The previous generation of game consoles followed an interesting arc. Introduced as serious, realistic, and “gritty” action games were nearing the height of their popularity, it was a common observation and complaint that, for all […]
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Music Monday: Mr Driller
I’ve always found the juxtaposition between Mr Driller, an innocuously simple up, down, left, right, dig arcade action puzzle game and its grand, intricate soundtrack quite thrilling. All of the eclectic and complex music from […]
Music Monday: Strider
I’m rather enjoying the recent downloadable Strider title that’s been put together by Double Helix in association with Capcom. It’s a slick, briskly-paced dash’n’slash ‘metroidvania’ type game that’s closer to something like Bionic Commando Rearmed […]
WipEout 64 Quick Rinse
Our Darren Gargette floats gracefully on a cushion of air thanks mostly to his high-fibre diet. WipEout’s only N64 outing was ostensibly a cartridge-based port of PlayStation WipEout 2097 (aka WipEout XL) but also included some […]
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero Quick Rinse
“Who are you to judge?” Darren Gargette plays one of the most critically reviled games of all time: Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. Here Darren is playing the Nintendo 64 version of the game on PC […]
Parappa the Rapper Quick Rinse – Ribbet ribbet me can’t hold it
Darren Gargette lays down some rhymes with NanaOn-Sha’s 2D canine MC Parappa the Rapper. Originally released in Europe September 1997 on the original Sony PlayStation. If you like these Quick Rinse videos you can find […]
Die Hard Trilogy Quick Rinse – It’s like The Orange Box but not really
“Oh God, I hope that’s not a hostage!” Darren Gargette endures the aged graphics and dodgy voice samples to give us a Quick Rinse of Probe Entertainment’s Die Hard Trilogy. Originally released last century (1996) […]
My first death: a Dark Souls tale (Ages 16+)
I stand in front of the imposing edifice that houses Anor Londo’s equally daunting Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and I am lost in its beauty. It’s a curious facet of Lordran that the […]
CaR Conversational – The PlayStation 4
Here’s the first of our Cane and Rinse Conversationals, where members of the C&R community discuss their thoughts about the wonderful world of videogames, starting off with the newly announced PlayStation 4. As something of […]
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!!!
Finding an interesting game for the PlayStation Vita on launch day should have been easy. Unfortunately, the selection of re-hashed and re-packaged games just didn’t hold much of anything for me. Try though I might, […]
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