Welcome to Podcast Day my friends! I’m excited about the podcast especially tonight because I really, really love the game we’ll be talking about. If you’ve not played Icarus Starship Command Simulator, you’re doing yourself a disservice. It’s basically a first person FTL-style game with an amazing sense of humor, something that’s quite rare in… Read More »
Smugglers V: Invasion is the latest in a long line of turn-based, open space games that allow the player to explore, trade and fight in a dynamic, changing galaxy. Invasion is an expandalone to the original Smugglers V, and adds a new alien race to play, new solar systems and revised combat. I take the… Read More »
Today Steam released a new batch of Greenlit games, and it’s got quite a few spacey games on it, with some surprises too. These include: Armada Online (I wasn’t sure this one was still in development, honestly, glad to see it is though!) Epic Space Game Paragon (Which I forgot was in Greenlight! Whoops!) Smugglers V… Read More »
A while back I did a preview of Smugglers 5, which was a fun turn-based open space combat and trading game that I had a great time with. I hadn’t heard much regarding the game since until today, when it appeared on GOG for $10. If you have an interest in open-world (universe?) combat and… Read More »
Helllooooooooo my good friends. How are y’all doin’? Sorry about missing posting the news yesterday, just been a bit crazy around here, but good! Spent time with both X3: Albion Prelude and Distant Worlds: Shadows, so expect stuff on that soon (once I have time to actually write it up), and recorded a podcast to… Read More »
There are few games in this or any genre of gaming which have had as wide-ranging and long-lasting an influence as Elite. Pioneering two genres at the same time — the first person perspective space sim and the space trading sim — Elite is a game that still influences the genre nearly thirty years later.… Read More »