📦🛸🚚 Out Of Space | PC | Early Access | Preview | Ten Minute Taster | Quick Look "Mind The Alien Goop" 📦🛸🚚 #OutOfSpace @beholdstudios

Out Of Space is a strategy local and online multiplayer game about moving into a new home with your friends - in space! Clean up, furnish the rooms and work out housekeeping systems, all while trying to get rid of pesty alien critters that are ruining your plans for a dream home.

🎻🎶 London Video game Orchestra: The Classics! – 23/02/2020 | "In summary…the London Video Game Orchestra rocks!" 🎻🎶 @lvgorchestra

Being the kind sort I am - and knowing the amount of time Faye has spent listening to orchestral versions of classic video game music on Spotify – I managed to snag a couple of tickets to this London Video Game Orchestra show when they were released at the tail end of 2019 and booked our hotel and travel plans way in advance.

I knew that the LVGO was an amateur orchestra who had formed in 2019 and had only previously played two shows, beyond that, I had no idea what to expect. I also admit that this was my first time seeing a live symphony orchestra, my only prior experience being seeing smaller orchestras playing alongside rock bands and vocalists so I was really excited to drink in the ambience.

🧙‍♂️🎴👹A Long Way Down | Early Access | Review | PC | "Deck Building & Maze Running" 🧙‍♂️🎴👹 #GameDev #IndieGames

A Long Way Down has a different angle on the whole Roguelite Deck Building shenanigans and comes up with a really cool system to grab you immediately.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Leeds United - Episode 30: "The Wonder Of Woan" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🏯🎎⚔️ Katana Zero | REVIEW | PC | "A Must Buy For Any Indie Gamer" 🏯🎎⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGames

Katana Zero is set around a Samurai Assassin type character who can shift through time to kill targets. It’s a 2D action platformer developed by Asjiisoft and published by Devolver Digital. It seems to take something from the Hotline Miami collection, not a lot, but I see some similarities in the game. The game is very fast-paced so be ready to play as a fast, time travelling Samurai with a complicated background. 

🔥 Dead Cells | BAD SEED DLC | Review | PC | "Flawless Absolutely Flawless" 🔥 @motiontwin #GameDev #IndieGames

Have you ever played a video game where you just can’t fathom out how a developer would be able to create such exquisite perfectness?

I’m here to tell you what you already know and that is that Dead Cells is the epitome of perfection.

This game is slicker than the Fonz and more addictive than a kilogram jar of Nutella.

🛸 🧠 It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains| Review | PS4 | "Britt & 'Co-Op Chris Tuck In" 🧠 🛸 #GameDev #IndieGames @trianglestudios

It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains is a stylised voxel-based shooter that was originally released on PC in 2015 and is reminiscent of titles such as the mighty dead Nation and has shades of Neon Chrome.

It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains is a super-smooth and addictive isometric game that revels in its local co-op, split-screen glory but whilst it’s a solid and fun title, its basic premise and singular focus may not be to everyone’s tastes.

📰🎥 Headliner: Novinews | Review | PS4 | "A Game That Deserves to Make Headlines" 📰🎥 @UnboundCreation #IndieGames #GameDev

As the titular Headliner, it’s your job to choose which articles make it into Novinews, the national newspaper of the fictional country ‘Novistan’.

Each choice you make will have an impact not just in the wider world but will also massively affect co-workers, family and friends but can also threaten your very existence.

Presented in a format that’s reminiscent of a very, very light visual novel (this is a good thing), Headliner: Novinews presents the world as a single street to act as a microcosm of what is happening in the further reaches of the world.

🚗✈️🎮♟️ 5 Ways To Beat Boredom On Long Journeys 🚗✈️🎮♟️

Image Source: Pixabay CC0 Licence

For most of us, long journeys are a bit of a drag. There’s a lot of sitting around, waiting, and restlessness before we reach our exciting destination, and it can be tough to find ways to pass the time. 

The key to keeping yourself entertained is variation. That novel you’re reading might be great, but are you really gonna want to sit and read for the next six hours straight? Probably not. 

What you need are a few options. So if you’re looking for some ideas on how to pass the time whilst you’re travelling, check out the list below for some boredom-busting activities that’ll keep you entertained.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Cambridge United - Episode 29: "Psycho Destroyer" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

⚔️ Numskull Games to Publish Pixelated Hack n’ Slasher Battle Axe ⚔️ @NumskullGames @Toadsanime #IndieGames #GameDev #Kickstarter

You may not have heard of Henk Neiborg but you will probably be familiar with the titles that the veteran artist has turned his hand to – Lionheart, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, Contra 4, Shakedown: Hawaii and Xeno Crisis – You’ll notice that these games are, as the ancient Persians used to say, ‘very good’ (especially Shakedown: Hawaii, which was one of my top games of last year, funny and gorgeous to boot, cheers Henk).

