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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance may be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4

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According to the Taiwan Game Software Rating Board (via Gematsu), Activision is set to bring its two Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games to PlayStation and Xbox One, along with 2012’s Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, with all three games receiving ratings for the current-gen platforms. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was developed by Raven Software and featured similar four-player […]

Video Game Review – PES 2016

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Andy Naylor reviews PES 2016… Last year’s PES [read our review here] was promising. It showed some footballing intuition, it felt better than any PS3/360 incarnation ever did. With this in mind, there was a trickle of excitement at how, in the following 12 months, Konami could tweak and improve upon the positive steps taken in PES […]

Interview with James Brown from Gang Beasts

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Villordsutch interviews James Brown from Gang Beasts… Gang Beasts at Play Expo is manned – from what I can see – by two people, James Brown and his father.  They are truly an indie game company and they are currently neck deep in people.  I can’t recall seeing an indie game stand politely asking people […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #83 – Football Manager

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It takes a steely nerve to put a curly-haired, bearded chap smiling on the cover of something and then expect it to sell well. In truth this only really happens once a decade it being Bob Ross’ (Deceased) turn the decade before.  However when Kevin Toms appeared, smiling on the cover of his Football Manager […]

The Top 10 Greatest ZX Spectrum Tunes Ever!

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Going through the Top 100 Your Sinclair games [follow the countdown here] I’ve become aware of the rather brilliant – and also dire – tunes that were designed around the games – some hidden amongst levels, but most placed in a prominent spot as the game’s main theme. Not wanting to be overly biased I strolled along […]

Video Game Review – Overwatch

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Tom Powter reviews Overwatch… Multiplayer only games have something of a bad reputation. They’re often seen as half-baked experiences with little-to-no longevity supplemented by paid season passes and additional content, an opinion exacerbated by titles like Titanfall and Evolve, whose player bases simply evaporated when the next big title appeared. This trail of thought has […]

Mirror’s Edge heading to the small screen for TV series

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EA DICE’s video game franchise Mirror’s Edge is heading to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that Endemol Shine Studios has snapped up the rights to develop a female-centred action series. “We clearly see Mirror’s Edge as a franchise for the global TV audience,” said Sharon Hall, President of Endemol Shine Studios. “It has a […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #98 – Pheenix

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Pheenix from Megadodo. Megadodo released three games in total – including Pheenix – and other than they share the same name of the publishing company behind the fictional Hitchhikers […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #94 – RoboCop

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Arriving at Number #94 and we hit one of the first crimes in this Your Sinclair Top 100 as we find Murphy upholding the law and searching for justice in one of the greatest movie tie-in games on the ZX Spectrum.  We’ve arrived – already […]