Doom 3 BFG Edition Review
So this takes me back. In the early 90s I played through Doom, then Doom 2, and then replayed them, and then played them some more. I found their every…
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Meirion Jordan
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Meirion Jordan is a Welsh poet, editor and critic. He has published three volumes of poetry and has performed his work in the UK and in Europe. In his time off from gaming he can usually be found in a traditional pub session, playing fiddle with his ceilidh band.
Always Sometimes Monsters Review
Since The Witcher 3 is, by my reckoning, one of the best role-playing games to be produced in years, it’s an extraordinary curse to be an RPG up for review…
Age of Civilizations Asia Review
There are plenty of types of strategy game that don’t work so well on your average tablet: complex real-time strategy; detailed empire-building games from the 4X lineage; wargames that try…
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD Edition Review
I think it’d be fair to say that the only way you could have missed the HD re-release of fantasy strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic 3 was if…
Medieval Wars: Strategy and Tactics Review
Imagine living in medieval times. Imagine going out to plough your fields or water your chickens (or whatever) every day, dressed in the obligatory studded leather and bits of armor,…
Frontline: The Longest Day Review
Pity the poor soldiers of World War 2 wargames. So often nameless, with only the barest of pixellated faces to call their own, their voices go unremarked next to the…
Godus Review
HERE BEGINNETH THE BOOK OF GODUS CHAPTER 1 1:1 Lo, and in days of yore a man named St. Peter of Molyneux arose in the land of Guildford, and he…
Kingdom Rush Origins Review
Because I was abducted by a wizard riding a griffin and imprisoned in a magical cave for the last five years, I didn’t play the first two Kingdom Rush games…
Civilization Revolution 2 Review
It must suck to be the brother of a famous rock star. There’s the family resemblance, the one that makes strangers hurry obsequiously across the street towards you, so that…
Vega Conflict Review
One of the fun side-effects of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is that by playing with space, we can bend and alter time. A case in point would be the…
Anomaly Defenders Review
It’s not often that I receive genuine bona-fide messages from the future. So you can imagine my surprise when, on downloading the 800 megabytes of Anomaly Defenders I was greeted,…
Tower Dwellers Review
If I dwelt in a tower (rather than lived in it – dwelling seems to imply that people haven’t invented TVs or fridges yet), I’m pretty sure I’d want to…