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Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Waypoint #1

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Waypoint #1…To celebrate 50 years of STAR TREK, IDW Publishing, under license by CBS Consumer Products, will boldly launch a new series in September which honors the legacy of the various Starfleet crews which have inhabited the Star Trek universe over the past five decades.With Star Trek ongoing now parked up […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 2 Review – ‘Samsara’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf  XI Episode 2 – ‘Samsara’…Rimmer – Do you know what the difference is between you and me?Lister – I can’t store hand-luggage in me nostrils!Rimmer – I am cursed. I remember the day it happened.  I was nine years old and this busker claimed he was an Alien and he wanted […]

Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy

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Villordsutch reviews Retroid for the Game Boy…The Nintendo Game Boy arrived on the gaming scene back in 1989 and it truly took the world by storm, combined with the Game Boy Color, Light and “Play it Loud” releases the Game Boy to date has sold 118.69 Million Units.  What’s more scary if you multiply that […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek New Visions: Swarm

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek New Visions: Swarm…In our latest offering from the comic book master that is John Byrne, we find the Enterprise and her crew on the trail of drones that travel the cosmos, vibrating stars to death and feeding on their remains.  Though you may snort at this glib opener, Swarm is one of Star […]

Technical specifications released for the ZX Spectrum Next

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After the release of the ZX Spectrum Vega+ technical specs just the other day, it would seem us retrogamers of the world are being spoilt, as arriving late yesterday evening on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook page was the final technical specifications for the rather splendid looking machine that is the ZX Spectrum Next.  Not […]

Star Trek: Discovery launch date revealed

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Over at StarTrek.com the expected release date for Bryan Fuller’s upcoming new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery has been announced. This new show is expected to arrive in May 2017, when we’ll see the first Star Trek series in ten years warp onto our screens.Star Trek: Discovery to premiere on the paid service CBS All Access, […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 1 Review – ‘Twentica’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf  XI Episode 1 – “Twentica”…Rimmer – “We’re picking up a ship heading straight for us in an unmapped region of deep space.” Lister – “Where?”Rimmer – “Nearing region: Uncharted, Sector: No Name, Quadrant: Nameless.”The boys from the JMC are back! Along with the Cat and the Mechanoid… they’re all back! Except […]

Dan Dare coming to Big Finish in December

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Big Finish has announced today that we will be seeing Dan Dare arrive as a brand new audio production from B7 Media which will star Ed Stoppard as the titular hero alongside Geoff McGivern as Digby, Heida Reed as Professor Peabody and Raad Rawi as the villainous Mekon.Created by Frank Hampson, Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare appeared […]

Book Review – Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson

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Villordsutch reviews Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson…For anybody who lived through the home computing boom of the 1980’s if you glimpsed Hewson Consultants on the front of one of your games it meant two things: 1) Here was a fantastic, well made game which was going to keep you engaged for […]