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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #96 – Cruising on Broadway

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing with the countdown we arrive at No. 96 and with this we hit Cruising on Broadway from Solarsoft, released way back in 1983. With the box art and title – seen above – you’d probably be expecting something flash and filled to the back […]

Video Game Review – Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition

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Calum Petrie reviews Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition… Not a Hero – Super Snazzy Edition is the console release of Rollingmedia’s disturbing and frantic side scrolling shooter. The game is a bizarre mix of over the top violence with satire of stereotypes ranging from drunken Scottish people to Russian gangsters. With its side scrolling […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #97 – Mined-Out

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Working our way on through the Top 100, we cautiously step into No. 97 arriving at Mined-Out from Quicksilva, released back in 1983. Mined-Out featured some classic box-art for a ZX Spectrum game, that not only did it have bare-chested lady on the front, but it fibbed about […]

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: #99 – Maziacs

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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 Maziacs from dk’tronics. Though dk’tronics – who were based in Great Yarmouth – produced mainly hardware for Sinclair machines, it was on the rare occasion they dipped their toes into […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #100 – Zzoom

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Back in the 1980s there was a computer that existed in most British homes called the ZX Spectrum.  This machine was the doorway to many different worlds for anyone that owned it, as we tanned our faces which rested two foot away from a cathode-ray screen every […]

Video Game Review – Superhot

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Martin Carr reviews Superhot… Superhot is a starkly minimalistic excursion into the realms of first person shooters, which is both slickly stylish and instantly addictive. Set in a world where time moves only when you do, Superhot uses silhouetted enemies cloaked in red to test your mettle. Contrasted against the combination of white and grey […]

Video Game Review – Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

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Thomas Roach reviews Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End… The much anticipated Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End lets players take our protagonist Nathan Drake on one last adventure. Having waited through several delays for the game it is finally great to get our hands on it. Many of us had high expectations from the final game […]

The Week in Star Wars – Tom Hardy in Episode VIII, Finn and Rey relationship, Battlefront 2 announced, Star Wars: Bloodline reviewed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, we’ve got more cameo rumours, news on Battlefront 2, a review of Star Wars: Bloodline and more… We’re kicking things off this week with some more rumours surrounding cameos for Star Wars: Episode VIII. A couple of weeks back we heard that Prince William and Prince […]