🏯🏣🎎🉐 Tetsumo Party | PS4 | REVIEW | "Bring On The Wall!" 🏯🏣🎎🉐 #GameDev #IndieGame

In Tetsumo Party you’re a sumo wrestler who can contort his body into different shapes in order to match the hole in the wall that is travelling towards you at speed!

Use L1 and R1 to contort your left arm and right arm 

Use L2 and R2 to contort your left leg and right leg 

Use all the limb buttons quickly to match the shape in the wall

And repeat...

🎨🎮 Badly Drawn Video Games Consoles - 1. SEGA Mega Drive 🎨🎮 #Retrogaming #SEGA

Some days I find myself trying to draw stuff in MS Paint and those are the days when I manage to produce BADLY DRAWN VIDEO GAMES CONSOLES!

My plan is to draw as many badly drawn consoles as I can in 2020.

Let's see how far I get...

Rich

🎥🎙️📺 Not For Broadcast | Review | EARLY ACCESS | PC | "Don't Touch That Button!" 🎥🎙️📺 @notgamesuk @tinyBuild #GameDev #IndieGames

Not For Broadcast on the PC sees you thrown in at the deep end, you begin as a cleaner and end up as the producer for the nightly news in a dystopian 80’s timeline that sees Britain being run by a radical government that is looking to brainwash the nation with propaganda.

What the people of Britain see on their TV screens is now up to you...

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Cheltenham - Episode 28: "Forest Thrashing!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🕹️ 10 Of The Best Retro Gaming Inspired Browser Games 🕹️ #RetroGaming #BrowserGames

I was sifting through the internet when I came across some really cool retro-inspired browser games and I thought to myself what a wonderful world...

🌕🏯 LUNA The Shadow Dust | Review | PC | "LUNA In The Sky With Diamonds" 🌕🏯 #GamDev #IndieGames @LanternStudio_

LUNA The Shadow Dust is a visually stunning point n click adventure that has its own style and tells a story through visuals rather than words.

Each part of the game is a puzzle room for you to solve in order to progress.

You’ll use classic point n click gameplay mechanics alongside puzzle-solving tactics to progress through this beautiful hand-drawn world

As you progress you will also need to use your companion’s skills as you befriend a dog who is eager to assist you in your puzzle-solving antics.

👹 The Beast In My Head That Ruined Everything 👹 #MetroExodus

My brother kindly bought Metro Exodus for me as a Christmas gift, knowing I am a big fan of the game series. Anything miserable and Eastern European gets my hands rubbing together in glee and I must, MUST get around to reading the books that the games are based on. 

Having played the game for around five hours, I was really getting stuck in, until something happened that slammed the brakes on for me and resulted in my enjoyment of the game coming to an abrupt halt.

👑⚔️🧙 Heroland | Ten Minute Taster / Quick Look | PS4 | "Dungeons & Tourists" 👑⚔️🧙 #GameDev #IndieGames

Looking for a magical getaway? Yearning to go on an epic quest?

Excited about waiting in line for overpriced merch?

Then grab a sword and your annual pass, because Heroland awaits!

This is my first look at Hero Land on the PS4

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Derby County - Episode 27: "Stimac Stuffs Forest" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

💾🖥️ Stories Untold | Review | Nintendo Switch | "Something Gripping & Unique On The Nintendo Switch" 💾🖥️ #GameDev #IndieGame @devolverdigital

Stories Untold mashes together a few different RPG sub-genres in order to create a compelling story and something gripping and unique on the Nintendo Switch.

🏝️🕌👿🏝️ Devwill Too | Review | SEGA MEGA DRIVE / GENESIS | "A Retro 2D Platformer With An Existentialist Narrative" 🏝️🕌👿🏝️ #GameDev #IndieGames

A 2D platformer with an existentialist narrative delivered through simple gameplay, Devwill Too is only currently available for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis in physical form.

The developer – Paulo Andres de Matos Villalva – released the first game in the Devwill series (simply titled ‘Devwill’) on Steam in 2017 and it is currently priced at only a couple of pounds (£1.69, to be exact) it could be worth for people interested in this sequel to wait for a digital release as the physical copy is currently full price and probably one for Sega enthusiasts only. 

