“None could stand before the horde but the Doom Slayer.” Three years on from the release of id Software’s sequel-cum-soft-reboot we ask just how DOOM is DOOM (2016)? Leon, Jacob, Jon and Karl kite and […]
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Interview extra: David L. Craddock
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to the gaming historian David L. Craddock (@davidlcraddock), author of the popular online book Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters. About David L. […]
Sound of play: 100 – The videogame music podcast
Welcome to the 100th edition of our podcast dedicated to video game music – Sound of Play What we aim to bring you with Sound of Play is a diverse sample of some of our […]
Spencer’s games of 2016
It’s Cane and Rinse contributor Spencer Saunders’ turn to look back at the videogames of 2016 upon which he wishes to bestow awards We’ve reached that wonderful time of the year where the lists and […]
Sound of Play: 74 – The videogame music podcast
Welcome to our weekly podcast dedicated to videogame music – Sound of Play What we aim to bring you for this end of year special Sound of Play is a diverse sample of some of […]
*Right Stick* to interact
Control schemes are crafted across different games, across multiple generations to form part of the lexicon of gaming. First person shooter? It’ll play like Call of Duty, or maybe Halo. Third person shooter? Gears of […]
Sound of Play: 59 – The videogame music podcast
Welcome to our weekly podcast dedicated to videogame music – Sound of Play What we aim to bring you with Sound of Play is a diverse sample of our favourite pieces from the many air-punching, […]
Sound of Play: 47 – The videogame music podcast
Welcome to our weekly podcast dedicated to videogame music – Sound of Play What we aim to bring you with Sound of Play is a diverse weekly sample of some of our favourite pieces from […]
DOOM 3 – Cane and Rinse No.215
“Your mission has always been to die, soldier!” In the second of our current run of three id Software podcasts, Leon, Darren and Jon Salmon focus their ineffective flashlights on 2004’s much-hyped DOOM 3. How […]
DOOM and DOOM II – Cane and Rinse No.211
“ONCE YOU BEAT THE BIG BADASSES AND CLEAN OUT THE MOON BASE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO WIN, AREN’T YOU?” The landscape of the videogame industry changed forever with the release of id Software‘s epochal corridor shooter, […]
Wolfenstein: The New Order
MachineGames has turned the prototypical first-person shooter into a stealth-action-adventure game – with surprising results. I would have loved to have been in the room when MachineGames, the developer of Wolfenstein: The New Order, pitched […]
Doom 3: Say HELLo to Darren Gargette on his latest trip to the underworld
Darren Gargette revisits ‘vanilla’ Doom 3 before his look at the BFG Edition, coming very soon. PC version shown.