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The Chronicles of Nyanya cat RPG gets a gameplay trailer

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Feline getting your claws into a cat-based RPG? The Chronicles of Nyanya is a C-RPG which hearkens back to classic JRPG style gameplay with turn-based combat, think early Final Fantasy, and Pokémon style top-down maps. The kitten protagonist learns that life isn’t all about bun growing as she seeks a path of vengeance after her village, and […]

Have you got it in you to enter Ubisoft’s ‘I am the Fart’ competition for South Park: The Fractured But Whole?

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Ubisoft have announced a new (an completely unique) competition for South Park: The Fractured But Whole that will see the winner having their fart included in the game as one of the New Kid’s lethal and smelly fart weapons.  Meet the jury and get to know more about this bizarre competition in the trailers below… This […]

New behind-the-scenes video for action RPG Dolmen

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Indie developer Massive Work Studio have released a new behind the scenes video for their space horror action RPG, Dolmen.  Inspired by the horrors of Lovecraft and given a science fiction theme, Dolmen is a nightmarish horror set on an alien planet.  The first monstrous horror that will be encountered in the game is Queen […]

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 […]