Remastering the remaster
Remasters and remakes are absolutely everywhere. They provide us with a romantic whimsical feeling that can only be described as nostalgia, which a lot of games crave as they grow older. We saw 2017...
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BDTB: Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I took charge of a group rebels and fought back against two corrupt leaders. I don’t think I have played a Real-time Strategy game in an exceedingly...
SCM Music’s Album Picks: January to March – Veterans, Communions and Idiot Proverbs
NEW YEAR, same old posts. Hi, welcome to 2018, and a year already drowning in excellent music. Once again we’re back with our quarterly round-ups of the best music to come out every three...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PlayStation 3)
SPOILERS ahead. For better or worse, Final Fantasy XIII was a massive hit upon its worldwide release in March 2010. By the middle of that month, it had racked up a cumulative five million...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Dead Space
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I tactically dismembered hundreds of aliens with mining equipment and was scared to death. Dead Space is an interesting game to play. It was first released back in...
Film Torments: Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
THIS TIME on Torments, George takes a look at the death rattle of a series desperately struggling for relevance. Disclaimer: I know there are plenty of people who would consider any and perhaps every...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3)
SPOILERS ahead. When Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square-Enix in 2003, it left a gaping hole at the core of Final Fantasy. Not only was Sakaguchi the creator of the series, his indelible influence was felt...
Breaking Down the Backlog – Renegade Ops
I eased myself into 2018 by becoming a renegade and blowing up everything humanly possible. SOMETIMES you just want to shoot people and watch stuff explode. Renegade Ops does both those things with aplomb....
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XII (PlayStation 2)
A QUICK note: The images you’ll see are taken from both the original 2006 version and the 2017 Zodiac Age re-release. If you see any UI/HUD changes etc, that’ll be why. Also, as always:...
SCM Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
THERE is very little point in telling you just how tumultuous 2017 has been for the world. It’s been plastered all over the television, newspapers and Twitter. But as always, we have music to...
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