Rock Paper Shotgun writes: "LLamasoft's last - Space Giraffe - was a gloriously misunderstood classic. Llamasoft's next move is to return to the scene of a previous triumph. Despite being a Pocket-PC-Port, Gridrunner++ was one of my favourite shooters of this decade. For one of the greatest all-time arcades creators to want to expand upon it is the sort of thing which makes me order in a new set of adrenaline glands from my developing-world meat-banks. I suspect I'm going need them. We talk to ungulate-in-chief Jeff Minter about it, and its PC-first release in April…"
Ken McKown writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our first series will focus on Sony’s first entry into the console business, the PlayStation.
Let’s continue with the letter “G”.
Ah Gran Torismo! I remember playing the demo for it a ton as a kid. My father, who isn't even a gamer would even play it. He was into how "realistic" it as and how fun it was at the time. Good times!
But yeah, another great list of great games.
Hardcore Gamer: As of today the PC version is 100% free. Gridrunner++ plays just as well now as it did in 2002, and its pixel-shatter stylings make it look right at home with today's indie-retro gaming. Gridrunner++ is 4MB of pure reflex-based gaming perfection, and still holds up as the greatest arcade shooter ever made.
20 Games In 40 Minutes from veteran games journos Jon Denton and Chet Roivas. This week: Why Trials Evolution is the best XBLA game ever, why Fez is unravelling our brains, and why getting pissed in The Witcher 2 is amazing. Also: Killer Shigsy.
Therefore, I buy.