Blast From The Past

Blast From The Past: Halo: Combat Ev...

You might wonder why we’re doing a Blast From The Past on what could arguably be a game of this generation thanks to Microsoft and 343 Industries Halo:...

Blast From The Past: Super Monkey Ba...

PETA may have gotten all het up about the launch of Super Mario 3D Land... and the revival of the Tanooki Suit that they went to the effort of making a macabre game

Blast From The Past: R4: Ridge Racer...

Ridge Racer... has been a stalwart series for Namco. Having started out in arcades and then moving onto the Playstation and home consoles across the ages,

Blast From The Past: The Sims

For Blast from the Past this week, we’re going back to the turn of the millennium, and the release of The Sims. The Sims... was a game designed and created by

Blast From The Past: UFO: Enemy Unkn...

The 90’s was a time of PC gaming legends, and few are as fondly remembered or as critically acclaimed as UFO: Enemy Unknown. Later renamed X-COM: UFO Defence...

Blast From The Past: Prince of Persi...

Prince of Persia... has been around for over twenty years now, having started out back in 1989 on an Apple II computer – and playing out as a two-dimensional

Blast From The Past: Star Wars: Batt...

After last weeks Blast From The Past, you may have thought that we’ve been caught in a Star Wars shaped hole and aren’t going to be leaving any...

Blast From The Past: Star Wars Rouge...

When the Nintendo Gamecube arrived on our doorsteps nearly ten years ago in May 2002, a certain game came along with it that – whilst not totally changing...

Blast From The Past: Final Fantasy C...

When the name Final Fantasy is mentioned, many hark back to their memories of the Playstation series of games. Memories of Cloud, Squall and Zidane come flying...

Blast From The Past: Half-Life 2

What with the rumours of a Half-Life 3... floating around the place, and Gabe’s little knife photo, it seems only fitting to look at the game that redefined

Blast from the Past: DragonBall Z: B...

DragonBall Z: Buu’s Fury... was the third and final game in the fantastic Gameboy Advance series. After defeating the genocidal alien, Frieza, and stopping

Blast from the Past: Max Payne

Back in the day, the release of Remedy Entertaiment’s neo-noir cop story, Max Payne,... was one of the huge events of PC gaming. It was another limit breaker

Blast From The Past: Grim Fandango

If someone came to you and told you that one of the greatest games you’ll ever play started out in the office of a travel agent selling deluxe package...

Blast From The Past: Croc: Legend of...

It’s all too often that a rather polished game franchise falls off the face of the earth never to be heard from again, at least this used to be the case,...

Blast From The Past: Metroid Prime

Dealing with any franchise is going to be a tough thing for any developer to take on, you have to adhere to expectations from long running fans, you have to make...

Blast From The Past: Ninja Gaiden

With the announcement of Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus coming to Playstation Vita on launch, and with Ninja Gaiden 3... releasing soon on PS3 and Xbox 360, now

Blast from the Past: Digimon World

During the wake of Nintendo’s Pokémon franchise, Digimon reared its head as what many saw as a shameless rip off. While it didn’t necessarily slam Nintendo...

Blast From The Past: Crash Bandicoot

Sony launched their big grey slab back in 1995, it launched with brilliant games but it was lacking in something, it didn’t have a recognisable figure...

Blast From The Past: Jak & Daxt...

Created by the minds at Naughty Dog, Jak & Daxter series consisted of four main Playstation 2 titles; Jak and Daxter: the Precursor Legacy, Jak 2: Renegade,...

Blast from the Past: Resident Evil

Resident Evil... is helmed as a true survival horror game, whose later releases would go on to scare people in exactly the same way. Sadly the series has recently

Blast From The Past: Rayman

Lately it seems that many games are getting themselves a revival, remake or having some homage paid to them by other developers. The last few months have seen...