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The end is the beginning

RevStu — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:23:49 +0000

It's been a bit of a bumper month for WoSland, chums. Records have been tumbling left, right and centre – August saw the site break 100,000 page views (by some distance) in a single month for the first time, get over 50,000 unique visitors for the first time, and (not unrelatedly) have a single post [...]

Why I hate the iPhone being the new Amiga

RevStu — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:24:15 +0000

I haven't played Flashback in almost 20 years. The iOS port is burdened with a control system so faffy and unintuitive that I had to sit through the entire intro sequence three times in the first 15 minutes (including one full shutdown and reboot due to a particularly cretinous oversight on the developer's part*). Now [...]

Pilotwings Resort reviewed in a hurry

RevStu — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:01:12 +0000

I'm flying a rocket pack! (And a jet plane and a hang-glider.) Over a beautiful tropical island packed with features that are just begging to have stunts pulled in, through and around them! There's a volcano! And it's all in 3D! I shouldn't be this bored, should I?

Excellent game ported to unfashionable format

RevStu — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:57:19 +0000

Alert viewers won't (or possibly will) need reminding of Forget-Me-Not, a superb neo-retro iOS game we reported on way back in March that crosses Gauntlet with Pac-Man and Robotron and Crossroads. Well, now it's back with a whole bunch of new enhancements, but not on iOS. The game's author has ported it to the PC [...]

Public service announcement

RevStu — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:04:31 +0000

There are two groups of videogamers in the UK (and perhaps the world) whose Venn diagram has a surprisingly small intersection. In Group A we have "People who own a Nintendo DS", and in Group B there's "People interested in buying a Nintendo 3DS". In fairness, this may be because Group B is so small [...]

This frequency’s my universe

RevStu — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:47:31 +0000

We need a new word for videogames. The term was coined back in the 1970s to describe something that at the time was a completely new and revolutionary artform (it must be barely conceivable to today's gamers that there was a time in living memory when such things as games played on a TV screen [...]

3(DS) + 1 (week) + 1 (game) = 5(/10)

RevStu — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:01:47 +0000

Well, it's all been happening in the world of the 3DS since WoSland decreed it relevant by deciding to get one last week. Nintendo are talking about stick-on second analogue pads, brand-new models with the 3D effect toned down, and trailing mysterious big announcements for the Tokyo Game Show that sent the beleaguered company's stock [...]

Namco Week Update

RevStu — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:18:07 +0000

In keeping with their general levels of inept bumbling irritancy, Namco have ungraciously just rendered much of last Saturday's enthusiastic piece about Pac-Man S inaccurate and redundant, by wiping the leaderboards and releasing a new and substantially different version of the game. Luckily for them the new version is even better, and therefore few will [...]

25 minutes at the poker tables with Rev. Stu

RevStu — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:18:32 +0000

I've been running like this for a while now. Yesterday I finished reading the poker book I bought in Swindon last week (it tails off a little after the first few chapters, but it's still pretty good and well worth the quid it cost me), and it gave me the itch for a bit of [...]

What is this, Namco Week or something?

RevStu — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:20:21 +0000

I know. I don't even like Namco very much. But in the world of videogames, all too often if you want a job doing properly you have to do it yourself. I had to fork out eight quid to buy Galaga Legions DX and find out if it was any good or not, because not [...]