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Video Game Review – Metro Redux on Nintendo Switch

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Calum Petrie reviews Metro Redux on Nintendo Switch… Many big games have been receiving ports to the Nintendo Switch; games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Alien Isolation and DOOM (2016) have all been received well. The issues when porting have usually been sacrifices to performance and visuals to compress the current gen huge […]

Video Game Review – Journey to the Savage Planet

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Calum Petrie reviews Journey to the Savage Planet… Typhoon Studios’ Journey to the Savage Planet is a charming exploration/adventure game where our character is sent by an Earth based interstellar travel company to explore possible habitable planets for humanity to relocate to. Players have to survey creatures and fauna, harvest resources and build upgrades to […]

Video Game Review – The Outer Worlds

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Calum Petrie reviews The Outer Worlds… The Outer Worlds is the latest adventure from Obsidian Entertainment, who will be fondly remembered for their work on Fallout: New Vegas. This latest adventure from the studio is straight out of the Fallout playbook with an RPG Adventure that takes players on a journey across space, strange worlds […]

Comic Book Review – The Illuminati Ball

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Calum Petrie reviews The Illuminati Ball… The Illuminati Ball is an ambitious story about the human condition, greed and tampering with things beyond our understanding. A modest graphic novel by Cynthia Von Buhler and based on the theatrical experience, the story has somewhat of a pedigree. The narrative takes a few turns throughout the book’s […]

Video Game Review – Felix the Reaper

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Calum Petrie reviews Felix the Reaper… Felix the Reaper is a tile-based puzzle game in which the titular character creates death through interesting puzzles. Created by Kong Orange and published by Daedalic Entertainment, this puzzle game puts you in the leading role as a newly trained Reaper; your mission, death…. while dancing. Felix the Reaper […]

Comic Book Review – Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1… A terrible time in human history has been re-imagined, retold and revisited in this strange yet refreshing tale from Boom! Studios. The story of Herring, an operative working in East Berlin, Strange Skies Over East Berlin explores the human misery and oppression of the living situation […]

Video Game Review – The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame

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Calum Petrie reviews The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame… The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame is loosely based upon the new film by Mike Mitchell and the follow-up to the massively successful The LEGO Movie. The game lets you back into the shoes of Emmett and Lucy as they are tasked with events that are nothing like […]

Comic Book Review – Life Is Strange #3

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Calum Petrie reviews Life Is Strange #3… Last issue we left the pair gathering their thoughts after Chloe finally got to experience what Max has to live with. The strange abilities that allowed Max to bend time have now started acting independently of her control and are forcing her to see visions of the alternate […]