After recently posting about how great I think Star Raiders is it was to my great surprise when I first heard it recently on the the Giant Bomb Podcast and later the AtariAge forums that Aric Wilmunder, one time Atari employee and long time LucasArts (nee Lucasfilm Games) developer/legend, released not only […]
The following is my take on recent shenanigans in Elite: Dangerous – so prepare to either be amused at my lack of pilot skills or disappointed at my lack of backbone. 😉 Last night Grocs and I were trying our hand at some Wings in Elite: Dangerous on […]
A mighty big patch for Elite: Dangerous rolled out today for Xbox One that was notable for me in that it fixes a recent bug I had come across with the game crashing when attempting to salvage cargo. So to see it top of the list below made […]
With Oculus finally taking preorders for their Rift Virtual Reality headset, a line has been drawn in the sand for both its launch date and the price point that the company feels is acceptable for the consumer market. With three companies all introducing their own takes on the technology it […]
Over my holidays I managed to finally get a chance to play through the main story to Witcher 3’s first expansion, Hearts of Stone. CD Projekt RED really know how to make a worthwhile expansion and this new addition to Geralt’s story is fantastic. Honestly I didn’t think I could […]
Atari has been associated with many popular video games over the decades however there is one that is spoken little of today whose influence in multiple genres shouldn’t be forgotten as it may be one of the most important games they ever produced. Star Raiders is a real-time 3D space combat simulator developed […]
This is old news for some, but for anyone whose recently bought into classic gaming through sites like GOG.com and then been disappointed with the quality of the MIDI music via Microsoft’s default driver, there is an alternative that may just become one of the nicest additions you […]
The landscape of movies and television changed a lot in Australia this year thanks to a big push by Internet based streaming services. Where previously viewers were resorting to either VPNs to the USA for Netflix and Hulu or illegal torrents we were finally seeing much of the popular content releasing […]
2015 was a year that saw “Definitive Edition” ports of games finally start to take a back seat to new content on consoles whilst also seeing all the platforms finally start carving out their own niches to make them each unique. So even if we are more PC and […]
It’s been thirty two years since Return of the Jedi brought the original Star Wars trilogy to a conclusion and fans have been desperately wanting to know the fate of their favourite characters since that time. Now with the newly Disney-ified Lucasfilm we get to see that in […]