Author: Graeme Virtue
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Fallout review – a wild Wasteland safari where naive optimism meets gory mayhem
The creators of Westworld tackle one of gaming’s foremost franchises in the new Prime Video streaming series. Boom time: whether by accident or design, the Fallout TV show – announced in 2020 and arriving in a binge-ready eight-episode payload this week – is launching at an auspicious moment. After the mushrooming success of HBO’s The…
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Remembering Iain Banks: a prolific, terrific talent
There is a well-worn story about the late Iain Banks and his relationship to video games. In the 1990s, the puckish, prolific Scottish author – who cheerfully hopscotched between publishing mainstream literary best-sellers as Iain Banks and science fiction novels as Iain M Banks – became so addicted to Sid Meier’s Civilization that it threatened…
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Top flight: what’s the best video game jetpack?
[ad_1] Life can be a lot less bother when you hover. Think of Exile, the 1988 marvel that cleverly crams an entire alien world and its belligerent fauna into the scrawny 32k memory of a BBC Micro. Chief among the game’s chaotic pleasures is its nifty jetpack, empowering your stranded space captain to explore the…