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Book Review – Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson

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Villordsutch reviews Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson… For anybody who lived through the home computing boom of the 1980’s if you glimpsed Hewson Consultants on the front of one of your games it meant two things: 1) Here was a fantastic, well made game which was going to keep you engaged […]

No Man’s Sky Is Better Than You Think

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Christopher Machell on No Man’s Sky… It’s safe to say that for many, No Man’s Sky’s is a colossal disappointment. Consisting of shallow inventory management, frustrating combat, and planetary wildlife that is as repetitive in its behaviour as it is varied in appearance, the playground of No Man’s Sky may be beautiful but it is […]

Ten great ZX81 games you really need to play!

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Villordsutch with ten great ZX81 games you really need to play… Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 celebrated its 35th Anniversary in March 2016.  This small unassuming machine to most people today, with a mere 1K of RAM, is quite possibly laughable 0 but this sleek flat-keyboarded machine began a revolution that is still rolling today. When […]

Video Game Review – RunGunJumpGun

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Villordsutch reviews RunGunJumpGun on the PC… It’s been a long time since I’ve truthfully swore at a computer game, and I’m talking really cursed the pixelated screen to damnation swearing here.  Yes, I perhaps let slip the occasional rude word here and there at other games but I don’t think a game like RunGunJumpGun has […]

Video Game Review – Strike Vector EX

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Scott Watson reviews Strike Vector EX… Oh this is glorious… this is war, this is balls to the wall air combat dog-fighting, this is a first person shooter strapped into mech-inspired craft. This is the free-flying combat joy of Strike Vector EX and I love it! For a long time I’ve been crying out for a dog-fighting game […]

Video Game Review – Yun on the Nintendo Entertainment System

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Villordsutch reviews Yun on the NES… In today’s Homebrew Reviews we take a look at another NES release, this time from the Mojon Twins who have released a fair few ZX Spectrum games in the past, but are currently producing a number of crowdfunded NES and Megadrive games.  Their most recent free release is called Yun […]

Video Game Review – Lifeless Planet PS4 Edition

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Emma Withington reviews Lifeless Planet… Our astronaut’s mission hasn’t quite gone to plan, as he awakes after crash landing on a desolate planet with a concussion. This can’t be right, the planet was supposedly full of life and potentially habitable for humans. Where are the rest of the crew? What happened here? Is this even […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #1 – Deathcase

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Well this is it!  We turn off Rebelstar and load up the final game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  It’s been over three months but finally we get to see what the greatest ZX Spectrum* magazine believed was the ultimate title in the Spectrum’s history.  At No.#1 we have Deathcase from Micromega! (*probably) It was […]

Video Game Review – Hitman Episode 4: Bangkok

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Chris Sanderson reviews Hitman Episode 4: Bangkok… Hey Guys, Kris Wall is having some technical difficulties on his end this week so I have been tasked with covering the new Episode of Hitman. Having only played Hitman: Absolution previously, I got the opportunity to play through all of the previous episodes leading directly into Bangkok for […]