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Microsoft introducing a Netflix-style game subscription service

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Do you enjoy Netflix? That monthly payment for access to hundreds of TV shows and movies? Wouldn’t it be great if there was something like that for games? WAIT! There is! Or will be… Today, Microsoft have announced a new gaming subscription service for Xbox players which they are set to offer this spring. Just like […]

Video Game Review – Forma.8

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Daniel James Thomas reviews Forma.8… Forma.8, a game developed and published by MixedBag and originally released back in 2015 for Wii U, has now been released for several other platforms! Today, I get my opportunity to experience Forma.8 for PlayStation 4! Forma.8 is a game where you take control of a circular flying alien who, […]

Video Game Review – Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode 1 “Tangled Up in Blue”

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Shaun Munro reviews Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode 1 “Tangled Up in Blue” Continuing to prove the prevailing inconsistency of Telltale Games’ episodic adventures to date, their stab at Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a fairly pedestrian exercise in fan wish fulfillment that does just enough to make it worthwhile for the hardcore […]

Video Game Review – Atomic Ghost Fleet

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Shaun Munro reviews Atomic Ghost Fleet… Alchemy’s Atomic Ghost Fleet meanwhile shifts the action to Bikini Atoll to examine the remnants of the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests performed there, which in turn transformed it into a World War II warship graveyard of sorts. This 18-minute documentary gets up close and personal with three warships, including the USS Saratoga, the […]

Video Game Review – Late Shift

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Shaun Munro reviews Late Shift… Late Shift is an ambitious attempt to revitalise the oft-ridiculed FMV game genre, an interactive movie of sorts that brings with it an impressive production quality and unexpected degree of Hollywood pedigree, with Michael Robert Johnson (co-writer of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 Sherlock Holmes reboot) penning the branching heist thriller narrative. London-based Maths student Matt […]

Video Game Review – The Nonary Games

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews The Nonary Games… Have you ever read one of those ‘choose your own adventure’ books that were very popular in the 80’s and 90’s? Each page ends with a choice of how the story progresses – “If you want to go through the left door, turn to page 6, if you want […]

Video Game Review – Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

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Shaun Munro reviews Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition… People Can Fly’s 2011’s cult throwback shooter Bulletstorm is a bizarre candidate for an HD remaster, considering that it sold poorly the first time around and has also aged extremely well aesthetically. That said, as an easy excuse to give this gonzo FPS another shot, the Full Clip Edition is a fun […]

Video Game Review – PaRappa the Rapper Remastered

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Shaun Munro reviews PaRappa the Rapper Remastered… As a common fixture on PS1 demo discs, PaRappa the Rapper is ingrained in the minds of an entire generation of gamers, many of whom perhaps didn’t even play the full title. The legendary 1997 rhythm game marks its 20th anniversary with a glossy 4K remaster, which while doing little […]

Video Game Review – VR Karts

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Shaun Munro reviews VR Karts… Viewpoint Games’ VR Karts attempts to infuse greater immersion into the much-loved Mario Kart formula, and tantalising though that idea sounds on paper, the depressingly lacking end product makes it a disappointing failure. The gameplay loop is essentially Mario Kart to a T; you race around short, colourful maps, collecting speed boosts and power-ups which can then […]