There is so much love going on for the Switch right now, but the one thing keeping my desire at bay has been my 3DS; I’m still deeply invested in my little pocket console, where pocket is the operative word in this case. I am increasingly disinterested in playing games on my phone, despite trying to enjoy them for a…
DL’s Double-Down Summer is almost over! My 3DS is working as hard as it can this weekend to get through Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D. I’ve managed to overcome The Pain and The Fear, but not before they told me I still have The Sorrow and The End, at least, then I guess I’ll have to fight/become The Boss?
Not only was Elite the first “open-world” videogame [cit.], and changed the way games could inspire stories, but it was also a hit - the game captured the imaginations of consumers and in it’s native United Kingdom it was a national sensation, with shows about it on Channel 4 [”Making of Elite” EDGE Online] of people…
Ian Bell and David Braben both had a vision when they met at Cambridge in 1982; they wanted to realize the vast worlds that the promise of computers could generate, but most computer and arcade games at the time were primitive in both activity and scope - they had a number of lives, a score, and a specific directive…
