As we all know, Christmas is a time for both giv­ing and receiv­ing. The UCHG have a habit of exchang­ing par­tic­u­larly mar­vel­lous bits of retro gam­ing periph­ery; gift results have in the past included mul­ti­ple Alex Kidd games and light­guns in all … Continue read­ing →

It has long been rumored that the way we play games is chang­ing. The days of sit­ting in a dark­ened room bash­ing out high scores and tak­ing down end bosses are sup­pos­edly num­bered. It is also said that the launch of … Continue read­ing →

On Friday of this week I was lucky enough to attend a shoot­ing school that has pro­duced some of the UK’s finest clay pigeon shoot­ers. The aim of the day was to beat my Dad on a shoot con­sist­ing of 25 clays over … Continue read­ing →

If you cast your mind back to February 2010 you may well remem­ber a lit­tle post on the old UCHG about 3D gam­ing. If you are unable to cast your mind back any fur­ther than the last few min­uets you can … Continue read­ing →

At UCHG HQ, we’ve got so much stuff — games num­ber in their hun­dreds, for con­soles that many peo­ple nowa­days wouldn’t even recog­nise. By now, we’ve man­aged to get hold of many of the real land­marks in gam­ing; but what … Continue read­ing →

This is where the UCHG takes on the heroic chal­lenge to play every title in the book ‘1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die’. — 1001 No.26: ‘Super Mario Kart’ (1992, SNES) In our first video of 2011, … Continue read­ing →

Here at the UCHG we don’t shy away from tough ques­tions and con­tro­versy. We pre­fer to tackle these kinds of things head on and do our best to avoid com­ing across as sex­ist, racist, homo­pho­bic and some­times even gin­gerist. This … Continue read­ing →

I should be able to pick up my game from where I left off, and indeed I can but it wasn’t always like this. There was once a time when the save point was unheard of and a Hard Drive was some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent … Continue read­ing →