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Video Game Review – Top Top

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CPCRetroDev 2015 introduced a plethora of brand new Amstrad games into its public domain libraries and its Gold and Silver finalists, Space Moves and Frogalot, have been highly praised. Dave Edwards turns his monocle towards Top Top, which took the Bronze… Amstrad owners/fans are probably as well catered for these days as Spectrum ones but, […]

Video Game Review – Klaus

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 Tom Powter reviews Klaus… Introspection is a rare thing to find in 2D side-scrolling platformers, a genre often characterised by the silent protagonist. Yet, Klaus, from indie developer LaCosa Entertainment, thrives on introspection, as its plot is fuelled by the often inquisitive thoughts of its playable character, who has just awoken in a mysterious, dingy […]

Book Review – Push Start: The Art Of Video Games

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Villordsutch reviews Push Start: The Art Of Video Games… As a fan of all things gaming since, well, since as far back as my aging mind will allow me to remember, the visual appearance of Push Start has already has caught my interest.  With one of Tomohiro Nishikado’s Space Invaders staring at me from the […]

Video Game Review – The Escapists: The Walking Dead

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Andy Naylor reviews The Escapists: The Walking Dead… By now everyone knows what The Escapists is about, (in case you don’t know) it’s a cutesy retro puzzle game with an addiction level that borders on worrying. The latest incarnation of it has team-ed (sorry) the game with the mammoth The Walking Dead TV franchise, so […]

Video Game Review – Wondershot

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Scott Watson reviews Wondershot… Wondershot takes me back.  It takes me back to Friday nights with my mates, a PlayStation, a multi-tap, some beers and a ton of fun.  The fact that it draws to mind these nights of local co-op fun brings a smile to my face.  It plays on my nostalgia.  It reminds […]

Mark Hamill, Alan Tudyk, Michael Dorn and Robert Englund headline voice cast for Master of Orion reboot

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Wargaming has announced a rather impressive voice cast for its upcoming Master of Orion reboot, featuring an ensemble of big names from the world of sci-fi, horror and video games. Headlining the cast is Mark Hamill (Star Wars) in addition to Alan Tudyk (Firefly), Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Kat Cressida (Haunted Mansion), […]

Video Game Preview – Sheltered

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Martin Carr previews Sheltered… Consider Sheltered a constantly evolving organic entity. Fancy words I know. But ultimately the most accurate when it comes to describing what we have. You see what Team 17 have done is started with a basic concept. A sort of low-fi Fallout 4. Minus the graphical enhancements, combat nuances or inherent […]

Video Game Review – Firewatch

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Villordsutch reviews Firewatch… Firewatch was voted Number.4 in Flickering Myth’s most anticipated video games of 2016 back in January. I myself have been watching Campo Santo’s latest release with bated breath since the kindling was first laid out in-front of us and now finally it appears on our machines and I’m so hoping this blazes […]

Watch footage from The Dark Knight cancelled video game

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In 2005, Electronic Arts published a video game version of Christopher Nolan’s epic superhero reboot Batman Begins. It got mixed reviews, however due to Batman’s evident popularity and the hype surrounding the release of Nolan’s sequel The Dark Knight, another video game tie-in was warranted and EA and Pandemic Studios began working hard to get […]