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Brick-breaker Doughlings: Arcade comes to Steam this May

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Indie developer Hero Concept have announced that their latest game, Doughlings: Arcade, will be arriving on Steam in May for PC and Mac.  The game is also planned for release on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch at a later date.  Doughlings: Arcade is an arcade brick breaker that places a unique fun twist on the […]

Movie Review – Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict

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Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict Directed by Andy Remic. SYNOPSIS: A documentary feature film based on Andy Remic’s memoirs growing up with the ZX Spectrum; part cinema drama, part interviews, part nostalgic journey. The ZX Spectrum back in the 1980’s was one of the computers to have in your home. Forget your Nintendos and your […]

EGX Rezzed 2018 – Hands on with Hipster Café

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Emma Withington gets hands on with Hipster Café… Feel like the world is just too mainstream? Hipster Café is here to help – providing you with a hipster-haven, where you will always be ‘on trend’. You still have time to like it before it’s cool –  so let’s get stuck in! Happy Hipsters, Make Happy Baristas The […]

Video Game Review – Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

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Shaun Munro reviews Yakuza 6: The Song of Life… The Yakuza series won itself a whole new Western fanbase last year with the release of the meteorically successful Yakuza 0, and last summer’s remake of the original game, Yakuza Kiwami, cemented the franchise’s newfound popularity in a void still awaiting the next Shenmue game. While this latest instalment is as […]

Tech Review – Venom Power Pack and Stand for Nintendo Switch

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Calum Petrie reviews the Venom Power Pack and Stand for Nintendo Switch… So as a recent convert to the Nintendo Switch, I have found playing games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the other more graphically intensive games on this console are a bigger drain on battery than the more indie focuses […]

Atari Speakerhats, the latest in wearable gaming tech

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When you hear the word “Atari” you think, ‘Gaming!’.  You may even think, ‘The spark that ignited console gaming to what we see today’.   However, what you probably don’t think when you hear the word Atari is, ‘Speakerhats!’, but coming very soon to a head near you is just that.   Arriving in selected email […]

God of War soundtrack available to enjoy now

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There’s just a few more days to go until the release of Santa Monica Studio’s highly anticipated God of War which will see Kratos return to take on Northern Europe, however, if the wait is becoming unbearable then you can head on over to Spotify now to purchase the full soundtrack composed by Emmy award winning […]

Daughter score the original soundtrack to Life is Strange: Before the Storm

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To coincide with the release of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Daughter the award-winning, London-based trio have released Music from Before the Storm.  An original musical score for Square Enix’s latest game which our own Shaun Munro said of it – in his review – “a riveting, content-rich character study that ably stands on […]

Fe arriving early 2018 from EA Originals

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Ea Originals’ Fe will be channelling the Ori effect in early 2018. Developed by Zoink Games, Fe follows the story of the eponymous small cub in a wordless forest threatened by the Silent Ones (machine antagonists), in which you communicate and interact with nature through sound alone. Explore the natural surroundings of the forest, as […]