Film Review: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Back in April 2019, the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer was released. It’s fair to say that it was poorly received; it looked visually flat, had Gangsta’s Paradise as aural […]
Film Review: Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest
I’m a bit weird when it comes to music. I struggle with most songs that have lyrics, mostly because I find them so hard to ‘hear’ unless I know what’s […]
Board Game Review: Duelosaur Island
My dinosaur obsession – or, perhaps more specifically, my dinosaur theme park obsession, thanks to Jurassic World: Evolution – has spilled over from the TV screen to the tabletop, with two player board game Duelosaur Island being the latest way I’ve discovered to scratch that very particular itch. The little brother of critical and commercial darling, Dinosaur Island – a […]
Film Review: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
First things first: I hate that stupid title. It’s incredibly appropriate that the first time we see Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm – the mathematician/chaos theorist who was so […]
Film Review: Jurassic Park (1993)
I blame Jurassic World: Evolution. I’ve been immersing myself in the creation of dinosaurs and the running of multiple theme parks for weeks on end, which has led to me […]
Review: Jurassic World: Evolution
I realise that I’m very late to the party with this one but – having spent most of 2019 covering indie and retro games – I’ve realised that I hadn’t […]
Book Review: Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games
Much like Paul Davies, the author of Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games, I grew up in the 80s. Also like Paul Davies, I have limited recollection of ‘important’ experiences […]
Dreamcast 20th Anniversary: Memories
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Dreamcast’s launch in Europe – having launched in Japan in late ’98 and in the US on the 9th of September 1999. Being […]
Blazing Chrome
Version Played: Xbox One, via Game Pass (Also available on PS4, Switch and PC) The Contra series was absolutely huge in the 80s and 90s. Across arcade as well as […]
Dreamcast 20th Anniversary – Three Stories
I’m a little late to the party on this one, considering it was the Dreamcast’s 20th birthday yesterday. Many people took the time yesterday to share memories of their favourite […]
Games Of My Life: Jurassic Park – SNES
It’s hard to articulate the effect that Jurassic Park – the film – had on cinema when it arrived in 1993. Though CGI special effects had been utilised in a number of prior films – most notably in The Abyss, with its amazing sentient water ‘creature’ in 1989, then another James Cameron film in 1991: Terminator 2, with what were, […]
Games of My Life: The Lawnmower Man – SNES
I sometimes write about games from my past, with a bit of background on myself and what these games have meant to me at different times in my life. The […]
Games of My Life: Bank Panic – Master System
It’s been well documented both on my blog and elsewhere on the interwebs – usually on Twitter – that the first console I could ever call my own was the […]
Demon’s Tilt – PC
I have a lot of love for pinball – I covered it quite extensively in my Creature from the Black Lagoon article, which may as well just have been a […]
Mission Impossible (1996)
I’ve yet to see Mission Impossible: Fallout, but I’ve heard so many good things about it that I’ve decided to rewatch the Mission Impossible movies in sequence. The last few […]
Is this the weirdest use of a license in gaming history?
For pretty much the entire history of gaming, there’s been an appetite for games based on films, books, TV shows and comics. For example – and these are by no […]
