Archive for January, 2012

#378 Half-Life

Posted: 30th January 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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119th played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Valve Publisher: Sierra Entertainment ย Oh, Half-Life, how happy I am to see you again. Imagine me, over a decade ago, seeing this game played over at my cousin’s place, and having some tries. Amazed at the graphics. Marvelling at the […]

#871 Wipeout HD

Posted: 26th January 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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118th played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: SCE Studio Liverpool Publisher: SCEE Remember when PSN broke down and people had their credit card numbers stolen? Good times, good times… anyway. As a holder of a PSN account so that I could register trophies on a former housemates PS3 […]

#864 Saints Row 2

Posted: 22nd January 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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117th played so far Genre: Adventure/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC/PS3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Volition, Inc. Publisher: THQ Right, although this is really Peter’s pick for a game, I’m writing the intro. Now that means I don’t know as much of the game as he would, beyond what I’ve seen while playing. The […]

#947 One-Dot Enemies

Posted: 18th January 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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116th played so far Genre: Action Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Kenji Eno Publisher: Studio-Kura Today is going to be a bit of a short one since, with the exception of Little Computer People, this has very little for us to cover. Sorry if this seems lazy but… here’s One-Dot Enemies. Our Thoughts […]

#834 Far Cry 2

Posted: 14th January 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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115th played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Remember when we played a lot of shooting games in a row and then suddenly it all went quiet for a month on that front? Well the shooter is back and it […]

#119 Defender of the Crown

Posted: 10th January 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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114th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Kellyn Beck Publisher: Cinemaware Here’s a bit of a blast from the past for me. You see, Defender of the Crown is one of those games I played lots on the NES (borrowing it several times) and one of the games I […]

#258 Tekken

Posted: 6th January 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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113th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade, Playstation Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Ah Tekken, you were the franchise that started my love for the humble beat ’em up game. Technically Tekken 2 is the game that got me into them… but since this is where the whole thing began I […]

2011: List Predictions

Posted: 3rd January 2012 by Mulholland in Uncategorized

Whenever we pick up a gaming magazine and have a flick through the reviews and previews there is a consistent thought that โ€œif the list was redrafted would this make it?โ€ It has been over a year since we started this blog and many gamers appear to agree that 2011 may have been one of, […]

#482 Maximo: Ghosts to Glory

Posted: 2nd January 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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112th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom ย So from one knight to another. Today we’re discussing Maximo, a guy who went out on a quest, came back, found his kingdom taken over by an evil chancellor, his princess kidnapped, and tries to get all of […]