Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…
CIPC #202: The manhole
2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…
CIPC #182: Broken sword: The shadow of the Templars
One upon a time, there were point-and-click adventure games. Sure, the genre still exists, but in the late eighties and the early nineties, when home…
CIPC #112: Civilization IV
Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…
CIPC #35: Age of Empires II
Age of Empires II was in its heydays the most popular real-time strategy game in the world and this popularity has lasted. The original game…
CIPC #3: Port mortem
“Post mortem” is the slightly macabre but very apt term chess players use for the after-game analysis with one’s opponent, where one looks at the…