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Memorable Star Wars Moments – Han Solo Tortured

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is Villordsutch with Han Solo’s torture scene from The Empire Strikes Back… Star Wars for myself as a child was A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and of course The […]

Interview with Run, the creator, writer and artist of Mutafukaz

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Villordsutch interviews Run and they talk all things Mutafukaz… Mutafukaz (Vol.1) was released back in October 2015 and it is quite brilliant (you can catch our review of it here).  Not your average comic and certainly not following the normal rules of how a comic should flow, this piece of art by creator, artist and writer Run […]

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 […]

Titan Comics to publish Deus Ex comic book series

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Titan Comics have announced that they will be publishing the comic book series Deus Ex, and they will soon be expanding this cyber-punk filled, dystopian world which delves deep into the twists and turns of social turmoil and political backstabbing; all leading up to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Deus Ex – for those that don’t know – is a […]

Hardware Review – ZX Spectrum Vega

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Villordsutch reviews the ZX Spectrum Vega… I’ve been interested in getting my hands on the ZX Spectrum Vega since its conception a year or so ago.  I’ve been a ZX Spectrum user since the early 1980’s, my first Sinclair product was the ZX81, then I went straight to the hard-shelled 48K and moved to the […]

Are the Oliver Twins making a new Dizzy game?

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Here is a true blast from the very dust-caked past for those of you of a certain age, and those who remember when 8-bit games where just actually called “games”. If can you recall when we traded these games upon magnetic tape we called “cassettes”, then you will also remember a certain egg from the […]

Strax to team up with Jago and Litefoot in a special Doctor Who spin-off from Big Finish

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Big Finish Productions has just announced a very interesting amalgamation that is bound to be rather brilliant.  Strax, the Sontaran butler to Victorian investigator Vastra and her wife Jenny, will be swapping the Paternoster Gang for a short spell with Jago and Litefoot.  This new release will be called Jago & Litefoot & Strax. In […]

Report: PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester

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Villordsutch reports from PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester… Yesterday evening I attending the grand opening of PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester.  The doors were finally flung open for a hands on video gaming event for the next coming fortnight, which will see people embracing gaming through the past three decades. Whether […]

Big Finish to adapt the original The Avengers comic strips

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Big Finish Productions has signed a licence with STUDIOCANAL and DC Thomson to produce full cast audio productions of The Avengers comic strips which were original published in Diana in 1966 and 1967. The eight episodes will be released over two box sets in April and November 2016, and will run alongside The Avengers: The […]