. That’s in addition to all their free game demos going on, too. So let’s dispense with the chat and get stuck in, shall we? Here are the best PC gaming deals of the week.
Guerrilla Collective, the upcoming online showcase for indie developers, has been postponed until June 13th in support of Black Lives Matter. Originally due to start on the 6th, Guerrilla Collective is one of the many not-E3 digital events due to take place over the next couple of weeks, with lots of mystery announcements from a range of devs and publishers like Paradox Interactive and Larian Studios.
If you feel like your PC peripherals could do with an upgrade, then Logitech has a great value bundle for you at Currys PC World in the UK. It consists of a gaming keyboard, mouse and headset for a pretty pleasing price of £65, making it a great way to get everything you need in one money-saving package.
Remember when podcasts weren’t even a thing? Us neither. This week, you can join us in an ouroboros of podcasting where we, on a podcast about games, talk about games that we play whilst listening to podcasts. Come, stand betwixt these two mirrors with us!
Wow. Look at that summer sun slapping the face of the planet, like a big 12-hour camera flash. So hot, so clear-skied. A blessed day of walks in the park, trips to the beach, picnics by the litter bins. What a glorious day for wasps it is out there. Let’s all go to the…
Oh right. Forget I said anything. Go back inside, lock the doors, and consider some of these perfect virtual holiday destinations. Please, trust us with your fake vacation. After all, what is a games journalist but a sort of really dodgy travel agent?
Am I a bad dad for letting my daughter run around with a pet bear cub? Almost certainly given the circumstances, but seeing as how I’d already let her enlist a snail, magical rooster and a prickly hedgehog into her army of so-called ‘secret agents’, I thought it would be churlish, if not positively unfair, to deny her this new, grizzly companion. After all, my incompetent staff had either eaten or sat on the rest of her strange menagerie, and I did not want a repeat of more tears and tantrums in my already shambolic throne room. She promised she would feed it and look after it, and that was good enough for me.
Besides, when you’ve already got one daughter being held ransom by her tyrannical husband whose hostile army are breathing down your neck, not to mention precious few resources to help deal with your own belligerent peasants, a bear cub seemed like the least of my worries in Brave At Night’s medieval management RPG Yes, Your Grace, so I thought, what the heck? Might as well add another potential disaster to the pile.
‘s always had horror in its veins. From body-horror aliens lurching down steel corridors to Ravenholme’s infested nest of parasites, sawblades and the living dead, the series has been pushing spooking with its shooting since day one. Sporting more intimate, high-fidelity spooks, Half-Life: Alyx is no exception – and with a modding kit out in the open, it was only a matter of time ’til someone recreated Kojima Productions’ elusive PT in Valve’s new toolbox.
The dust is finally settling on the Epic Games Store’s giveaways. After a wild few weeks of big sales, surprise drops and store-crashing mystery guests, Epic are playing it safe by putting Overcooked back up for grabs. Almost a year on, the cooperative kitchen calamity is once again your freebie for the week, available to download and keep forever until this time next Thursday.
