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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #70 – G-Force

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We leave the Pleasuredome from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, setting our sights on Number #70 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 games and it’s rather a bizarre little number called G-Force; rather disappointingly it’s not the kids cartoon from the early 1980’s.G-Force arrived in 1983 from EMM Software, created by Boris Baginski (BB Design). This […]

The Week in Star Wars – More on the Rogue One reshoots, Episode VIII nears production end, new games from E3, Hayden Christensen return and more

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The Week in Star Wars returns with some updates on the Rogue One reshoots, all the news coming out of E3 (new games!) and Hayden Christensen begging to return yet again…We’ll kick things off this week with an update on those Rogue One: A Star Wars Story reshoots. If you’re behind on the story, you […]

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance may be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4

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According to the Taiwan Game Software Rating Board (via Gematsu), Activision is set to bring its two Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games to PlayStation and Xbox One, along with 2012’s Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, with all three games receiving ratings for the current-gen platforms.Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was developed by Raven Software and featured similar four-player co-op […]

Video Game Review – Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum…In today’s Homebrew Reviews on the ZX Spectrum you become one of the most vile creatures on the planet – a summer destroying wasp – as you attempt to keep the garden in which you live clean of all things not you.Loading Invasive Species from Sludge and with the cracking title […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #71– Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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With Hijack and it hellish lifts safely behind us, we now set sail for a completely different location as we head for Liverpool, Merseyside to both solve a murder and find our way to the Pleasuredome.  We’ve arrived at No.#71  in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s the completely bizarre Frankie Goes to Hollywood.Ocean […]

Interview – Sam Dyer discusses the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium

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Villordsutch recently managed to speak with Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books, the man behind Sinclair ZX Spectrum: The Visual Compendium, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium and also Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium, the latest book that has just entered Kickstarter with a fairly massive bang is the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium…Villordsutch: Firstly congratulations and […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #72– Hijack

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With the simple life of bringing love to your girl behind us with Popeye, our world has become somewhat more troublesome in Hijack, which lands at Number #72 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  A game in which the fate of hostages around the world arrive on your desk within the Pentagon.In our first game within the […]

Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour Teaser Review

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Chris Cooper reviews Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour…The Resident Evil series is in an odd state. Whilst RE5 and RE6 attempted to head-shot it with their ridiculous focus on action the Revelations side series has acted like a green herb, bringing it back from the brink and giving me hope for the future.I wasn’t expecting […]