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Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Features
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A round up of the video-game-related features I’ve written for magazines, books and websites this year.
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Conscript! Wax Heads! Turnip Mountain! The Deadly Path! Pieced Together! Here are some of my favourite games from the WASD show.
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This 1989 Atari ST shareware game is an obscure but brilliant platformer.
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I wrote an awful lot of things about video games in 2023, not least an entire book.
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At first, it’s not obvious. A Piranha Bites RPG ditty looks nothing like the brilliantly bleak Blasphemous. But look a bit harder, then go down to the library and borrow any random Tintin, Asterix and Obelix, or Diabolik comic, and you’ll see that it they all have a certain je ne ses quoia that makes…
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An obscure but brilliant 1994 game for the Atari ST.
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A few highlights from this year’s WASD, including Viewfinder, Have a Nice Death and A Highland Song.
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Remembering Jeff Minter’s ungulate shooter on the Atari ST.
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Memories of a tough but delightful game on the Atari ST.
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Atomic Heart! Zelda! Snufkin! Here are a few of the spangly new video games we’re looking forward to in the coming year.
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Citizen Sleeper! Silt! Rollerdrome! Join us as we look back at our favourite games of 2022.
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After two turbulent years, 2022 felt like a fresh start.
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I found out in a feature for Time Extension.
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A look at one of the biggest and most complex articles I’ve ever written.
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Featuring John Romero!
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Dome Keeper! Ninja or Die! Planet of Lana! More!
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As the venerable machine turns 50 this month.
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What a stunning bunch.
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Three issues in, this beautiful, high-quality gaming journal is getting better and better.
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A few highlights from the excellent crop of indie games at London’s newest game show.
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Treat yourself for World Book Day.
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Another turbulent year, but with some glittering highlights.
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The AMAP team chooses their favourite games of the year.
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I spoke to the man behind Lowtek Games.
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A month after the game hit shop shelves.
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Specter Knight, Plague Knight and King Knight join the amiibo shelf.
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Read my review of this fantastic game in issue 55 of Wireframe.
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A round up of the best games I saw at the 2021 comeback of EGX.
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With the help of the developers of Death’s Door.
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TOEM! Deathloop! Eastward! Sable! More! It’s hard to keep up.
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A tribute to the man who revolutionised British home computing.
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I interviewed the people behind it for The Guardian.
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