This one is kind of obscure but was decidedly a favorite of mine back in the day. It wasn’t No Man’s Sky but it was fun and is still a decent game. In 1992 the Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Entertainment, Edmond Heinbockel, had had enough. I’m not sure what he had had enough of, but he had clearly had IT. He led a walk out of Sierra and with the aid of several former Sierra game devs, started a new company in 1992, Tsunami...
Good old Roger Wilco. A legendary hero from the days when there was a Babbage’s in every mall. The galaxy’s most intrepid janitor. An every-man whose ambitions were constantly thwarted. A blue-collar hero that saved the day every time and never got a thimble full of credit for it.The Space Quest series ran from 1986 – 1995 numbering six games in total. All of which were produced by that Eighties gaming powerhouse Sierra Online.Sierra games covered just about every genre from...
Back in June of this year, the unthinkable finally happened. World of Warcraft became the second most played MMO. If you strike at the king, you must rule or die and Square Enix now sits on the throne. And Blizzard was indeed the undoubted king of PC gaming for twenty years. Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, these weren’t mere franchises, these were legends. Nobody broke ground like Blizzard, nobody had the polish or the style. Blizzard didn’t have releases, they had seismic events. Present at E3? No thanks we...
