To main content To menu

One topic, all years Everything filed under Nerdom & Games

157 posts filed here so far.
A hooded figure crouches in the shadow of a half-open wooden door in a stone manor corridor, while torchlight spills from a hall where an armored guard stands and a stained-glass window casts teal and rose light on the wall

Twenty-Eight Years in the Dark Garrett finally casts a shadow

NewDark 1.29 brings hardware lighting, dynamic shadows and guards who spot your silhouette to Thief 1 and 2 - ahead of Nightdive's official remaster.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A small boy in striped pajamas sits with his back to the viewer at a desk in a dark room at night, lit only by a bulky beige CRT monitor showing a colorful isometric pixel city with a river and a red bridge

Reticulating Splines Again SimCity 2000: Airports were my biggest fear

SimCity 2000 in 2K on Linux, thanks to the human-made sc2kfix mod - plus secret DOS nights and the runway chain reactions that crashed them.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A lone figure with a rucksack and coiled rope stands on a stone ledge looking across a wide valley holding three landscapes at once: fog-covered slate rooftops and a clock tower on the left, a forest basin with one enormous ancient tree in the center, and a sun-bleached desert plateau with a half-buried stepped pyramid on the right

Doomed Backlog Season Garrett, Link and Lara are all coming back at once

Thief, Ocarina of Time and Tomb Raider are all being rebuilt - dates, engines, what is actually new, and one very inconvenient release calendar.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
Hume on the rooftops of The City, year 833 - one bump away from being noticed

Back In The City Hume, not Garrett: The Black Parade is the Thief game Looking Glass never made

Thief: The Black Parade review - the free 10-mission fan campaign for Thief Gold that plays like the Thief game Looking Glass never made.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
Low-poly illustration of impossible glowing green rock shards floating in a black void, with an ochre island carrying a red pagoda temple, a stone lantern and a blossom tree, and a small figure with a braid leaping between them under a pale moon

Thirteen Years Later The better tomb, and the man who wouldn’t build it

Tomb Raider 2 is the better, rounder Tomb Raider - and the game its own creator refused to make. On levels, gunplay and the Lara hype machine.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
Ligne-claire illustration of a bearded island hermit in a rainbow robe with a red headband, standing on a grassy headland above a turquoise lagoon among tall seven-leafed plants, a wrecked rowboat on the beach behind him

Twenty-Five Megabytes Of Island Stranded 2 still eats weekends

Stranded 2 runs on Linux in 2026 - a 2007 freeware survival island, a lost weekend, and one German guy still building the sequel.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A teenage bedroom at night, a beige tower PC with its CD tray open holding a blank disc, a spindle of blank discs and a marker pen on the desk, a figure seen from behind lit by the glow of a CRT monitor

Notes From The Burner Tray The disc was the network

Game piracy in early-2000s Germany ran on borrowed CDs, blood patches and a school IT room - a look back at a world that dissolved around 2010.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A Sable-style illustration of a besieged fortress at dusk, mixing a Tolkienesque stone keep with a Crusader desert castle, a tiny granary and wheat field at the wall's foot, a huge simplified army with siege engines approaching, and a lone defender watching from the near tower.

You're Under Attack, Sire Helm’s Deep with Stronghold sound effects

Helm's Deep re-dubbed with Stronghold sound effects - the most cursed, most perfect gaming-nerd crossover since Troy met Age of Empires.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A rendering of Lara Croft running away from a T-Rex toward the camera, pistols in hand.

Thirty Years Late I finally raided the first tomb – and I did it ugly on purpose

Tomb Raider 1 turns 30 - a personal review of finally finishing the original in its rough classic mode, where mechanics and atmosphere beat graphics.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
Tomb Raider: Side-Scroller Edition

Internet Find of the Week Tomb Raider: Side-Scroller Edition

Deep in a TR1-3 remastered playthrough and I stumbled into the best Netzfundstück of the year - Lara Croft, remade as a cinematic platformer.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games