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Gamescom trailer released for Yoku’s Island Express, watch it here

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At this year’s Gamescom event in Cologne veteran developers and publishers Team17 and developer Villa Gorilla released a new trailer for their upcoming their pinball platformer Yoku’s Island Express. This new trailer showcases the world that players will arrive in as they take up their new postman duties.  Yoku’s Island Express is due for release on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo […]

Video Game Review – Victor Vran Overkill Edition

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Scott Watson reviews Victor Vran Overkill Edition… It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Then again, there’s the flipside too that familiarity breeds contempt. Victor Vran, by Haemimont Games (of Tropico fame), straddles that ever so thin line between both splendidly. An action RPG with a storyline steeped in Grimm’s […]

Critical Thinking: Why Do People Care So Much About Canon?

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Anghus Houvouras on canon… Movies are such an integral part of the creative experience. As children, when we’re first introduced to the medium, we don’t understand the complexities of cinema. We are simply awed by the amalgamation of vision and sound that brings us stories in a new and exciting way. It is the ultimate […]

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 gets a new trailer for Nintendo Switch release

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Bandai Namco has released a brand new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo Switch release of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, which comes with exclusive content including motion control options during battle, a local ad-hoc multiplayer (up to 6 players) and local battle. Take a look at the trailer here… Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is set for release […]

Video Game Review – South Park: The Fractured But Whole

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Shaun Munro reviews South Park: The Fractured but Whole… After a series of frustrating delays, South Park: The Fractured but Whole is finally here, arriving amid the annual late-year AAA deluge and serving up a refreshing rebuke that’s by turns hilarious, deceptively deep and shamelessly offensive. While it doesn’t quite reach the loony heights of 2014’s […]

Season pass details and launch trailer for South Park: The Fractured But Whole revealed

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The humorously titled South Park: The Fractured But Whole will be available for Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC tomorrow (17th October) and for the South Park fans among you who intend to go a little further than just the base game Ubisoft have supplied all the details you could possibly want on the Season […]

DONTNOD Entertainment announces Life is Strange sequel

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DONTNOD, the developer behind Life is Strange, has just dropped a massive announcement, revealing that a sequel to the critically acclaimed game has been in development since last year. Take a look at the special message here… Square Enix, the publisher behind the game shared the thank you video on their blog, however they have also […]

Video Game Review – The Surge

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Dean Abdou reviews The Surge… The Surge is an action RPG developed by Deck13. The game is designed in the challenging role-playing game style of the Dark Souls series. The players use a newly developed exoskeleton to battle the enemies throughout the game. The exoskeleton can be customized using “modular upgrades” and the combat system […]

Xbox Live Deals with Gold for September 12th to September 18th

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The latest batch of Deals with Gold went live this morning on Xbox Live. The weekly sales are members only exclusive offers to Xbox Live Gold customers, and give access to discounted titles and addition content for games. The offers range from Xbox 360 to Xbox One, and titles will be backwards compatible. Xbox One Deals […]