A great game lies nestled within the original design of Age Of Darkness: Final Stand but seemingly some combination of committee-thinking and lack of commitment to the vision has robbed players of what might have been. A lot of visible…
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I Gave Up On Obi-Wan Kenobi after ten minutes
…So you shouldn’t care about any of my opinions on it. Ten minutes into the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show, during a scene featuring ten-year-old Leia set to a soundtrack taken directly from a Hallmark TV movie, I stopped watching. So,…
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Rogue Command preview – Casual Futuristic Strategy
The second computer game I ever owned for the PC was, it later turned out, a revolutionary classic. As an awkward nine-year-old I didn’t realise it at the time, but Total Annihilation redefined real-time-strategy games when it was released, showing…
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Model Builder review – Precision Modelling Ad Tedium
… deeply, brutally unfun to “play”, much like real model building, but lacking any of the meditative qualities.
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Inscryption – Cycles Of Revelation
Inscryption is a beast of many faces that both rewards and punishes any attempt to review it. There is a rich complexity beneath the simplistic surface, and so much of the experience of playing Inscryption is based on discovery, on…
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