Recent content by McDanny

It's not my absolute favourite (that would be Civ 4) but no-one's brought it up yet and it deserves a mention, so... Advance Wars. The whole series was excellent, until they ditched the camp, cheery, colourful, intentionally silly Advance Wars for the dark, dull, gritty, po-facedly silly Advance...

Godalming in Surrey, England - the first town in the world to be lit by electric lighting. For some reason.

Why is it that every game that gets turned into a film invariably ends up awful? I mean, even when we discount the 90% or so which are made by Uwe Boll, who frankly can go grate his own face. Doom, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider... they're all pretty bad. But they shouldn't be, as games generally...

Absolutely not. Fallout 3 is essentially one huge murder engine for me. I actually started that game trying to be good, until my childhood bully said, 'Thanks for saving me! Now let me give you my armour while I pointedly turn away so your gun is prodding into the back of my soft, squishy...