📮📬💌 Retro Gaming Postage Stamps From Heaven 📮📬💌 #RetroGaming #stampcollector

When I was about 6 years old I had a stamp collection of sorts. It consisted of an A4 book all about stamps through the ages and it had spaces in the book just in case you stumbled across a penny black and wanted to casually stick it into your book.

From memory, I had lots of 1st and second class stamps in there that I had lifted off of my mum and dad's regular post by steaming the envelopes.

⚔️🛡️ Valnir Rok | Review [EARLY ACCESS] | "Lock Up Your Boats The Vikings Are Crafting!" ⚔️🛡️ #GameDev #IndieGames @Valnir_Rok

Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game set in Viking times.

The focus of the game is on the exploration and crafting in order to survive.

The game is currently in early access and has been since 2017.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Liverpool - Episode 26: "Fowler Fires First!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🔫🔫 Re-Freeze – Britt’s take on the Outer Worlds 🔫🔫 #TheOuterWorlds

I know that my boss, ‘He Who Walks Behind The Frost’* or (‘Rich’ if you aren’t into the whole brevity thing**) was really taken with Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds, and, due to our almost psychic gaming connection, he knew that it would be something that I would find trouser-burningly interesting as well.

Being lucky enough to have been given an Xbox One S for Christmas from my dearly beloved, I instantly got hips deep into Game Pass and took full advantage by spending the festive period inhaling The Outer Worlds.

Did I like it? Yes… but with some caveats.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham Hotspur - Episode 25: "Ready Steady Teddy!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🎮 Britt's SEGA Mega Drive Day | “Would you mind if we spent all day playing Mega Drive games?” 🎮 #RetroGaming #SEGA #MegaDrive #Genesis

My brother came around last weekend and I had received a text from him the previous evening that simply asked:

“Would you mind if we spent all day playing Mega Drive games?”

My answer was in the affirmative, natch.

💀⚔️ SKUL: The Hero Slayer | PC | PREVIEW | "The Thigh Bone is Connected The Knee Bone" 💀⚔️ @HeroSkul #GameDev #IndieGames

I was kindly supplied with a preview key for Skul: The Hero Slayer and I have finally gotten around to playing this beautifully crafted pixel art rogue-lite platformer video game.

In Skul, you play as an adorably drawn pixel art skeleton called Skul who is tasked with saving the day by avenging the evil invasion of the King's castle. Skul takes on the Imperial Army and attempts to rescue his King from captivity in this rogue-lite 2D platformer.

🚀☄️👽 Deep Sky Derelicts | Review | PC | "Every Day I'm Scavenging" 🚀☄️👽 #GameDev #IndieGames

Deep Sky Derelicts is a tactical turn-based dungeon crawler set in our space with deck-building elements.

You are tasked with discovering the secrets of the galaxy by being flown across space to salvage items and secrets from derelict spaceships which house other salvagers and alien nasties to fight or trade with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/698640/Deep_Sky_Derelicts

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Wimbledon - Episode 24: "The Crazy Gang vs The Tricky Trees" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🚀☄️ Super Mega Space Blaster | PS4 | Ten Minute Taster 🚀☄️ @SMSpaceBlaster #IndieGames #GameDev

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is an old school shoot em up but with 21st-century twists and heaps of blaster, asteroid dodging fun!

🤖 Astro Bot Rescue Mission | Ten Minute Taster | "Robots & Giant Monkeys" 🤖 #PSVR

Astro Bot Rescue Mission is my favourite PSVR game so far and up there with the best PS4 games.

🐼🐧 Planet Zoo | Arctic DLC | Review /Overview | "Polar Bears, Reindeer, Wolves and Cold Sheep" 🐼🐧

Frontier has released the first Paid DLC for Planet Zoo and it’s the Arctic Pack It’s available on Steam for £7.99 / $9.99 / €9.99 It features two new scenarios and hundreds of foliage and scenery items. The stars of the show as always are the wonderful selection of animals to care for and in this DLC pack there is the Arctic Wolf, Polar Bear, Reindeer and the Dall Sheep.

🏎️🏁Ultimate Racing 2D | Review | "Top Down Gran Turismo" 🏎️🏁 #UltimateRacing2D #GameDev #IndieGames

Ultimate Racing 2D - On Nintendo Switch for around £9

BACK OF THE BOX QUOTE

"Top-Down Gran Turismo”

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United - Episode 23: "Cantona's Delight" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🚂 Transport Fever 2 | Ten Minute Taster | PC | Tinker With Train Tracks & Bus Routes 🚂 #TransportFever2

Transport Fever 2 on PC is my game of choice today as I take on the first 10 Minute Taster of 2020!

