BDTB: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
In this week’s Breaking Down The Backlog, I finally bring my time with Nathan Drake to a close. And so concludes the Playstation 3 trilogy of Uncharted games. What a journey it has been!...
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Hidden Classics of the Talkie Era: The Old Dark House (1932)
IN THE FIRST of an ongoing retrospective examining the forgotten classics of the ‘talkie’ era, Mike looks at a ghoulish ground-breaker. “Laughter and sin! Laughter and sin!” An understated gem in the career of...
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...
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....
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