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Interview – Kabam! Studios’ Cuz Parry on Marvel’s Contest of Champions

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Ben Rayner talks to Kabam! Studios’ Cuz Parry about Marvel’s Contest of Champions… With Avengers: Age of Ultron arriving in cinemas with a crash in the past week, Marvel fever is reaching palpable levels. It’s no surprise then, that Marvel have teamed up with Kabam! Studios in order to release a free to play brawler […]

Video Game Review – Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China

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Ben Rayner reviews Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China… It’s hard to believe that in its short time, Assassin’s Creed has become such a huge franchise, rich in lore and more plot threads than your average conspiracy theory. In fact, it bares the hugest conspiracy theory of all, one which spans all of human history and tells […]

Marvel and Telltale Games teaming up for video game series in 2017

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Marvel is partnering up with Telltale Games, the company behind episodic adventures The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones, has announced that it is partnering up with Marvel for new console and PC project, due to land in 2017. “Announced this evening in San Francisco, we’re excited […]

Nathan Fillion returning as Malcolm Reynolds for Firefly Online

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Developers Spark Plug Games and Quantum Mechanix have announced that Nathan Fillion is set to reprise the role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds for the upcoming MMO Firefly Online. The game will reunite him with several original Firefly cast members for Firefly Online, including Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb), Summar Glau (River Tam), Ron Glass (Shepherd Book), […]

Video Game Review – We Are Doomed

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Andrew Newton reviews We Are Doomed… WE ARE DOOMED is a twin-stick shooter where you zap polygon baddies with an absurdly overpowered laserbeam. Dive head-first into the action with reckless ambition, charge the SUPERBEAM, and zap everything out of existence in an instant. Chase high scores or just enjoy the beautiful explosion of geometry, colour […]

XBox One Accessory Review – Gioteck BP-2 Play and Charge Battery Kit

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I still find it hard to believe that despite all the advances of the XBox One that they still only issued a controller that required 2 x AA batteries.  The speed at which I was going through batteries took me back to my days playing the Sega Game Gear and those who remember that hand-held […]

Gioteck HC4 Headset review

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The Gioteck HC4 amplified stereo headset is an excellent piece of accessory design and an absolute necessity if you’re in need of a new way to chat with your friends, and listen to game audio. The headset is perfect for the gamer on a budget who wants an upgrade, with high quality audio and a […]

Video Game Review – White Night

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Martin Burgoyne reviews White Night… White Night is an ‘Old School’ survival-horror game, shot in a very stark black & white style with heavy film noir influences. You play a mysterious individual who crashes his car late one night after he tries to avoid an apparition in the middle of the road (sound familiar?) The game is set in […]

Video Game Review – 5 Star Wrestling

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Tom Jolliffe reviews 5 Star Wrestling… Wrestling has been immensely popular over the last thirty years. Once a bastion of Saturday afternoon entertainment on TV during the 2-3 three channel days, it then became less sport and more entertainment focused. A living, athletic and slightly sweaty soap opera, full of drama, twists, turns and budgie […]