Posts Tagged ‘Driver’

[E3] Driver: San Francisco

June 16th, 2010

First things first, no, I am not reporting live from E3. Which is a shame, because that would be pretty awesome. But I thought that as this is predominantly a gaming site, and we haven’t had too many updates recently, I’d do a news piece and share a few of my thoughts.

As I was looking through stuff from E3 for Valve’s latest trailer, I found a link to ‘Driver: San Francisco’. Immediately Portal 2, which I already know isn’t coming out until next year, was forgotten. I have long been a fan of Driver, and I’d heard rumours that a new one was in the works, but I’d not come across any definite news.

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[Retrocity] Driver

March 21st, 2010

Right, time to stop being lazy. Retrocity has returned!

Today I’m looking at a relatively modern game, released in 1999 for the Playstation, and then ported to Windows and Mac a year later. This game gives me a chance to reminisce a bit. As you may know, I’ve never owned any gaming machines other than a PC and a GameBoy Color which is lying around in a cupboard somewhere. But I first came across Driver on the Playstation. Back in those days, I would go round to a friend’s house. A friend who was obsessed with gaming. You might know him; his name was Tom. When the Megadrive was turned off, it was Driver that kept us entertained. We’d take it in turns to lead police cars on a chase up and down multi-storey car parks, or shunt cars onto the tracks and watch them get demolished when the tram came along. » Read more: [Retrocity] Driver