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Comic Book Review – Star Trek New Visions: Swarm

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek New Visions: Swarm… In our latest offering from the comic book master that is John Byrne, we find the Enterprise and her crew on the trail of drones that travel the cosmos, vibrating stars to death and feeding on their remains.  Though you may snort at this glib opener, Swarm is one of […]

Technical specifications released for the ZX Spectrum Next

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After the release of the ZX Spectrum Vega+ technical specs just the other day, it would seem us retrogamers of the world are being spoilt, as arriving late yesterday evening on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook page was the final technical specifications for the rather splendid looking machine that is the ZX Spectrum Next.  Not […]

Star Trek: Discovery launch date revealed

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Over at StarTrek.com the expected release date for Bryan Fuller’s upcoming new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery has been announced. This new show is expected to arrive in May 2017, when we’ll see the first Star Trek series in ten years warp onto our screens. Star Trek: Discovery to premiere on the paid service CBS All […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 1 Review – ‘Twentica’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf  XI Episode 1 – “Twentica”… Rimmer – “We’re picking up a ship heading straight for us in an unmapped region of deep space.” Lister – “Where?” Rimmer – “Nearing region: Uncharted, Sector: No Name, Quadrant: Nameless.” The boys from the JMC are back! Along with the Cat and the Mechanoid… they’re […]

Dan Dare coming to Big Finish in December

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Big Finish has announced today that we will be seeing Dan Dare arrive as a brand new audio production from B7 Media which will star Ed Stoppard as the titular hero alongside Geoff McGivern as Digby, Heida Reed as Professor Peabody and Raad Rawi as the villainous Mekon. Created by Frank Hampson, Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare […]

Book Review – Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson

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Villordsutch reviews Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson… For anybody who lived through the home computing boom of the 1980’s if you glimpsed Hewson Consultants on the front of one of your games it meant two things: 1) Here was a fantastic, well made game which was going to keep you engaged […]

Tom Hanks – A Retrospective

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A Hologram For The King, directed by Tom Tykwer, is due for release on both Blu-ray and DVD come the 19th September 2016 from Icon Film Distribution.  Based on the novel by Dave Eggers, Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, a man who has lost everything now finding himself desperate and directionless within a strange and foreign land, searching for […]

Ten great ZX81 games you really need to play!

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Villordsutch with ten great ZX81 games you really need to play… Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 celebrated its 35th Anniversary in March 2016.  This small unassuming machine to most people today, with a mere 1K of RAM, is quite possibly laughable 0 but this sleek flat-keyboarded machine began a revolution that is still rolling today. When […]

Video Game Review – RunGunJumpGun

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Villordsutch reviews RunGunJumpGun on the PC… It’s been a long time since I’ve truthfully swore at a computer game, and I’m talking really cursed the pixelated screen to damnation swearing here.  Yes, I perhaps let slip the occasional rude word here and there at other games but I don’t think a game like RunGunJumpGun has […]