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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #78 – Flying Shark

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With Ultimate’s Atic Atac, which was the last game looked at in the chart, our fortunes are continuing to run high as swooping in from Firebird at Number #78 is Flying Shark, the Taito coin-op classic from 1987. This is our second game in the countdown from Firebird so far – the first being Gyron – […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4… The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the STAR TREK franchise continues in this special event mini-series! The fate of two civilizations comes down to the ultimate face-off between Captain Kirk and the Klingons! As the bulkhead door closes on Star Trek: Manifest Destiny, the comic to celebrate the 50th […]

Video Game Review – LEGO Worlds

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Emma Withington reviews LEGO Worlds… A meteorite plummets into the LEGO earth, sending studs scattering into temporary chaos. As the debris settles, a perfectly formed crater remains. The lost spaceman – let’s call him Nondescript Norman – finds his first tool, cooling off in the centre: The Discovery Tool. A whole new world of possibilities […]

Rumour: Sony developing PlayStation 4.5

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During the week, Sony announced details of its PlayStation VR, which is set to launch in October, and now comes a rumour that development is also underway on a mid-generation ‘PlayStation 4.5’ hardware update. According to Kotaku, Sony is working on a new version of the PS4 console, which will feature an upgraded GPU to […]

Video Game Review – Disc Jam

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Shaun Munro reviews Disc Jam… Released for “free” as part of PlayStation Plus’ Instant Game Collection, High Horse Entertainment’s Disc Jam has already been widely touted as “the new Rocket League“, a half-apt, half-reductive comparison that may both help and hinder the sci-fi sports title in the long run. For what it’s worth, Disc Jam is almost as […]

Video Game Review – A Pixel Story

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Calum Petrie reviews A Pixel Story… A Pixel Story is a bold and bouncy adventure filled with cute characters, bouncing puzzles and nostalgia filled levels. Developed by Lamplight Studios and published by Rising Star Games, this game was originally released on Steam and is now making its way to consoles. The BAFTA nominated indie title […]

Video Game Review – Typoman Revised

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Typoman Revised… Isn’t it so annoying when you are trying to watch an episode of Countdown whilst simultaneously playing a dark and moody platform game?  Well, thanks to the folk over at Brainseed Factory you can now do both!  Welcome to Typoman. Originally released for the Wii-U in 2015, Typoman at its core […]

LEGO Worlds Hands-On Preview

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Emma Withington reports from the LEGO Worlds preview… In a universe full of explorable LEGO chunks, dive – crash land – into a world made entirely out of LEGO, where dinosaurs, astronauts, dragons, and Peter Serafinowicz can coexist. Explore. Discover. Create. Together. After two years in Early Access on STEAM, LEGO Worlds is now on the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #85 – Guardian 2

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After the grounding role of a refuse collector in Trashman from yesterday’s Your Sinclair Top 100, we’re back into the murky depths of outer space in this Defender-like game, as  No.#85 on the list is Guardian 2. Published by Hi Tec Software in 1990, I recently discovered – thanks to a programmer from the past named Rich Stevenson – […]