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System Shock 2 is back

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For those not in the know, the 1999 hit System Shock 2 is one of the granddaddys of gaming – one of the best (and scariest) games ever made and the inspiration for many that followed – ever wondered where BioShock came from? But for years, rights and trademark issues have made getting a working… Read More »

Minutes to Midnight

I come to this magnificent website today, because my conscience leaves me no other choice. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the old design and style of post: This way of playing old games and ranting about them is still fun! This business of deleting our content without warning, removing our history… Read More »

[1001] Califor-nya-nya…Games

Many peo­ple might well have been excited by the Olympics this year. But there is another com­pe­ti­tion that grips us all at the UCHG much more than London 2012 — and that is: 1001 No.64: ‘California Games’ (Sega Master System, 1987) California may well be super cool to the home­less, but it also has many var­ied, and… Read More »

[1001] Ratchet & Clank

The Ratchet & Clank series is now pretty well known, and has spawned a hell of a lot of games — cur­rently stand­ing at around 12 in all, with re-releases and ‘HD remakes’ still turn­ing up for the cur­rent gen­er­a­tion of con­soles. It’s a pop­u­lar series — and of course there’s good rea­son for that. Let’s look at 2 of the… Read More »