FO3's storyline is pretty dull (find your dad) and too easily broken (go to the wrong vault at the start of the game and it cancels out about 50% of the main storyline). There's very little choice in it and, before Broken Steel fixed it, ended in the stupidest manner possible. Aside from one slight difference in the…

It is a substantially better game, surprisingly so since it uses the same engine. It's bigger to start with, with more missions and quests and almost all of them better-written than anything in Fallout 3. The faction system is great, with the game adapting to any combination of missions you might want to try to…

I had the great pleasure to meet Robert Holdstock, who wrote THE DARK WHEEL, on several occasions (also check out his MYTHAGO WOOD novels, which are excellent). He talked about getting to play ELITE before anyone else in the world bar only Braben, Bell and a couple of people at Acornsoft, which must have been awesome.…

FREESPACE is superb. It also sold a lot less than either WING COMMANDER or X-WING (hence why only 2 games compared to five for the former and four for the latter), and isn't quite as universally well-known.

As someone mentioned, SAN ANDREAS was released very close to the end of the PS2's lifespan and was a massive sales success. Aiming for the end of a cycle with proven hardware is smarter than aiming for the start of a cycle with unproven hardware. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see an enhanced version of GTA5…

Most SFF worlds aren't designed to actually work as globes, only on flat bits of paper. Putting them onto globes does weird things to the shapes of the landforms or the sizes of the oceans. There are a few exceptions though, such as Brian Aldiss's Helliconia which was actually designed to work as a sphere and in fact…

Looking at the Steam stats (as they have a much larger sample base than anyone else), about 74% of PC gamers use Windows 7 (with another 8% for Vista), compared to 12% for Windows XP. So Windows 7 is very much the defacto OS of the masses now.

Publishers don't just take what they're given by the developers and say, "Whatevs," and put it out with no further thought or comment. They give the developers the money and keep an eye on the game at all stages of development to see how it's going. This includes having the power to transform the game ("Your bold and…

"Blaming rough edges and bugs on Bethesda published titles seems like a cop out, really. "

You can fix it right now. In the autoexe.cfg file (open with Notepad) in the Black Mesa files simply change the following two lines:

Reminiscent of the Cyberdog Gun from Fallout: New Vegas (the Old World Blues DLC). It's a gun with the brain of a dog attached, so the gun's targetting sights perk up like a dog's, the gun 'barks' when it makes a successful kill, growls when enemies are near and whines plaintively when you put it away.

Yup, QA is the responsibility of the publisher, not the development studio. So you can thank LucasArts for suddenly cutting the development time of KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC 2 in half at short notice, Sega for simply not putting ALPHA PROTOCOL through any kind of QA at all and Bethesda for not doing rigorous QA on…

No, they're not selling it. I'm actually surprised that Valve themselves haven't adopted it as a proper project for them, considering the amount of work that's been put into it.

In Fallout the bombs fell in 2077, but in an alternate timeline where the aesthetics of 1950s sci-fi movies were kept intact.

One of the most interesting things about FORGE OF DARKNESS is that Erikson seems to have realised - ten books and 3 million words too late perhaps - that 'gods' wasn't the best word to use. There are beings with different abilities and who inhabit different realms, and some who are super-powerful in their own realm…

Thirded. Vance's vocabulary is a joy to read. Harrison's vocabulary is impressive, though I prefer Gene Wolfe's ability to use his vocabulary in service of the characters and ideas. With Harrison (at least in his VIRICONIUM works, which are all I've read of his) it feels that there is a bit of a disconnect between the…