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10/11/2017

☆ Review: Project Remedium - "Ever wondered what it would feel like to be an antibiotic?" ☆ #GameDev #IndieGame

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Project Remedium is a first-person video game shooter that is developed by Atomic Jelly and published by Movie Games.


Atomic Jelly is games development studio from Poland, which was founded in 2016. Movie Games SA is a Polish company founded in 2015 by Aleksy Uchanski

09/11/2017

☆ Video Game Hardware Timelines - Nintendo: 1899 to 2017 ☆ #Retrogaming

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The grand old lady of video games is Nintendo and the history of Nintendo is something special in all gamers hearts.

This timeline shows Nintendo starting all that way back in 1899 with playing cards right up until today with their formiddable Switch console.

08/11/2017

☆ Review: The Norwood Suite "A Hotel that would have mixed reviews on TripAdvisor" ☆ #IndieGame #GameDev

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When I first read about The Norwood Suite video game, the premise of a mystery protagonist arriving at a secluded hotel to solve a mystery had more than a touch of ‘The 7th Guest’ about it.

The Norwood Suite is light years away from the 90’s Trilobyte classic (and its dodgy sequel) in a tonal sense but has a lighthearted style all of its own.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the gameplay to back up its audio and visual aesthetic.

07/11/2017

☆ The Mini Centipede Arcade Machine Has Officially Broken The Internet! ☆ #Arcade #Retrogaming

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Would you like to own a miniature replica of one of the most iconic arcade video games of all time?

This Kickstarter Campaign Has Broke The Internet!

06/11/2017

☆ The 10 Best Fighting Video Games Ever ☆ #Retrogaming #Arcade

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"Round 1 FIGHT!"

"Ten of the greatest fighting games ever assembled in one place 
with Music By Malabaster"

(Track: Steak Pie Please)

05/11/2017

☆ "The Super Nintendo Mini Has A Super Book To Go With It" ☆ @primagames #SNESMini #SNESClassic #SNES

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Those lovely people at Prima Games are constantly spoiling gamers with their awesome array of game guides and console accompaniment books.

When the NES Classic came out Prima lavished gamers with a nostalgic masterpiece which looked back at the NES Classic games with love and attention to detail. 

That book is a must in your collection if you can get your hands on one do it now! www.amazon.com

Now the SNES Classic has landed and we’re all going Super Nintendo Super Crazy the Prima Games guys have followed up the NES book with an awesome SNES book.

04/11/2017

☆ Review: Echo "A beautiful game marred by repetition" ☆ #GameDev

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Echo is a new third-person stealth-adventure video game that from the studio Ultra Ultra, a team of developers who are based in Copenhagen and formed from ex-staff of IO Interactive (Hitman series).

03/11/2017

☆ Sine Mora Ex - Ten Minute Taster - PS4 ☆ #GameDev

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"This is a beautiful looking shoot em up, so come join me as I take it for a test drive and uncover an awesome video game on the PS4!"

02/11/2017

☆ Video Game Hardware Timelines - SEGA: 1983 to 1998 ☆ #Retrogaming

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(YouTube video by TheGamerFromMars)

When you begin to dig into the SEGA console timeline you realise that the amount of consoles and add ons was an absolute mess! 

You have to give it to SEGA though, they went out with a massive bang of consoles and add ons. 

In order to try and make sense of it all I decided to write it all down and then create an illustarted timeline to show you all.

So here it is, hopefully you all enjoy!

01/11/2017

☆ Review: The Solus Project "Going Deeper Underground" ☆ #GameDev

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The Solus Project - PS4

As I tread carefully through a particularly claustrophobic cave system I begin to fear that I may become dehydrated any time soon as I can see my hydration levels drop. 

I then come across an opening area of the system and I breathe an audible sigh of relief as I spot the trickling water coming from the ceiling cracks. 

I hastily make a bee line for the water and take the time to refill my water bottle just in case I get caught short again on my next branch of exploration.

This is a typical spell of game-play in The Solus Project and it's the thing that keeps me playing to find out what is going on and how my character will fare at the end of this mission to report back my status to the mission control.

31/10/2017

☆ Review: The Darkside Detective "Welcome to the dark side… bring your kids!" ☆ #GameDev #IndieGame

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The Darkside Detective is a 2D point and click adventure video game from developers Spooky Doorway (a very apt name for the Halloween season) that follows the adventures of Twin Lakes’ finest supernatural police squad, Francis McQueen and his sidekick Dooley.

