After investing in an UltraSatan and a new joystick for my work-in-progress Atari STE, I settled into some further retro games fun and checked out a few chestnuts. Doing so eventually exposed a rather serious problem that I had missed earlier and in the long term could’ve caused […]
Announced a long time ago, the Intellivision Amico was billed as family friendly alternative to the higher profile console alternatives in the market. However delays to its launch (originally for October 2020) and subsequent drama over additional funding and spats with the community have raised a lot of […]
It wasn’t until hearing the news on the latest Kinda Funny XCast and then searching Kotaku where I learned that Mohammad Fahmi, the creator of Coffee Talk, had passed away last month. When Coffee Talk first arrived on Xbox it was in a genre I wasn’t familiar with […]
Though times have thankfully changed since I started my “Homebound” lists, I’ll keep going with things while I work through my favourites. This one was a long time coming and should have been out sooner but seeing as I’ve been playing recently on my new-old computer I can’t […]
Apart from the constant discussions of “will they or won’t they” with their popular franchises staying multiplatform, what makes me really interested about the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the mountain of intellectual property that comes with it. This is a company that has OVER FORTY YEARS […]
Now that I’ve settled in with my “new” Atari STE I wanted to get the mass storage issue resolved so I went the route of the UltraSatan device which emulates an Atari compatible external Hard Disk but supports storage sizes limited only by the SD cards you use. […]
News just dropped from Frontier Developments that they are no longer looking to develop the Odyssey expansion for the console versions of Elite Dangerous. The text is below but the original post can be found here. Greetings Commanders, Elite Dangerous is a game close to my heart. It’s no […]
It’s been six months since I last responded to news about the continuing development of Elite Dangerous and sadly not a lot has changed. Regular reports have been made on progress in fixing issues but the Odyssey expansion is still not out on consoles and despite improvements on […]
As reported by Windows Central and a shedload of other outlets, Sony made it’s own little moves with the planned acquisition of Bungie who were the creators of Halo before leaving Microsoft to go independent with Destiny. There’s been a lot of discussion on whether the 3.6 billion […]
Well… it wasn’t all that long ago we were all talking about Microsoft and Xbox joining forces with Bethesda and now the bombshell drops of Activision Blizzard joining Team Xbox. The full details of the announcement can be found here via Xbox Wire but much like the past […]
The story of one person’s attempts to make their Rampage Arcade1Up cabinet do more.
A look back at some of the games we've played on Xbox One over the years.
Our own tips and experiences while trying to make a living out in the black.
The Late Night Session 