Latest articles by Richard Cobbett
The best Lord of the Rings games
Talking Tolkien The best Lord of the Rings games and other Tolkien adaptations.
The final crapshoot: Over 200 rolls later, it's time to put away the dice
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Meet the unluckiest videogame protagonist in history as we look back at Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
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There really is a game called Toilet Tycoon, and we played it
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Why the first South Park videogame got a review score of 8%
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Fountain of Dreams, the Wasteland sequel that time forgot
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Future Wars, the time-travel adventure about a questionably heroic window washer
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Big Rigs, Limbo of the Lost, and more of the worst games ever get their punishment
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Afterlife, the 'Sim Hell' game by LucasArts, was a sadly wasted opportunity
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
FMV fighting game Supreme Warrior was worse than a slap in the face
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
In 1997, horror game Haunted Casino tried to scare us chipless
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Prepare for the strangest ride of your life in 1993's Hell Cab
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Gold Rush! was one of Sierra's odder adventures, but what made it so strange?
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Before Doom, before Wolfenstein 3D, why does nobody remember one of the first first-person shooters?
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Before Unreal or Gears of War, a young Cliff Bleszinski made a shareware game called The Palace of Deceit
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
An Englishman plays American Revolution sim Liberty or Death
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Taking on 'a master race from outer space' in 1988's Rocket Ranger
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
It's hard not to feel sorry for the overshadowed 1992 Dune game
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Go back to a time when a 56k modem made you a god among geeks with Neuromancer
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
In the 1990s Carmen Sandiego had her own game show as well as cartoon
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
What happens when you repurpose H. R. Giger art to make a game? You get Dark Seed
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
Choose An Enemy was a first-person puncher with some pretty weaksauce nemeses
Crapshoot We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad.
