“BAFTA believes games aren’t just one thing…” The BAFTA Games Awards are the United Kingdom’s highest profile games awards programme. They’ve been run by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (a film industry charity) since around the turn of the century. There are other prestigious UK games awards (handed out by trade bodies, […]

Previously: 2018 – 2019 – 2020 2021 was not exactly a vintage year for games. It felt like the big publishers were playing ‘wait and see’, and the none of the handful of tentpole releases that did make it out this year really piqued my interest. As with last year, I’ve mainly been playing established […]

Minotaur Rescue (a.k.a. “Solar Minotaur Rescue Frenzy”) is Llamasoft‘s (i.e. Jeff Minter’s) first game for iOS. It’s available as a universal app which natively supports iPhone and iPad device configurations. The game is part of the “Minotaur Project“, a series of games modelled after the design sensibilities of different eras of computer hardware, but unbounded […]