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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, […]

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 […]

The Week in Star Wars – Tom Hardy in Episode VIII, Finn and Rey relationship, Battlefront 2 announced, Star Wars: Bloodline reviewed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, we’ve got more cameo rumours, news on Battlefront 2, a review of Star Wars: Bloodline and more… We’re kicking things off this week with some more rumours surrounding cameos for Star Wars: Episode VIII. A couple of weeks back we heard that Prince William and Prince […]

Smart Boy turns your Android phone into a Game Boy Color

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Coming soon to your Android device is the rather splendid looking piece of kit called a Smart Boy!  This great retro-inspired product made by Hyperkin – and sold by Funstock – fits over your Android smartphone turning it into a Game Boy Color, allowing you to playing both Game Boy Color cartridges and even original Game […]

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 […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #70 – G-Force

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We leave the Pleasuredome from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, setting our sights on Number #70 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 games and it’s rather a bizarre little number called G-Force; rather disappointingly it’s not the kids cartoon from the early 1980’s. G-Force arrived in 1983 from EMM Software, created by Boris Baginski (BB Design). […]

Video Game Review – Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum… In today’s Homebrew Reviews on the ZX Spectrum you become one of the most vile creatures on the planet – a summer destroying wasp – as you attempt to keep the garden in which you live clean of all things not you. Loading Invasive Species from Sludge and with the […]

Interview – Sam Dyer discusses the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium

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Villordsutch recently managed to speak with Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books, the man behind Sinclair ZX Spectrum: The Visual Compendium, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium and also Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium, the latest book that has just entered Kickstarter with a fairly massive bang is the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium… Villordsutch: Firstly congratulations […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #72– Hijack

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With the simple life of bringing love to your girl behind us with Popeye, our world has become somewhat more troublesome in Hijack, which lands at Number #72 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  A game in which the fate of hostages around the world arrive on your desk within the Pentagon. In our first game within […]