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Nintendo announces first smartphone game Miitomo

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Having dominated the handheld gaming market for so long prior to the rise of smartphones, Nintendo has now officially announced its very first mobile game, entitled Miitomo. Produced in partnership with DeNA, Miitomo will be “free to start”, with additional add-ons available at a price. Here’s the official description of the game from Nintendo’s press […]

The Week in Star Wars – New poster and trailer for The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams responds to “anti-white” claims, box office predictions, Luke Skywalker turning to the Dark Side and more

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It’s a packed edition of The Week in Star Wars following a new poster and trailer for The Force Awakens alongside some record breaking ticket sales, #BoycottStarWarsVIII, Luke Skywalker turning to the Dark Side and more…Well, what a week this has been. We’ll kick things off with last Sunday’s new poster for Star Wars: The Force […]

Wonderland Dizzy announced at the “Let’s Go Dizzy!” event!

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Here at Flickering Myth we’ve caught glimpses of a new Dizzy game over on the horizon, coming from the direction of the Oliver Twins from Radiant Worlds for some time, but what we didn’t expect from this game was it is technically twenty-two years old and that it will also be free to everyone!Just announced at “Let’s Go […]

The Week in Star Wars – New trailer for The Force Awakens, runtime rumours, female directors are “going to happen” and more

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We’ve got a couple of rumours in this edition of The Week in Star Wars surrounding trailers, ratings and runtimes. We’ve also got word on female directors joining the universe, comic book previews and new maps for Battlefront…Kicking things off as we normally do with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and a new rumour surfaced […]

Video Game Review – Elite: Dangerous

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Martin Carr reviews Elite: Dangerous…Elite: Dangerous should come with a health warning. This game is not designed for the novice. Ported over from PC with no graphical compromise and minimal lag, Frontier has offered up an open world experience Xbox One style. That it comes with a list of YouTube based training tutorials, which are […]

Video Game Review – Prison Architect

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Villordsutch reviews Prison Architect…Prison Architect is a funny game. I’d say funny little game, but it isn’t that.  I first encountered it around three ago at my first PLAY Expo and I can honestly say, after walking around the stand a few times rather confused, I thought this was an educational game, which involved you […]

Video Game Review – PES 2016

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Andy Naylor reviews PES 2016…Last year’s PES [read our review here] was promising. It showed some footballing intuition, it felt better than any PS3/360 incarnation ever did. With this in mind, there was a trickle of excitement at how, in the following 12 months, Konami could tweak and improve upon the positive steps taken in PES 2015 […]

Interview – Philip Oliver discusses SkySaga at PLAY Expo

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Villordsutch interviews Philip Oliver and they talk about SkySaga…I met Andrew Oliver earlier in the day as he was setting up the SkySaga stall. Philip had decided to drive up.  The stand place was already getting busy and I was also chatting with Boomkin the Community bod.  When I returned later for my interview, a […]

Interview with James Brown from Gang Beasts

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Villordsutch interviews James Brown from Gang Beasts…Gang Beasts at Play Expo is manned – from what I can see – by two people, James Brown and his father.  They are truly an indie game company and they are currently neck deep in people.  I can’t recall seeing an indie game stand politely asking people to […]