And so the world is graced once again with another take on the hugely popular sci fi alien invasion story that is War of the Worlds. This time, in a computer game, the first since Jeff Waynes The War of the Worlds for the PC and the PS1 was released way back in 1998. The PC game was a real time strategy, the PS1 game was a first person shooter with an element of real time strategy. Now, we have a platformer. This isn’t really going to be a review. I like to review games once I’ve played more than just the demo. I also like to review games that I have played more than just the demo on a...

The Total War series has been going for a good few years now, 11 to be precise. In that time, The Creative Assembly have given gamers an insight into historical periods of war, from the 12th to 18th Century, even Roman times. For me, no other series of games have done this more effectively than the Total War series, and this time they’ve gone full loop and released a sequel to the first release, Shogun Total War, with Shogun 2 Total War. If I said I was a true fan of the series, then I would be to some degree lying. This is because I never played Napoleon Total War, nor Empire Total War. Neither...

I’ve been all NES-ed up recently. At the boot sale the other week I picked up an old Nintendo 64 for £15, together with Goldeneye and F1 Grand Prix. Since then, I’ve bought Micro Machines 64 Turbo (the Nintendo 64 port of Micro Machines V3) and two additional controllers for some 4 player goodness. That put me into a retro mood, and thus I dug out my old NES. I have spent most of my time since to restore it back to its original colour and to get the pins working on the connector. While I am busy working on that project, I wanted to just get on and play some NES games. So, I found Nemulator...