Retro

Sega have just announced their intention to re-release a raft of Mega Drive classics on PC through various digital distribution platforms including Steam…

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Portal is an entire book in the form of a game and by all rights should be a painful chore, but it’s actually the most (if not the only) successful attempt at blending gaming with a novel.

PUBLISHER: SCi Interplay DEVELOPERS: Stainless Games RELEASED: 1997 GENRE: Racing Carmageddon was a long time coming, and didn’t intend to be the “sickly, depraved piece of soul poison” (as Stainless Software founders Neil Barnden and Patrick Buckland called it in the manual introduction) it ultimately evolved into.

Sex pest Larry Laffer has been ‘swinging it’ for nearly two decades now, and if you consider where he’s been, he has some interesting stories to tell… We are all the product of our parents, and the old saying is certainly true of sex fiend Larry Laffer.

What do you get when you cross sword fighting with pirates, monkeys and a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle? Kim Wild dons a pirate hat and eye patch to chat with Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman about their swashbuckling classic…

1994: The year Lucas Arts went to the dark side. Total PC Gaming recaptures the magic with the next feature in their series of retro games rediscovered…

Duke Nukem 3D was irreverent, loud and shameless. It was the first FPS to show gamers that even a genre about killing people with the biggest guns possible could indulge in self-parody. Now that we’re inundated with FPS games, we have to ask: was DN3D really that special?

Fans of the decade always say the eighties will never die, but whether that’s true or not usually depends on your musical tastes.

I recently got back from a trip in Finland to Frozenbyte Studios- my first as an official TPCG card carrying team member, (badges, we don’t need no stinking badges!) and got to play Trine, a charming physics based 2D platform/ puzzle game that’s showing a great deal of promise.

So you could scan eBay for retro consoles for hours, flicking through thousands of irrelevant items and waste your life.