In December 1993, just before Christmas, we arrived in Las Vegas after a flight from Heathrow with a connection in Seattle. Taking time off from my job at Electronic Arts UK, Elsbeth and I were visiting my former business partner from Eldritch The Cat Ltd, Mark McCubbin. Mark had moved to Las Vegas earlier that year to work at Westwood Studios on games like Hand of Fate and Lands of Lore. He would kindly host us in his apartment for the duration of our visit. While the main purpose of our tri...| Steve Wetherill
Frank Klepacki’s soundtrack for the RTS classic Dune 2000, developed by Westwood Studios and released on PC in 1998, is nothing short of epic. Dune II was one of my favourite games on the Ami…| caffeinated pixels
In my sporadic “Do you remember…” series, I whack on some rose-tinted specs and wax lyrical about specific aspects of the classic and not-so-classic games of yesteryear. Today, it’s the intro…| caffeinated pixels