🎧 Venom Sabre Stereo Gaming Headset | Budget Headset | £24.99 | Great Build Quality & Good Sound 🎧 @VenomGamingUK

The Venom Sabre Stereo Gaming Headset is a great budget headset for £25 with great build quality, comfort and good sound. Take a look as I unbox and give you my thoughts. Venom Sabre Headset Link: https://venomuk.com/get/sabre-stereo-gaming-headset/

🎮 Nintendo Switch Lite Venom Charging Stand | Unboxing & Impressions 🎮 @VenomGamingUK

Today I'm taking a look at the VENOM Nintendo SWITCH LITE CHARGING STAND (TURQUOISE)

https://venomuk.com/get/switch-lite-charging-stand-turquoise

⚽️ Football Fortunes Board Game | 2019 | Unboxing | "Classic '80s Footballers Pack" ⚽️ @briancloughsff #BoardGames #TableTopGaming

The team at Football Fortunes have been kind enough to send me a copy of the Football Fortunes Board Game, Player Mats, Classic Footballers of the '80s and the accompanying app to try out. ⚽️

Here's my unboxing video before I have had the opportunity to play this legendary football management board game! ⚽️

🛠️🧰 Tools Up | PS4 | Review | "Overcooked With Houses?" 🛠️🧰 #GameDev #IndieGames

Tools up is a very co-op focused game which takes a lot of inspiration from the game; Overcooked but instead of you cooking meals for customers in wacky locations, you are redecorating houses in wacky locations.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle - Episode 22: "Unbelievable Uwe!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🐸🧙‍♂️ Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard "Pies & Party Hats!" 🧙‍♂️🐸 #GameDev #IndieGames

In Frog detective 2 you’re a Frog detective sent to nose around in the woods and attempt and solve a case involving an invisible wizard and welcome parade.

It’s an adventure mystery video game set in one location. You’ll use your magnifying glass and your notebook to solve the case and you’ll have heaps of fun doing it as the hilarious writing is the biggest draw in this game.

🏍️💨 Full Throttle Remastered Walkthrough - PART 6: "Corley Motors" [no commentary] 🏍️💨 #Retrogaming #Walkthrough #PointandClick

After years of promising myself that I would play Full Throttle, I have finally gotten around to playing and completing this legendary game

Come join me as I play Full Throttle Remastered on the PC

🏍️💨 Full Throttle Remastered Walkthrough - PART 7: "The Truth Of The Death" [no commentary] 🏍️💨 #Retrogaming #Walkthrough #PointandClick

After years of promising myself that I would play Full Throttle, I have finally gotten around to
playing and completing this legendary game.

Come join me as I play Full Throttle Remastered on the PC [no commentary].

🕯️⚔️ Rift Keeper | Review | PS4 | "Rogue-Rogue-Rogue Your Boat" ⚔️🕯️ #GameDev #RiftKeeper #IndieGames

"A Rogue-like title that is initially interesting and atmospheric but ends up feeling too unrewarding to really stick with."

Rift Keeper casts you as a mysterious, masked man doomed to travel through various portals in a bid to battle his way through multiple dungeons…which will take a while.

A game which has hints of Castlevania in its medieval-gothic-fantasy setting – as well as the initial starting weapon being a whip – the rogue-like mechanics, unfortunately, ground me down rather quickly.

🌍☄️🚀 The Outer Worlds | Impressions & Improvements List | "Oh Outer Worlds How I Love Thee" 🌍☄️🚀 #TheOuterWorlds @OuterWorlds

The Outer Worlds is almost my perfect video game but with a few little tweaks here and there would become the ultimate video game for me. Come listen to me whisper sweet nothings into Parvati's ear whilst I tinker with the Unreliable.

🕵️‍♂️ THE UNCLEARNESS | REVIEW | PC | "A Bad Case Of Google Translate" 🕵️‍♂️ #GameDev #IndieGames

You play the role of Stan Ingram which is a great name for the hero of a game that I feel will get a cult following for all the wrong reasons.

Stan is a private detective who is investigating a suicide case in a dystopian future which is set in 2080.

This game is hard to categorise but I’m going with Action Adventure for now until I’m proven otherwise.

The Steam listing goes with Action Indie Violent Nudity Adventure RPG!

🏆🎮 Rich's Game Of the Year 2019 "Rich's Raucous Roundup Of Gaming Greatness" 🏆🎮 #GameDev #Indie Games

Rich's Game Of The Year List 2019

As we enter the twilight of another year on this earth my thoughts drift towards Christmas holidays, time off work and attempting to write a Game Of The Year list for Games Freezer.