Alan Wake special edition on PC on
http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/ for £20.10 with the code
HALFT-ERMHO-RRORS

Steam key.

I disliked Downpour with such intensity that I wanted to do a Chalkie.

As much as we gamers moan about the increasing homogenisation of mainstream games, we never acknowledge that the problem is utterly exacerbated on consoles. We ignore the fact that the development freedom that we say we want is happening every day on the PC. We rightly champion the odd console release like Braid or Limbo as a mighty strike for creativity, but there's a raft of stuff in that vein happening all over the PC every day, along with more new IP than you can keep up with. We complain, but we rarely make the leap away from the systems and structures that cause the problems we lambast.

On a console. a unique narrative experience like Dear Esther would be lauded as a once-in-a-generation avant garde masterpiece. On the PC, it's a PC game...

So what would I really be buying a new set of consoles for? Better-looking Halo and Fable? Better-looking Uncharted? Another couple of big new first-party franchises on top of better-looking versions of all the others? A whole raft of family games from Microsoft?

Meanwhile, a PC will give me the best versions of the third-party blockbusters, and all of the medium-size and small-scale creativity I want. Games that will never hit the console market. Games that will never have to. Games that would be hampered if they tried. To rob myself of that would be like limiting my film-viewing to whatever the big multiplexes give me every month. And I’m certainly not going to do that.

Then again, I'll probably change my mind about all of this as soon as I see an HD Mario game running. We shall see, friends, we shall see.

Just tried to play Commandos 2. I've no idea how I ever managed to play, let alone finish it, when I was a little kid. It just throws you right in without even a tutorial. The "tutorial" levels are useless and don't really teach you anything. Maybe if I can be bothered I'll learn and play it properly. Otherwise I might just play the 3rd game, I seem to remember that one having a decent tutorial.

Just tried to play Commandos 2. I've no idea how I ever managed to play, let alone finish it, when I was a little kid.