Retro Spectives

The Metroidvania genre has a long and complicated history, but the game that invented the modern model is without a doubt Super Metroid.  Released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo, it blew critics away ...

9 Nov 20201h 19min

The first Thief game was widely beloved, and critically acclaimed, but not entirely free of criticism.  The gawking masses loved sneaking around the mansions of the wealthy, but were not too hot on th...

26 Okt 20201h 34min

The Super Mario franchise is what many would label as the dawn of videogames. While it wasn't the first, its impact on the infant medium of gaming was certainly the biggest and to this day the franchi...

12 Okt 20201h 16min

The Lord Of The Rings is unquestionably the most impactful fantasy work ever written.  And in 2001, Peter Jackson did what many thought was impossible, bringing Tolkien’s vision to the big screen in a...

28 Sep 20201h 8min

Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is a difficult game to explain. It was first released for the original Xbox in 2004 by the Korean Studio Phantagram, and tries to fuse real-time strategy with action ...

14 Sep 20201h 32min

First released in the year 2000 for windows, The Operative: No One Lives Forever (NOLF) was widely praised as the best FPS released since Half Life.  The game openly celebrates the Spy genre, feeling ...

31 Aug 20201h 31min

First released in 2006 by the now famous Arkane Studios, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was considered a niche hit on release.  Making use of the revolutionary physics of the source engine, it turned...

17 Aug 20201h 40min

In Splinter Cell  you play as Sam Fisher, an ex Navy Seal brought out of retirement by the NSA to combat the growing threat of cyber terrorism.  Unlike your typical gung-ho hero,  Sam operates stealth...

3 Aug 20201h 33min