Category Archives: PC Gaming

So, if Wikipedia is to be believed – and they more-or-less match my own recollection, so we’ll go with it – Quake was released on June 22, 1996. That’s a bit over 12 years ago. So finally getting around to … Continue reading →

I am told that there is an ancient enmity between people who consider themselves “jRPG fans” and people who consider themselves “cRPG fans”, which really only goes to show that people will bitch about anything. I’m not about to get … Continue reading →

I called the Xbox service line tonight and was rewarded by an automated message telling me that my Xbox 360 had been “fixed” (read: replaced with another, refurbed, console) and was on its way back to me. So that’s a … Continue reading →

I finished Doom – well, at least, I finished the original episodes – on Friday night.  I’m not sure if you’re supposed to beat it in the way I did, which was to navigate myself so there was a Hell … Continue reading →

Playing through Doom again has been a little odd. It’s been 13 years since I last played it, and that, particularly considering the new look made possible by source ports and fan-updated textures and models, SHOULD mean that I don’t … Continue reading →

Dungeon Siege was starting to frustrate me. Not for the normal reason that games frustrate me, which is that they’re hard and I’m a wimp. Honest! It was more interface issues than anything else, really. A couple of the frustrations … Continue reading →

I hopped on the Doom bandwagon a couple of years late. When Doom was originally released, I didn’t have a machine at home capable of running it – I had a pieced-together 80286 box that had about enough marbles to … Continue reading →

After I finished off the spider-infested temple, and incidentally I will be sending Chris Taylor a bill for the therapy I’m going to need, it was time to tackle the next fantasy standby: The dwarven mine overrun by nasties because … Continue reading →

OK, so I don’t really think there are any such things as “Necessary” spiders, at least as far as video game enemies go, but these are particularly bad, not least so because of unfortunate timing. I have been trying Dungeon … Continue reading →