It is a charming, snappy and surprisingly funny selection of episodes (the game comes with all six episodes included) that I heartily recommend for all the family.

The game consists of six ‘micro-adventures’ (the developers’ own words) that make up case files for the protagonist, Francis McQueen.

☆ 10 Scary Video Games To Play This halloween ☆ #Retrogaming

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"The creepiest video games are the ones that create an atmosphere of foreboding and here are 10 of the best out there for you to play this Halloween"

30/10/2017

☆ The Gardens Between Trailer ☆ #PS4

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"Sony just announced at Paris Games Week that The Gardens Between, the adventure puzzle game by The Voxel Agents, is coming to PlayStation 4 in Q3 2018. 

It will launch simultaneously on Windows and Mac"

☆ "The Night Football Fun Came Home To Playstation" ☆ #Retrogaming

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Back in the time before FIFA ruled the soccer video games landscape PES was the game of choice.

The fun that the game brought me is incomparable to the sterile relationship I have with the current crop of FIFA reproductions we get handed every year.


I have said it before and it's most definitely true, the fun of football games has been drained out of the genre and replaced with a desire from developers to create a realistic as possible product.


The problem with this is that realism brings boring to the table. The fact is that 80% of real football matches are actually tactical boredom. 


Just look at the recent Liverpool vs Man Utd match to see how an overhyped product generally fails to deliver on the media frenzy from Sky and various media sources.

Now, why the heck would you want to spend your time playing a football game that makes it as hard to score in a game as it is in real life?


It's just not fun, is it?

29/10/2017

☆ Would YOU Back A Mean Machines Kickstarter Campaign? ☆ @JazRignall #Retrogaming

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Who Here Would Love To See A NEW One Off Special Issue Of Mean Machines Magazine?

Well ever since the special edition of Super Play 48 came out with Retro Gamer Magazine I have dreamed of a Mean Machines equivalent.

Julian "Jaz" Rignall has commented on Twitter that he would be interested in doing it if only he could step round the EMAP Copyright stuff.

So just for fun I have mocked up a Mean Machines Kickstarter....

Would YOU Back It?

28/10/2017

☆ Review: Fantasy Strike "Are You Ready For The 'Yomi Counter'?" ☆ #GameDev

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Fantasy Strike - PC
I like to think that it doesn’t matter whether I’m good at fighting video games or not, as long as I have fun; right? 

Some of the people I play against in Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat make that really hard to buy into though, and then there is my wife, who still beats me at Tekken

I love playing the genre though, trying new systems, figuring out styles, learning how different fighters work, but have never mastered the finer techniques. 

The first time my college roommate attempted to explain dash cancelling to me I honestly thought my brain was going to implode. 

I have gotten way better over the years, even if I still lose a lot and have to take pride in my own style and flashy alternate costumes, but along has come a game that I think many more will appreciate. 

27/10/2017

☆ Review: Riskers "a game that fades into the shadows of its influences" ☆ #GameDev #IndieGame

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Riskers - PC

I really wanted to like Riskers, all of the ingredients were here for a great game, but sadly it spreads itself too thin to be memorable.

The story that drives Riskers is that you play a garbage collector who finds a briefcase filled with cash, merely days later when you arrive home, you find your brother killed and head off to chase down the assailants.

26/10/2017

☆ New Gaming Ghoulishness To Be Released For The NES! - "Time To Creep It Real!" ☆ #Retrogaming #NES

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Those cool cats at Mega Cat Studios just listed some awesome new NES video games for sale!
 
 
You just gotta check out this NES awesomeness and get yourself in the Halloween mood with some retrogaming ghoulishness!

☆ Did You Know That Nick Frost Plays A Character In "Augmented Empire" ? ☆ #GameDev

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Coatsink’s cyberpunk RPG Augmented Empire launched in July, exclusive to Samsung Gear VR and now Coatsink have released a mini-documentary featuring the cast which includes the legendary Nick Frost!


Take a peek at it now and let us know what you think...

"Stay Frosty!"
 

☆ Review: West of Loathing "A game that will ‘stick’ with me for a long time" ☆ #IndieGame #GameDev

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West Of Loathing - PC

I’m not going to sugar-coat it, West of Loathing is my single-player game of the year.

I have never played any of Asymmetric Publications’ previous games but I will absolutely be front of the queue for their next release. 

West of Loathing is a joyous, hilarious and occasionally touching gem of a game that conjured up feelings that I haven’t had whilst playing a game since The Secret of Monkey Island.