God Games, the megalomania simulator where your every whim is enacted by the most loyal virtual simulations, it is easy to see why they are popular, However, the most prolific games usually get you to recreate a previous successful civilisation’s exploits, but what if you … Continue reading Empire Earth III (2007)
Crowdsourcing can make dreams a reality… whether they have any right to exist or not. In 2014 a crowdsourcing campaign attempted to bring back a game franchise into the 21st century, in doing so took that game in a new direction, a game that inspired … Continue reading Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn (2018)
As seen in some of the other products I’ve mentioned, a sense of ego can be detrimental as well as essential when it comes to broadening your career and branching out into new horizons, but when you’re proposing to attempt something so utterly novel, Ego … Continue reading Shaq Fu (1994)
Destiny, the pre-designated path we all venture forth, but through greatness, we can live up, or exceed these limitations. In 1997 a prolific video game designer, who lived extravagantly to the excess had unlimited control and time to turn his vision to a reality, and … Continue reading Daikatana (2000)
The Xmas season is big bucks in the video game world and pre-1983, this was doubly so. When veteran video game designer Howard Scott Warshaw, gets handed a blockbuster movie franchise, it’s a match made in heaven. But when the deadline is six weeks away … Continue reading E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Tie-in games have had something of a bad rap. Often seen as a cheap, hastily produced time wasters that attempt to do nothing more but to literally tie into the film’s success, hence their names. It makes the rare cases, where tie-in product actually bucks … Continue reading R.I.P.D. The Game (2013)
As the band Tears for Fears famously sang “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”. We all sit in our armchairs, tutting at the news, writing articles upon articles about how we would have done things differently. For the betterment of humanity, or your own personal … Continue reading Superpower 2 (2004)
