“That’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!” LucasArts (nee Lucasfilm Games) discovered buried treasure with their swashbuckling 1990 point-and-clicker, The Secret of Monkey Island. The Cane and Rinse […]
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
Brian Tarran loses himself in the latest entry in BioWare’s Dragon Age series. You know those games: the ones that are so brilliant that when you start playing them you […]
Dragon Age: Inquisition Quick Rinse
Or: “How Not To Do It”. Josh attempts to take down one of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s titular wyverns… it doesn’t go well. If you like these Quick Rinse videos you […]
Music Monday: Dragon Age: Origins
A blindingly obvious but frankly essential Music Monday this week. In the latest Cane and Rinse the podcast (issue 149) we review BioWare’s five-year-old (how?!) RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Returning […]
Music Monday: Burnout Paradise
Away from headliners Guns N’ Roses and Avril Lavigne (pronounced La-vig-knee as far as I’m concerned) the selection of ‘EA Trax’ that make up Burnout Paradise’s extensive playlist features a […]
Music Monday: The Secret of Monkey Island
Inspired just somewhat by BBC Radio 6 music I’ve decided to make this Bank Holiday (at the time and in the place of writing) a skank* holiday. Michael Z. Land’s […]
Mirror’s Edge
A second run through DICE’s first-person parkour game confirms its status as a last-gen gem. If you’ve played Mirror’s Edge, you’ll know what it’s all about. You run. That’s what […]
Quake III: Arena Quick Rinse – Server browser fear
In his latest id Software Quick Rinse, Darren Gargette bottles out of playing Quake III: Arena veterans online in favour of some low skill AI. PC version shown.
American McGee’s Alice
That this 11 year old game still manages to effectively disturb despite suffering from several key signs of ageing is a testament to the distorted and deranged vision of Wonderland […]