I recently finished Freespace 2 with all the bells and whistles from the tremendous community courtesy of their Knossos launcher. It was probably the best space combat game I've ever played, and I include TIE Fighter in that list. It's like trying to choose between children or something, the …

To further add to what Garrett was saying, with Mint you can use Steam's Proton with Jedi Knight, which adds a compatibility layer that works pretty well last time I tried it. If you do make the jump to a more advanced copy of Windows there's the recently collated Jedi Knight Remastered mod, which …

Earlier in the week I tackled a game called Hacx from 1997, one of the last commercial games to be built using the Doom engine. It was unpolished and played nowhere near as well as its progenitor, so I shrugged my shoulders and moved on. Until today, when I discovered that a 1.2 standalone version …

Is 8 really as bad as people say? 8 does away with the party dynamics that made the previous games so memorable. The engine is the same as 6 and 7 but you only create one hero, the designated champion. Everyone else is a pre-made hireling that you have to recruit for some reason. It's a playable …

M&M2 is actually my favourite of the old school M&M games. I know people love Xeen but there's a charm to the interface and CGA graphics that just does something for me. It took a lot of what the first game did right and then expanded upon it. Also check out the various ports of the first two games, …

I've been slowly but steadily working my way through Enslaved's back catalogue. It's fun watching them slowly transform from Viking/Black Metal into an increasingly more progressive act.

I just spent a few minutes wrestling with Attack on Altair, a side-scrolling ASCII shooter from 1983. Little did I realise that the fire button was F1, as a result most of my time was spent thinking it was some sort of bullet hell dodging game. Until I saw the demo of the AI playing it that was...

Dominos pizza and Glen's vodka - breakfast of champions and preferred food of UK health nuts everywhere. 9/10 doctors agree.

I'd recommend Tiefighter for exclusive play... but thats just me. :happy: I can't wait to get that one working properly! I must've played it 3 times in a row, even with that crappy sound card that would "hang notes". If LucasArts (now Disney) kept having to pump out Star Wars games, why not a TF2 …

I've been using an Audient ID4, initially bought for recording but now the main device for sound output. Sure it's no Audigy 2 but turns out it's really good at playing audio as well as recording it! The only issue is that it automatically mutes itself every time power is lost, meaning that if you …

The original Dune from Cryo for me. There's just something about the atmosphere of Arrakis that has never been captured better by any other title. The beautiful music, the glorious sunsets, the ability to switch seamlessly between first person narrative adventure and overworld RTS. It doesn't need …