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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #57 – Dun Darach

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After all the “pew-pews” yesterday in Operation Wolf, most of you are no doubt tired and need a well-earned sit down.  Well pull up a chair, get a very big sheet of paper, some pencils, a big rubber, book a week off work and load up Dun Darach – which is No.#57 in the Your […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #74– Pang

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After a succession of not overly enjoyable games  – with the final one being Wriggler – it’s great to finally pick up a game that not only rings back from the past with some brilliant gaming memories, but within the opening few rounds still shows you that the gameplay has been retained after a quarter of a century.  […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #55 – Saboteur

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Leaving the dire Bounty Bob Strikes Back hopefully far behind us, we look to the light and hope that around the corner in the Your Sinclair Top 100 something wonderful is waiting at Number #55, and I can tell you that something is.  Out from the shadows steps Saboteur! Saboteur was published back in 1985 by […]

Gaming Tech Review – Venom Sabre Stereo Gaming Headset

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Villordsutch reviews the Venom Sabre Stereo Gaming Headset… With the gaming headset market currently being swamped by extra-shiny objects of desire, each coming with a heavy price tag for the added bells and whistles, it’s rather refreshing to come across something that looks the part, but at the same time won’t a) be worrying your […]

Book Review – Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond… In this latest Eaglemoss Hero Collector Star Trek book, titled Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond, I was expecting perhaps a cluster of pages on Voyager, the Delta Flyer, the hairy Kazon and narrow-minded Voth, with a wee bit […]

Bethesda reveals new ways to fight the demons of Hell within DOOM Eternal

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DOOM Eternal is now mere months away and as 2020 rolls towards us, we’re starting to feel sorry for the upcoming new year, for it doesn’t know yet that it will have to contain thousands of demons from Hell!  The sequel to 2016’s award-winning DOOM, DOOM Eternal from Bethesda is one of the most anticipated […]

Build your own Ecto-1 with Eaglemoss Hero Collector model

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With Sigourney Weaver last week revealing that she will be making a return to the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, we now have some more Ghostbusters news and this comes straight from last weekend’s Ghostbusters Fan Fest. Eaglemoss Collections, the company with forty years of experience in delivering highly detailed die-cast models, figures and collectables including Star […]

Retro Review – Sheep It Up, a new release for the Game Boy

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Villordsutch reviews Sheep It Up… Take a look at the vast Game Boy catalogue of games and in amongst the many platform titles, the RPGs and the numerous Pokémon releases you will find hyper-addictive time-killers.  These games are amazingly simple to learn (looking at you Tetris) but are so difficult to put down without first cursing […]

Overwatch League playoff gear arrives at the Blizzard Gear Store Europe

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With the Overwatch League Playoff’s already underway, what better way is there to support your home team than to be wearing their official colours, and now thanks to the Blizzard Gear Store Europe you can do just that.  So whether you’re a true fan of Boston Uprising, or the London Spitfire’s or a die-hard follower […]