There is a Light and it Never Goes Out

[February 5, 2013] "Adventure games are to be savoured like a fine meal, not eaten like junk food" - Ron Gilbert

Burn, Burn, Yes You’re Gonna Burn

[February 3, 2013] WARNING: May cause pyromaniacal tendencies.

The Loneliest and Most Brutal of American Cities

[July 30, 2012] Team Bondi's gum-shoe hit is more or less a point 'n' click adventure game for the new generation, which brings along with it both good and bad.

One Game Closer to Death #9 – Fieldrunners

[July 23, 2012] My first thought was of the amount of money I was going to have to shell out to play another tower defence game...

One Game Closer to Death #8 – Operation Wolf

[July 18, 2012] That's lovely and everything... but where are the wolves?

One Game Closer to Death #7

[July 16, 2012] I can see why this game was so highly praised at the time of release: the original premise and play mechanics stood out a mile against a backdrop of cookie cutter 3D platformers and racing games.

Same Game, Different Name or The Secret Origins of Just Cause 2

[April 11, 2012] I couldn't shake an eerie sense of deja vu; a strange nagging sensation in the back of my skull was telling me I'd done all this before.

The Problem with Perfection, or Why Tetris Sequels Suck

[April 10, 2012] Move a piece, rotate it one of two ways and plonk it down. Two buttons and a d-pad. You need nothing more.

My Name is Kyle Katarn and I’m a PC

[February 17, 2012] Out went the creaky Tandy 286 and its anachronistic DOS word processing and spreadsheet software and in came a shiny new Windows 95 machine...

One Game Closer to Death #6

[June 20, 2011] Hur, hur! He said 'ass'.