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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #66 – Splat!

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Leaving the round-house kicks with Way of The Exploding Fist behind us, we look at a game that on first impressions you may want to walk away from, but if you stick around for a few minutes Splat! – at no.#66 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 – will hook you in for hours! Splat! […]

Video game Firewatch heading to the big screen

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Good Universe is partnering up with video game developer Campo Santo to develop both feature film and video game content, beginning with a big screen adaptation of Campo Santo’s critically acclaimed first-person mystery Firewatch. “When we met Good Universe we were floored by how they recognize, cultivate and produce […]

Countdown to Justice League – Injustice: Gods Among Us

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Justice League with Injustice: Gods Among Us… One of the more common complaints about the DCEU – specifically Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – is that it is too dour and lacks the hopeful feel of the comics. Its got nothing, though, on the alternate world of […]

Update 31 for Conan Exiles brings thrall inventories and buildings segments

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Funcom have announced that Update 31 is now available for Conan Exiles on PC.  This latest update introduces inventories for thralls allowing you to equip them with gear and clothing, workbenches and lots of new building pieces to create even more impressive structures.  Funcom have released a trailer to accompany this update, which you can […]

Hyper Mode returning to Dying Light

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Techland have announced that fan-favourite community-led challenge, Hyper Mode, will be making a return to their extreme zombie hit, Dying Light.  This challenge is available to play now and will run until 3:30pm BST on the 8th October. In this latest Hyper Mode challenge players will be required to achieve a total zombie kill count of […]

Nintendo teaming with Illumination Entertainment for animated Mario movie

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It looks like Nintendo may finally have got over the disastrous 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. movie, as the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the gaming giant is teaming up with Illumination Entertainment for an animated movie featuring its iconic company mascot. According to the report, negotiations have been going on for a year, […]

Video Game Review – McDroid

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Emma Withington reviews McDroid… After crash landing on Planet M, which – unusually – isn’t talking, McDroid and his companion SHUTTLE find their home planet is not as they remember it. Something is wrong. The planet is fraught with corruption and it is up to McDroid and SHUTTLE to make things right and return bliss to Planet […]