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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #34 – Deus Ex Machina

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Waving goodbye to I, Ball 2 we look to the future, crossing our fingers and hoping that our next title in the Your Sinclair Top 100 will be something quite frankly brilliant.  Then to see that we have real life British music, film and television greats involved in our next release it can only mean […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #35 – I, Ball II

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With Cybernoid appearing yesterday in the Your Sinclair Top 100, the bar has been set pretty damn high for our next contender to pass.  So it’s going to be interesting to see if this budget labelled game – I, Ball 2 – from Firebird, currently sat at No.#35 can do that. I, Ball 2 arrived […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #36 – Cybernoid

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We are currently on a roll in the Your Sinclair Top 100 with Gauntlet then Lode Runner and now we have something truly fantastic.  At No.#36 is Cybernoid from one of the most respected publishing houses out there, Hewson Consultants Ltd. Cybernoid arrived on the ZX Spectrum in 1988, created by Raffaele Cecco, Nick Jones, John M. Phillips, […]

SDCC: Tom Taylor to write Injustice 2 prequel

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During the Injustice 2 panel, DC announced that in the months leading up to the anticipated sequel they will release a digital first prequel comic with fan-favourite writer Tom Taylor returning to the Injustice world. Taylor wrote the Injustice: Year One comic, a prequel to Injustice: Gods Among Us that told the story of how Superman fell from grace and became […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #37 – Lode Runner

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From one classic to another today in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  We lay down our chosen weapon and drag ourselves out from the dungeons of Gauntlet to climb the many ladders littered within No.#37 as we are hunted within bricked realm of Lode Runner, from Software Projects Ltd. Lode Runner was originally conceived way back on the […]

Exclusive: Composer Bill Brown discusses working on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six along with revealing two never released tracks

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With the recent release of Tom Clancy’s The Division by Ubisoft and the news that Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and star in a movie based on the game we decided to speak with a person whom is very familiar with Tom Clancy’s work, composer Bill Brown. Brown began his career scoring Clancy’s Rainbow Six in […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #38 – Gauntlet

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If the life of a cut-throat Mercenary isn’t for you then it’s time to leave the wire-frame world behind and pick up either a bow, staff, sword or axe as No.#38 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 is the rather excellent Gauntlet from U.S. Gold. Gauntlet began life as a four-player Atari arcade game back […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #39 – Mercenary

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Cruising highways are gone and now forgotten as we wave goodbye to Highway Encounter; with our next entry in the Your Sinclair Top 100 our world has become somewhat hollow, somewhat wireframe, and now we sell our cut throat services for cash.  At No.#39 is the 3D game of technical wizardry – it’s time to […]

Pokemon Go fever grips Springfield in The Simpsons short

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Pokemon fever is gripping the globe thanks to the latest iteration, Pokemon Go, and it’s even reached as far as Springfield! Yes, Homer Simpson has fallen victim to the game, neglecting his parental duties during a family trip to the zoo as he tries to catch them all in a new Simpsons short released by […]