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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk coming to Flight Sim World

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At this years Frontier 2017 event Dovetail Games and BlueSky Flight Simulations revealed the first military aircraft coming to their flight simulator, Flight Sim World.  Budding pilots can soon take to the skies in the American Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.  BlueSky FS have released plenty of videos covering development of this plane and test flights and […]

Video Game Review – Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls on the ZX Spectrum… Monty Mole from Gremlin Graphics was huge star on the 1980’s gaming scene.  Wanted: Monty Mole rocked the 8-bit gaming world as a wee stubby mole, designed by Peter Harrop, wandering through the British Coal Mines (set during the 1980’s Miners Strike) snaffling coal […]

Behind the Music of Halo Wars 2: An Interview with composers Brian Lee White, Brian Trifon and Gordy Haab

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We chat with Brian Lee White, Brian Trifon and Gordy Haab about their work on Halo Wars 2… One of the most buzzed about video games of 2017 has been Halo Wars 2 with The Guardian calling it an “Exciting revival of the real-time strategy game” and PC Advisor going on to say “It does […]

6 Franchises Telltale Games Should Adapt

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Thomas Roach with six franchises Telltale should adapt… Telltale Games has created some of my favourite experiences in gaming over the last few years. After playing The Walking Dead a few years ago, I was blown away by how good it was. Telltale doesn’t really deliver traditional gameplay but rather focuses more on storytelling. With […]

Video Game Review – Statik

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Shaun Munro reviews Statik… If you enjoy crisply immersive VR graphics, bone-dry humour and feeling like an absolute idiot, Tarsier Studios’ Statik just might be the game for you. Providing yet more evidence that non-roomscale VR is simply better-suited to seated, static (or rather, statik) experiences, this unassuming yet devilishly tricky puzzler represents some of the […]

Video Game Review – What Remains of Edith Finch

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Shaun Munro reviews What Remains of Edith Finch… Offering up a welcome reprieve from the seemingly endless deluge of blockbuster titles released so far this year, Giant Sparrow follows their acclaimed 2012 adventure title The Unfinished Swan with a “walking simulator” that spreads plenty of goodwill for the oft-maligned genre. The sepulchral What Remains of Edith Finch is a […]

Video Game Review – Outlast 2

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Dean Abdou reviews Outlast 2… Outlast 2 is the sequel to Outlast which was released in 2013. The story features a journalist named Blake Langermann, along with his wife Lynn, roaming the Arizona desert to explore the murder of a pregnant woman, Jane Doe. Unfortunately, Blake and Lynn get separated in a helicopter crash, and […]

Interview – Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm

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Villordsutch chats with Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm… The Sinclair ZX81 was (and still is) a plucky little machine.  RAM packed with 1K of memory this machine came into its element when you crammed a hefty additional 16K onto the back of it, however at the time gaming on the […]

Love and Mass Effect

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Pete Donaldson on love and Mass Effect… So Mass Effect: Andromeda hit shelves last month with varying degrees of acoustic clunkery, depending on how many different versions of the thing EA have seen fit to release this time round (I haven’t bothered checking). Maybe you went for the Steelbook edition with limited edition poster? Or […]