“The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can’t just read the guidebook, you’ve got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers- or is that just me?”
The Reticule’s podcast is back with another action-packed episode. This time around Jordan and James discuss the recent release of the Wii U in America, wonder whether Grand Theft Auto V will manage to keep in the spirit of the series and comment on the sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
As always James speaks about a classic game he’s been playing in the Retro Roundup, but unusually this week the lads have a polite disagreement over his verdict. All is settled by the time they get to Game of the Week though, where the two of them show off their best James Earl Jones impressions. So what are you waiting for? Hit the jump to listen and download episode 18 of The Reticule Presents Installing to Disk. …
Game fans are wonderfully creative people. As a community, we constantly see costumes and theatre, weapon replicas, game-inspired fashion, original and covered game songs, fan-art and fan-fiction. Every now and again a short film will come around with results varying from “Huh, kinda cool,” and “Holy cow, so… so beautiful *sniff*”. A director glorying in the name Wade K. Savage has built a team of experienced film-makers and is asking for $10,000 to make Legate: Lanius, a short telling the story of Fallout: NV’s masked Big Bad.
We live in a strange world where some of the premier minds behind a franchise have no say over its direction. When you can buy and sell the rights to a franchise, the name becomes worth more than the product itself. The right name can move far more units than any technical innovation, no matter who owns it.
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Welcome to ‘The Month Ahead’, a new feature where we take a brief look at some of the PC games coming in the month ahead and what we think of the games that you are dying to play, or dying to avoid. This month we have monster titles such as Medal of Honour and Fallout: New Vegas coming, the racy Official WRC Game, an…interesting sounding Garden Simulator and more readying for release.