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Gamescom 2023 Interview – Billy Goat Entertainment on Parcel Corps

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Harrison Abbott chats with Billy Goat Entertainment about Parcel Corps, satirizing the gig economy and hearkening back to Crazy Taxi… A bicycle-courier sim might not sound like the most electrifying pitch for a video game, yet there’s more to Parcel Corps than just ferrying Amazon consignments around and loitering at fast food joints while they […]

Gamescom 2023 Interview – Sumo Leamington on Stampede: Racing Royale, Standing Out in a Crowded Genre and Balancing 60-Player Races

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Harrison Abbott chats with Sumo Leamington about Stampede: Racing Royale, standing out in a crowded genre, and balancing 60-player races… It can’t be easy trying to make a dent in the Kart Racer market when there is one (blatantly dominant) titan that has such a firm stranglehold over it. Indeed, Nintendo’s definitive take on this […]

Video Game Review – Disney Illusion Island

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Harrison Abbott reviews Disney Illusion Island… As much as certain gatekeepers would like you to believe that they’re born with an innate knowledge of their favourite cultural artefacts and/or fandoms, the truth is that everyone has to be introduced to an idea somewhere. You don’t exit the womb fully-versed in Tolkienian lore, it’s unlikely that […]

Eight Franchises We’d Like To See Added to Disney Speedstorm

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Harrison Abbott with eight franchises we’d like to see added to Disney Speedstorm… Although it’s only a couple of weeks old, Disney Speedstorm has plenty for gamers to be working their way through. There’s a single-player campaign that acquaints you with all of the basic mechanics, ranked online matches, a season tour mode, countless modifiers, […]

Epcot mascot Figment joins Disney Speedstorm roster

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A Floridian theme park mascot has been announced as one of the playable characters that will be coming to Disney Speedstorm at launch. If you’re not familiar with the upcoming title, it’s essentially an arcade racer in the vein of Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing, with the unique selling point being that it swaps […]

Simon Pegg to play Sirius Black’s Great-Great-Grandfather in Hogwarts Legacy

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Simon Pegg — star of the venerated Cornetto trilogy, the Kelvin timeline Star Trek movies, as well as every Mission: Impossible outing since 2006 — will soon be adding The Wizarding World franchise to his résumé of nerdy dream gigs. Today, it has been announced that the English actor, who is a known Potterhead, will […]

Video Game Review – The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me

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Harrison Abbott reviews The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me… Annualization can be a double-edged sword when it comes to video games. On the one hand, churning out a new title every single 12 months like clockwork can entrench an IP in the public consciousnesses, as it has done for Call of Duty, Assassin’s […]

Exclusive Interview – Director Tom Heaton on The Devil in Me, working with Jessie Buckley and The Dark Pictures Anthology

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Stunt casting famous actors used to be a proven strategy for any game publisher that wanted to get more eyes on their respective titles. It was all the rage in the noughties, with star-studded blockbusters like The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Fallout 3, True Crime: Streets of LA, Fable II, Brutal Legend […]

Video Game Review – Resident Evil Village: The Winters’ Expansion

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Harrison Abbott reviews Resident Evil Village: The Winters’ Expansion… Resident Evil Village tied up most of its loose ends, with an explosive climax that seemed to definitively put the “Winters Family Saga” to bed. Father, mother and child were all reunited in the third act, we at long last discovered how Ethan managed to survive […]