retrospective

Warren Spector on Deus Ex, 20 years on

"I think luck played a big role!"

Bulletstorm is best when it's being offensively stupid, not stupidly offensive

Cock Of The Walk

Is Myst still one of the worst games ever?

Yes, Myst is still one of the worst games ever

The original Far Cry is a bit of a hard sell, now it no longer has its looks

Primal

Daikatana is a game that lives down to its reputation

Don't gib it the time of day

Thief (2014) isn't as bad as you remember, but gosh, no, it's still not good enough

Dishonorable

Thief: Deadly Shadows will still have you fearing the light some 16 years on

A Keeper

Zork: Grand Inquisitor is the only pre-rendered, FMV game that should ever have been allowed

Frobozz Magic

Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders: The LucasArts game you don't want to play any more

She blows poodles over old noizglunk

Star Trek: Judgment Rites is a joyful anachronism from an impossible past

VVSOP2123

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary has so much to teach modern games

"That's a phaser, not a flashlight!"

Nine years on, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is still scary as all hell

Thanks for the memories

If you like Star Wars you should play the 22 year old Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2

A force for good

What Call Of Cthulhu and The Sinking City could learn from this interactive fiction classic

Tentacles at dawn

The best Halo has been on PC all along

A flood of praise

Hold it right there, you taffer - Thief is 20 years old today!

We live in its shadow

Ten years later, OFF lives ON

It's all kicking OFF

Puyo Puyo Tetris is a history lesson in competitive puzzles

New Testaments

Nioh brings a ballet of breathtaking violence

New Testaments

Planet X3 is a brand new CGA DOS game in development

Magenta pixels in spaaaaace!

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed turned the mascot racer into serious competition

New Testaments

The rise and fall of Super Monday Night Combat helped make me better

A final farewell

King’s Quest IV: A love letter from my 3-year-old heart

Learning from games

Even The Ocean shows us how good people let bad things happen

Political without being heavy handed

Spark the Electric Jester is more than mere homage

Not just Sonic in a new skin