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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 […]

Comic Book Review – IDW’s Greatest Hits: Star Trek #1

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  Villordsutch reviews IDW’s Greatest Hits: Star Trek #1… Introducing IDW’s Greatest Hits! One-dollar versions of key issues and launch-points from your favorite IDW books! This month, it’s Star Trek #1! Picking up where the 2009 film left off, this is the jumping-on point for everything that’s come after for the new cast! IDW has […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #4

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #4… The hit new series continues here as our all new cast of cadets sets off on their first mission in space and headlong into a century-old mystery that could change the Academy forever. Meanwhile, Uhura risks her career in Starfleet with her only chance at redemption coming from […]

Video Game Review – Tom Clancy’s The Division

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Villordsutch reviews Tom Clancy’s The Division… Now I’ve been playing RPGs for quite literally decades and you can add onto that MMORPGs for close to two decades as I arrived at EverQuest a year or so after it opened its doors.  In amongst the numerous other titles I’ve played Dark Age of Camelot, Warcraft, EverQuest 2, […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: New Visions – “Of Woman Born″

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: New Visions – “Of Woman Born″… It’s been a good few months since we’ve had a new John Byrne Star Trek: New Visions photomontage in our hands, and now that we do have one I’m having to recite over and over again in my aging, yellowing brain, ‘Do not judge a comic […]

Video Game Review – Coffin Dodgers

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Villordsutch reviews Coffin Dodgers… Let’s be honest, everybody wants Mario Kart on their machines.  If you’ve experienced Mario Kart at any point in your life and then you’ve left and strayed to another console, no matter how perfect the graphics are on your new shiny box you can’t help but want a some form of […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #3

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #3… The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Star Trek franchise continues in this special event mini-series! It’s Kirk and the crew vs. the Klingons in a battle unlike any you’ve seen before: aboard the Enterprise itself! Two weeks back we left the Enterprise in a dire state, boarded by a […]

Video Game Review – Double Bubble on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Double Bubble… In the latest Homebrew Review on the ZX Spectrum I look at a simple looking arcade puzzle game that involves you guiding two bubbles across a small obstacle course.  I say simply, Double Bubble is a game that will have you cursing your machine in a matter of minutes as the secondary bubble […]