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Video Game Review – Tales from The Borderlands: Episode 2

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Martin Burgoyne reviews Tales from The Borderlands: Episode 2… Now I have never played a Borderlands game before, but thought they looked cool. All cel-shaded and very different to anything else out there. I think that all of this translates over so well as the games clearly have a very specific sarcastic style of humour. Don’t […]

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 […]

The Return of Nintendo: The Rise of a Great Gaming Brand

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It looks like Nintendo, after years of failing to follow in the footsteps of its most fierce competitors Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox, is set to venture into gaming applications for phones. The revelation that they had finally shaken off their aversion to non-console platform gaming and were taking what has been described as a […]

Nintendo CEO debunks Legend of Zelda TV series rumour

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Back in February it was reported that Netflix is developing a live-action series based upon the classic video game franchise The Legend of Zelda, which was being described as “Game of Thrones for a family audience.” Well, it looks like the story was inaccurate, as Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has debunked the claism in an […]

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 […]

Video Game Review – Resident Evil Revelations 2 Episode 4

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Alan Heath reviews Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Episode 4 on PC… Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is an episodic sequel to the 3DS title that took the franchise back towards its survival horror roots after a couple of action packed entries into the franchise. Set between the events of Resident Evil 5 and 6, Revelations 2 […]

Interview with the creators of noirish puzzler White Night

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Martin Burgoyne chats with Domenico Albani, Ronan Coiffec and Mathieu Fremont about White Night… I recently got the chance to interview Domenico Albani, Ronan Coiffec and Mathieu Fremont, the talented French trio down at Osome-Studio, about their “old school” survival horror game White Night. Here we discuss everything from major influences to French cuisine… Hi […]