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10-The Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Ring This game has been on my collection for a long time, and I finally found the time to get around to play. The game follows the first book of The Lord of the Rings closely(Tom Bombadil makes an appearance) with some additional enemies that serve the…

Along with films, I watched a fair bit of television shows, and these were the highlights of the year for me, in no particular order.. Ken Burn’s The Civil War Thanks to Mark for recommending Ken Burn’s documentaries, because even though they are long, they are so detailed and provide so many fascinating personal stories.…

Last year I managed to watch a fair number of films that were new to me. In fact I probably watched more films and TV than playing games-but I suppose that’s the nature of a Lapsdgamer with two kids. Anyway, here’s the list in no particular order. Not all came from last year. JoJo Rabbit…

2020 was a horrible year, just the absolute worst. A global pandemic, months of lockdown, financial instability, Andrew Cuomo’s nipples, it was an all-time stinker. But despite all the turmoil and horror I managed to play some damn good games while confined to my house, here are my top 10 of the year.

10 – The Dark Pictures Anthology-Man of Medan This was a game that always intrigued me, however once I played it, despite enjoying it, I thought it could have been better. You control a bunch of people who are after some treasure. Throw in some pirates and an abandoned ship, and you have all the…

Summer rolls on, and so do the new releases.

Mark’s roller-coaster relationship with Bungie’s looter shooter continues. Having declared Destiny was dying last year, has he changed his mind?

April, the time when the lambs should be leaping and the piglets suckling, flowers start blooming and a freshness comes into everybody’s steps as the sun makes an appearance. So as Spring is the sign of new beginnings LGR have decided to do a new feature and select some games that we are looking forward…

Adam “Duck & Cover” Ducker runs us through the top 10 games he played in 2018

A long time ago (just over 5 yrs in fact) and what seems now, in a galaxy far, far away, EA announced the exclusive rights to publish Star Wars games, developed by DICE, Visceral and Bioware. There was hope for many that we would get great games, while others felt fear; that the corporate machinations…

This is an interview with Super Smashing Great Games and a review of their first game Foreveracers How did the name Super Smashing Great Games come about? There’s a mix of influences. Initially, it was a bit of false bravado, and a play on the old school game name conventions like ‘super mega ultra. It…

Justin Kauer is an indie developer from America, working on his first full game, Warriors of Ari. Tell us a bit more about yourself Justin Well, I’m from a small town in Blackfoot, Idaho. I’ve always liked the basic platformer games like Mario and all that stuff so that kinda, I always wanted to be…

The first full episode of LGR:Play is here, in which Mark and Adam discuss the intriguing text adventure Subsurface Circular, from acclaimed indie developer Mike Bithell. If you’d like to appear on an episode of LGR:Play then tweet us or shoot an email over to lapsedgamerradio@gmail.com

One year ago today, Nintendo gave unto us a glorious thing. They released a new console which is pretty good… but they also gave us what is quite possibly (in my humble opinion) one of, if not THE greatest video game ever made – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. A bold claim,…

Dragon Age Inquisition Game Of The Year Edition (PS4) After enjoying the first two games, it was a given that I was going to play this, and play this game I did. In fact I put in 136 hrs into this game and all its DLC, making it my most played PlayStation game (beating Call…

Zero Fun (Developed by Deadjam. Available on iOS) Zero Fun reminds me of a game I reviewed last year called Defuser. It was a game based on the idea of stopping bomb counters reaching zero and exploding the bomb. Zero Fun is a little similar in concept. On each level in Zero Fun you have…

We all know that 2017 has been a phenomenal year of game releases, but in true Lapsed fashion we like to include anything that we played for the first time this year no matter when it was released. In saying that I surprised myself this year by having 6 games in my top ten that…

With everybody doing their 2017 GOTY lists I thought I’d take the opportunity to highlight some games from my Monthly Mobile Review Roundup articles that I think are still worth your time and money. Tubocity (Developed by Whitepot Studios. Available on Android & iOS) Endless runners are hard to write about. They nearly always involve…

The Nintendo Switch has been out for about 7 months now and I thought I would write up about my first 7 months with this console. For me personally this has been a very fun journey, not to spoil the coming content, but because this is the first Nintendo console I have owned since the…

Linelight (Developed by My Dog Zorro. Available on Android & iOS) I’m just going to say up front that Linelight is my sort of game. I don’t know if that is a recommendation or not, but there we go. Linelight is a really well thought out puzzle adventure game that uses the simple premise of “What if…

Monday October 23rd 2017 saw a fairly inauspicious tweet from the official @LegoDimensions account that finally put all the rumours to rest and announced the premature end of their grand three year plan a year early. Of course, this led to a lot of people being understandably upset as it has been one hell of…

This is a quick interview that we were able to do at EGX with Jack Bennett (@jack_bennett) from Oddbug Studio (@oddbugstudio). Stuart: We’re here at Oddbug Studio’s stand at EGX and talking to Jack about their new game, the PSVR title The Lost Bear. Jack, can you tell us a little bit about the game?…

Well EGX 2017 has been and gone, and during the 2 days I was there I managed to see and play some games, meet some people, see the sights, and even went to the Friday night after party! I really enjoyed EGX this year, and overall I would say it was better than last year.…

“Well some of the crowd are on on the pitch. They think it’s all over! Well it is now!” Retro Soccer (Developed by EightPixelsSquare. Available on Android & iOS) Retro Soccer immediately played on my nostalgia emotions by having a loading screen border like Spectrum 48k games when it is starting up and in game it…