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Event Report – PLAY Expo Manchester, EventCity – October 2016

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Villordsutch reports from Play Expo Manchester… This year’s PLAY Expo celebrated its 5th Anniversary in Manchester.  This major North West event brings together gaming of all varieties.  Most gaming events like to hug and look towards the next amazing next-gen treat, but this weekend celebrates everything from board games to retro and next-gen games and even games […]

Interview – James Valls, Senior Producer on Battlezone from Rebellion

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Villordsutch talks with James Valls, Senior Producer of Rebellion’s Battlezone… On Saturday October 8th I attended PLAY Expo’s 5th Anniversary at EventCity, Manchester.  My first port of call was to the Battlezone stand which was also showing off the PSVR, both of which I’ve been watching for a while.  Mainly for two reasons – the first it is that […]

Book Review – The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games

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Villordsutch reviews The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games by Chris Wilkins… I’m a big fan of nearly everything to do with Sinclair Computers.  It’s something I’m fairly open with and if you wander into my dining room you’ll see safely secured to my wall – in a nice little corner – a timeline of Sir […]

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s five best movie roles to date

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Central Intelligence, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, is a hilarious, action packed comedy that proves that heroes come in all shapes and sizes and it’s due to land on both Blu-ray and DVD come the 31st October 2016.  To celebrate this upcoming release we’ve listed five of the Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s best movie […]

Comic Book Review – Mega-City Undercover Vol. 03

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Villordsutch reviews Mega-City Undercover Vol. 03… Mega-City Undercover Vol. 03 follows the lives of those that dwell within the not so black and white world of the Justice Department – the undercover enforcers, those that are called the Wally Squad.  Each member is unique in their skill set,  able to pass as one of the citizens or Perps […]

Event Report – 2000 AD Prog 2000 signing at the Travelling Man, Manchester

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Last Wednesday – 28th September – marked a rather momentous day in British Comic Industry as 2000 AD celebrated a mammoth landmark with Prog 2000 – that’s correct 2000 issues of Earth’s mightiest comic! Not only was there a rather excellent celebratory comic released for this day [read Mark Allen’s review here], which saw the excellent […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 3 Review – ‘Give and Take’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf XI Episode 3 – Give and Take… After the brilliant ‘Samsara‘ hopes are high that the rest of the Red Dwarf XI, including next week’s episode ‘Give and Take’, will follow suit.  Red Dwarf has already returned to form and it was truly brilliant last night as it sang back to classic Dwarf fantastically well, […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Waypoint #1

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Waypoint #1… To celebrate 50 years of STAR TREK, IDW Publishing, under license by CBS Consumer Products, will boldly launch a new series in September which honors the legacy of the various Starfleet crews which have inhabited the Star Trek universe over the past five decades. With Star Trek ongoing now […]

Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy

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Villordsutch reviews Retroid for the Game Boy… The Nintendo Game Boy arrived on the gaming scene back in 1989 and it truly took the world by storm, combined with the Game Boy Color, Light and “Play it Loud” releases the Game Boy to date has sold 118.69 Million Units.  What’s more scary if you multiply […]