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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 […]

SNES Classic Mini rumoured to be in the works at Nintendo

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Following last year’s NES Classic Mini, it seems that Nintendo are gearing up for a 16-bit version, with rumours suggesting that a SNES Classic Mini is slated for release later this year. According to Eurogamer, the SNES Classic Mini is the reason that Nintendo has decided to discontinue the NES Edition despite its popularity, and […]

EA reveals brand new Star Wars Battlefront 2 Starfighter Assault gameplay video

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We’re slowly edging closer to the November 2017 launch date of EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2. As we do so, EA has treated us to more and more tidbits as to the improvements they have made upon their 2015 endeavour. EA previously teased us with this trailer showcasing some of the intergalactic space battles that fans have […]

BAFTA announces winners of the 2017 British Academy Games Awards

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The 2017 British Academy Games Awards took place in London this evening as BAFTA celebrated the very best in gaming over the past twelve months. Taking home the top honour, Best Game, was Naughty Dog Studios’ Uncharted 4, while INSIDE won four awards (Artistic Achievement, Game Design, Narrative and Original Property and there were also […]