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Video Game Review – Layers of Fear

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  Tom Powter reviews Layers of Fear… Clichés are often seen as a hallmark of lazy writing, designed to be used for maximum effect, but can come across as a laughably familiar. However, if used effectively, clichés can work in the writer’s favour. Layers of Fear, developed by Bloober Team SA, is packed full of clichés […]

Video Game Review – Foul Play

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  Kris Wall reviews Foul Play… Foul Play casts you as renowned Victorian daemonlogist, Baron Dashforth as he recounts his greatest adventure live on stage,  FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! Aided by his loyal sidekick, Mr Scampwick, the duo must battle their way across 5 acts in a series of side scrolling brawls that harken back […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek #55

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #55… This all-new story set in the universe of the new STAR TREK films celebrates the life of the most iconic character of them all: Leonard Nimoy’s SPOCK. In Part 1 of this 4-part epic, the elder Spock joins the last survivors of Vulcan to search the galaxy for a new […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #2

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Villordsutch reviews  Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #2… A Spoon Too Short is Dirk Gently’s most baffling and incomprehensible case. Inspired by the tantalizing alternative title for the Dirk adventure Douglas Adams was working on prior to his death, A Spoon Too Short follows the continuing adventures of the world’s weirdest […]

Video Game Review – Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival

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Scott Watson reviews Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival… Nostalgia – a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. When Dino Dini’s Kick Off […]

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10 Review – The Winds of Winter

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The Winds of Winter Written by: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik In the extra-long finale we’ve witnessed the pieces be moved upon the board both rapidly and violently.  Here finally do we see Daenerys set sail towards the West, Cersei deliver vengeance upon all that have crossed her, Jon Snow become […]

Video Game Review – Deep Core Raider on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Deep Core Raider on the ZX Spectrum… One of my favourite all time computer games of old was Thrust created by the late Jeremy Smith. I spent many a wet break time at school on a massive BBC Micro battling both inertia and gravity to steal the orbs from numerous caves.  So when I caught […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek #56

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #56…  “Legacy of Spock” continues here, in this special story celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise! Spock Prime reflects on the alternate timeline he left behind… but he faces a new threat in the present, as the Romulan Empire threatens to end the Vulcans’ search for a new […]