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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #36 – Cybernoid

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We are currently on a roll in the Your Sinclair Top 100 with Gauntlet then Lode Runner and now we have something truly fantastic.  At No.#36 is Cybernoid from one of the most respected publishing houses out there, Hewson Consultants Ltd. Cybernoid arrived on the ZX Spectrum in 1988, created by Raffaele Cecco, Nick Jones, John M. Phillips, […]

Music That Takes Us Beyond: A Guide to the Star Trek Movie Soundtracks

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To mark composer Michael Giacchino’s triumphant return with Star Trek Beyond, Sean Wilson explores the extraordinarily rich legacy of music from the Star Trek movies… From being initially written off on the basis of the underwhelming trailers to its emergence as a funny, fast-paced and fan-pleasing summer blockbuster, Star Trek Beyond has according to most […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #37 – Lode Runner

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From one classic to another today in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  We lay down our chosen weapon and drag ourselves out from the dungeons of Gauntlet to climb the many ladders littered within No.#37 as we are hunted within bricked realm of Lode Runner, from Software Projects Ltd. Lode Runner was originally conceived way back on the […]

Exclusive: Composer Bill Brown discusses working on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six along with revealing two never released tracks

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With the recent release of Tom Clancy’s The Division by Ubisoft and the news that Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and star in a movie based on the game we decided to speak with a person whom is very familiar with Tom Clancy’s work, composer Bill Brown. Brown began his career scoring Clancy’s Rainbow Six in […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #38 – Gauntlet

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If the life of a cut-throat Mercenary isn’t for you then it’s time to leave the wire-frame world behind and pick up either a bow, staff, sword or axe as No.#38 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 is the rather excellent Gauntlet from U.S. Gold. Gauntlet began life as a four-player Atari arcade game back […]

The Pre-SDCC Week in Spandex – New Suicide Squad footage, Batman v Superman Blu-ray review, Spider-Man concept art, Taika Waititi on Thor: Ragnarok, Batman rumoured for the Arrowverse, Constantine to return and more

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In this special pre-SDCC edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman, Supergirl, Constantine, Gotham, Powerless, The LEGO Batman Movie, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain America: Civil War, Luke Cage and more…  With the San Diego Comic-Con International kicking off across the Pond today, we’re expecting the […]

8 killer cues from Cliff Martinez’s The Neon Demon soundtrack

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Sean Wilson takes a closer look at the latest captivating collaboration between director Nicolas Winding Refn and composer Cliff Martinez… Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t court controversy and outrage so much as revel in it, and his latest hallucinatory nightmare The Neon Demon is no exception. A surrealistic and increasingly shocking tale of the fashion […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #39 – Mercenary

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Cruising highways are gone and now forgotten as we wave goodbye to Highway Encounter; with our next entry in the Your Sinclair Top 100 our world has become somewhat hollow, somewhat wireframe, and now we sell our cut throat services for cash.  At No.#39 is the 3D game of technical wizardry – it’s time to […]