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The Galactic Video Review Adventure Magazine

RobF — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:52:47 -0400

You can thank me later.

How videogames fund arms manufacturers.

RobF — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:10:46 -0500

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-01-shooters-how-video-games-fund-arms-manufacturers

Fucking Parkin again. Amazing piece and well worth mulling over.

New Server - Site Migration stuff...

RobF — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:43:59 -0500

...right, I'll be finishing off the last of the site migrations later and then I'll be ready to fire out user/pass stuff on Monday as we're finally up and stable as far as I can tell so we won't have to reimport anything after tomorrow. There's no point pestering me before Monday because if something goes wonky, I might need to reimport the accounts and that might mean setting up new user/passes. Unless I've explicitly already told you the site is OK and we won't ever ever ever have to do anything to it again, obviously.

A few things if you find your way here:

I don't have contact details for everyone. If you can't access your site and you've not been around/spoken to me in a while then you'll need to get in touch with me for a new user/pass and you'll be good.

If your domain isn't resolving to the new site, I can't do anything about that myself. It means that your URL is pointing towards the old server and you'll need to point at the new one. If you drop me a line, I'll give you the new IP address, go to your registrar and find where to amend the DNS and throw it in there.

Any redirects, you'll need to set up again.

Any mails forwarders, you'll need to set up again.

We've done our level best to bring everything back as close to as was as possible. We've gone through loads of sites and amended stuff by hand until it works. We've been at this all over Xmas and New Year and been doing stuff up until today. At this point, if there's anything not done it means it's something -we- can't do. Drop into IRC and speak to STomps or myself (if it's a technical query, you're *really* best off asking STomps) if you need a guiding hand or what have you but please appreciate that right now, I'd like to go and do some things that aren't server related. Like pretending I didn't miss most of Xmas and New Year. Or sleeping. Or something, anything that isn't doing server stuff all the time.

Cheers and thanks for bearing with us whilst we got back up on our feet.

-Rob

Mrs Mopp, Lords Of Midnight, Deus Ex Machina 2 Soundtrack, more...

RobF — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:24:24 -0500

http://www.retroremakes.com/

Get it. HAVE IT.

Red Rogue, Insane Joyriding In A Jet Powered Bathtub Through Hyperspace, Maximus Action Carnage...

RobF — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:59:17 -0500

...and more up on the front page today.

http://www.retroremakes.com/nostalgia

Ooki Bloks, Lords Of Midnight, Super Pipeline 2, Atic Atac, Lagertron

RobF — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:57:33 -0500

All on ze frontpage RIGHT NOW. Right harder. It's a good day to right.

http://retroremakes.com/nostalgia/

Chaos:Chaos Harder

RobF — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:25:35 -0400

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/02/x-com-co-creator-julian-gollop-making-chaos-sequel/#more-130473

Wot it sez on the tin.

Retro City Rampage

RobF — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:44:10 -0400

http://retroremakes.com/nostalgia/2012/10/10/retro-city-rampage/

Look, it's a GOTY candidate, I'm telling you. Go read that then buy it.

The Pac Man and Captain Foraxian

RobF — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:40:57 -0400

On the front page right now

The Pac Man looks nifty but not had a chance to look yet. Posted it anyway!

I didn't realise The Sims was quite so...

RobF — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:15:17 -0400

...I dunno, is there a word for this?

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Imaginary_Friend

If a Sim has children with the imaginary friend, there is a chance that the child will be partly imaginary friend as well

WOAH WOAH WOAH BACK UP RIGHT HERE BACK UP. What?

See also The Social Bunny and The Tragic Clown.

He usually wanders around the house, crying and coughing. Although Sims can interact with him, the only interaction that makes them happier is insulting him

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait a minute.

Target: Renegade, Black Widow, Insane Balancing On One Leg In Extremely High Places.

RobF — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:34:09 -0400

http://www.retroremakes.com/nostalgia

That's today's pile for your perusal.

PSN Store Rejig: October 17th

RobF — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:24:15 -0400

No more 5 random pressie boxes :(

http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/11/sony-unveils-redesigned-ps-store-live-from-october-17/

That's much sooner than I expected so huzzah!

To Hell With Johnny

RobF — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:25:50 -0400

To Hell With Johnny ($5, with a free demo) is a platformer without jumping, a game of tactical falling/keeping up with forced scrolling. Its random level generator manages to keep the game fair while spicing it up with moving, crumbling, sticky, slippery and trapped platforms, conveyors, trampolines and all kinds of enemies.

The soundtrack goes from organ music to drill'n'bass seamlessly and without looping, taking advantage of accelerating fixed-length stages.

Screenshot Sunday

RobF — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:17:07 -0400

...or any excuse to post some pretty pictures.

Hopefully, most Twitter users will already be aware of the phenomena ($150) of Screenshot Saturday. A day where developers post their screenshots, tag them up with #screenshotsaturday and they get magically rescued to a fairytale world known as screenshotsaturday.com. If you weren't aware of it prior, well, you are now, right?

Anyway, it's an absolutely great way to keep track of pretty pictures of games currently being made but being what it is, it does tend to get a little bit lost in a developer to developer echo chamber. So let's pull a couple of pretty pictures out from this weeks selections and hopefully, there'll be something someone can take a fancy to...

Fruitorious

We've mentioned Fruitorious before but I'm going to mention it again because this is what videogames look like in my head and this is what a real videogame actually looks like. Plasticine peeps in a classic arcadey world? OK. YES.

Bob The Tramp

I don't know why I'm curiously drawn to this one from a chap calling himself Overwound, I really don't...

We've all been there. I think?

Terra Incognita

Posted just because it's absolutely so pretty. One of those pictures where I'll worry about what the game is later...

Questlord

RobF — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:28:10 -0400

Here's a little something I've had sitting round for a few weeks and keep meaning to post but things keep getting inbetween me and posting here right now. So here it is! Posted.

QuestLord is a coming soon for iThings 16-bit style RPG. Not one of those icky Zelda-esque top down things, no, this is one of those Dungeon Master-y things which always seem to go down well in RR towers. No word on a release date BUT it's already looking very smart.

One to keep an eye out for, methinks... keep tabs on progress here. I went for the game but stayed for the pic of the snow owl.