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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #46 – Bobby Bearing

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If you’ve enjoyed your life as a common garden bumble bee in Antics (or not) it is now time to move on, or in this case roll on, as trundling into the No.#46 slot of the Your Sinclair Top 100 is Bobby Bearing from software publishing house The Edge. Bobby Bearing was released back in […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #45 – International Match Day

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We leave one world of spheres with Bobby Bearing and enter another – however as regular readers of the Your Sinclair Top 100 know, the following genre really isn’t my favourite.  You could actually say that I personally despise what’s hiding behind No.#45, which is International Match Day from Ocean Software. International Match Day was […]

Darth Vader headlining new Star Wars VR experience from Lucasfilm and David S. Goyer

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During yesterday’s MEET ILMxLAB: The Future of Immersive Entertainment panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe, Lucasfilm announced that it is developing a new VR story/experience centred on the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader, which is being scripted by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel). What character is so iconic that we […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #32 – Jet Set Willy

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Still riding high from Knight Lore from the day before we turn to today’s Your Sinclair Top 100 and cross our fingers hoping that we’re given something just as wonderful.  Pulling our hand from the bag of ZX Spectrum gaming delights, it’s revealed that No.#32 hasn’t let us down as it’s the true classic Jet […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #29 – Think!

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With the graphical wizardry of Nebulus from Hewson served to us in our last instalment, you’d now expect our bar to be set pretty high in the Your Sinclair Top 100, so when what looks like a square version of Connect 4 strolls up at No.#29 – calling itself Think! – we’re instantly sneering at it […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #28 – Deactivators

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Forcing the old grey matter to actually do some work seems to be on the cards again, as we wave goodbye to Think! and greet our next title in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Deactivators which sits at No. #28 however this isn’t a flat 2D board game – here we’re in the pseudo-3D realm of bomb […]

Exclusive: Bringing ABZÛ to life with composer Austin Wintory

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Take a behind the scenes look at Grammy nominated composer Austin Wintory creating the much anticipated ABZÛ score ahead of the game’s release tomorrow on PlayStation 4 and PC in this exclusive video… ABZÛ is an epic descent into the depths of the sea, where players will explore beautifully rendered ocean environments with fluid swimming […]