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Spelunky HD 12 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
What a pleasant tableu! As I’m sure a lot of you know, after many months of staring enviously at XBox360 owners and their lovely, enhanced, HD version of the excellent Spelunky, us PC owners finally ...
I’m Steamin’ 23 Jul 2013 | 11:57 pm
“Someone get the Cillit Bang” Did you get anything nice in the Steam sales, then? I got: Hugely addictive, awesomely-soundtracked, repetitive in a good way, “retro-styled” (e.g. sprite-based and ac...
Totally 1 Jul 2013 | 10:56 pm
What’s going on here? FUN! Totally Tiny Arcade is great, it’s just fucking great. I don’t want to explain too much because you should download a copy (it’s free) and discover it yourself but it’s bas...
Like Pac-Man, only not like Pac-Man 19 Jun 2013 | 12:43 am
What would Pac-Man look like in reverse? Going by the name Nam-Cap (DYS?), this game takes what sounds like a four-pints-later pub conversation gambit and turns it into an actual videogame. The player...
Outrun Europa – now with added colour 9 Jun 2013 | 01:39 am
If you’ve not seen it yet this World of Spectrum thread is an excellent example of a kind of videogame arcaeology and restoration. For those who don’t know the story, Outrun Europa was originally hera...
Recommend-o-me 14 May 2013 | 10:53 pm
A quick recommendation for a simple but addictive and extremely playable highscore game. Antibody is an arena shooter where the player controls some kind of bug in the middle of circular area which ha...
Ravenholm or bust! 26 Apr 2013 | 01:03 am
It won’t come as any surprise to readers here that I tend to play most games at a distance of several years from everyone else. Having an out of date PC until last year “helped” in that regard and rep...
Having an easy weekend? 20 Apr 2013 | 07:09 pm
Presumably thinking we were all taking it far too easy this weekend, Dave Hughes of Endless Forms Most Beautiful fame decided to set us all a highscore challenge on the World of Spectrum forums. The b...
Interesting Top 50 shocker 24 Mar 2013 | 08:14 pm
I usually roll my eyes when yet another internet critic decides to give us his “top 10″ or “top 50″ videogames for this or that platform (or “of all time” which inevitably actually means it will be li...
“Itsa me, I’m a lady!” 13 Mar 2013 | 11:50 pm
I’m sure most of you have seen this already, but if you haven’t take a look at this hack of Donkey Kong with the gender roles reversed. Now we just need a hack of the Temple of Doom arcade machine whe...