🔎 Ten Minute Taster: Conarium "Join me as I Explore the Antarctic Base!" 🔎 #IndieGame #GameDev

"Join me as I Explore the Conarium Antarctic Base, study clues, unlock secrets and generally get freaked out!"

💙⚽ Why I Love Football Video Games "It all started in a Fish & Chip Shop"⚽💙 #Retrogaming

It all started with an arcade game in a Fish & Chip Shop in Enfield.

The shop was called the Sea Shell Fish Bar and the arcade cabinet was TEHKAN WORLD CUP

After witnessing someone complete the game whilst I was standing in the shop queue with my dad one Friday night I was never the same again. 

I was obsessed with football video games from that point onwards and more specifically I was obsessed with the quest to find the best football game out there.

📽️ 🎮 The Games Freezer YouTube Trailer 2019 🎮 📽️ #Retrogaming

🎮 It's time for the NEW Games Freezer YouTube Trailer 2019...

Retro Gaming, Indie Gaming and Britt's Flaming Gavel! 🎮

🦄 Review: Eternity: The Last Unicorn "A Game Out of Time" 🦄 #GameDev #IndieGame

🦄 Developer: Void Studios 🦄

Rating: Melting

Platform Reviewed: Playstation 4

A game that aims high but unfortunately ends up feeling like a cancelled late-gen PS2 title that was bought, polished and released two generations too late.

Void Studios’ first release, Eternity: The Last Unicorn (E: TLU) came across as sweeping and majestic in not only it’s trailers but also through various blurbs and descriptions (not helped by the mention of ‘Elderly Scrolls’ in the latest trailer, curiously re-named ‘Addy Scrolls’ in-game). Of course, this isn’t a game that can compare with Bethesda’s behemoth titles, coming as it does from a small, new studio.

✍️🎙️ Britt Interviews: Simon Meeks (The Secret Experiment) 🎙️✍️ @Simon_Meek @TheSecretExp @BrittRecluseuk

The Secret Experiment created one of my games of the year for 2018, the wonderfully twisted, abstract and also BAFTA-winning Beckett.

Ever since playing the game, I’ve kept an eye on the company and the man behind it, Simon Meek. Keen to see what he came up with next.

To my surprise, it wasn’t a video game at all but an experimental book entitled Marnie Wakes which consists of 32 cards to be read or ‘performed’ in any order.

I’d never come across anything like this with the exception of William S Burroughs own experimental ‘Cut and Paste’ style of literature which eventually gave us Naked Lunch, and so I was intrigued.

🐵 Review: Ape Out "Serious Monkey Business" 🐵 @devolverdigital #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Ape Out

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Publisher: Devolver Digital

Rating: Ice Cool

Although at first glance, there are comparisons to be drawn between Ape Out and Hotline Miami, within a few moments of gameplay, it’s clear to see that it isn’t really ‘apeing’ it at all, and it’s all the better for it.

📦🎮Quickshot Custom Triggers Unboxing (PS4) 📦🎮 @bionikgaming

🎮 "Let's talk about the PS4 Quickshot Custom Triggers and I try to demonstrate how to install them" 🎮

🍺🗡Review: Party Hard (SWITCH) "You start asking yourself why they can't keep the bloody noise down" 🗡🍺 @tinyBuild #IndieGame #GameDev

Parties are fun. I know it, you know it.

Rockstar-turned-agony uncle Andrew WK knows it. "When it's time to party, we will party hard," and all that.

However, as you turn into a late-thirties curmudgeon, like me, you notice that when other people are having parties and you're not, it grates a lot. 

You start asking yourself why they can't keep the bloody noise down, it's nearly eleven o'clock, and other things your eighteen-year-old self would weep at hearing.

👮🚨🍩 Review: Beat Cop (iOS) - "An 80's Pixel Fest Of Cops, Donuts and Laughs!" 👮🚨🍩 #IndieGame @11bitstudios @PxCrow

Beat Cop - iOS

11 Bit Studios

I’m stuck on my train on the way home on a Thursday evening, the train I’m on has stopped and hasn’t moved in the last 15 minutes. Then I remember that I have Beat Cop on my iPhone to play, so I whip it out and get stuck into this great pixel art 80’s police shows inspired video game.

🕹️ Doncaster is Ready To Host The UK’s Biggest Retro Gaming Market On Sunday March 3rd! 🕹️ #Retrogaming @ReplayEvents

"An air of nostalgia is set to sweep through Doncaster in March when the UK’s biggest 

retro video game market comes to town."

🐗 Review: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - PS4 - "Never a ‘boar’ing moment" 🐗 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Developer: The Bearded Ladies

Platform reviewed: Playstation 4

Rating: Ice Cool

Pre-fight stealth sections add a new angle to the turn-based strategy formula present in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (MYZ: RTE) and the story, whilst quite generic is rich with atmosphere and the unforgiving gameplay is just on the right side to keep you involved without it feeling hugely unfair.

🎧 Unboxing: Venom Nighthawk Chat Gaming Headset (PS4/PC/XBOX/SWITCH/MAC/MOBILE) 🎧

🎧 "This month I'm testing out the Nighthawk single cup gaming headset, ideal for a gamer on a budget who needs one ear on the action and the other on a potential crying baby or maybe the front doorbell!" 🎧

🏌 Episode 11: Battle Golfer - 1991 - SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive - Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun! ⛳ #Retrogaming

🏌Golf Video Games Don't Get Much Weirder Than Battle Golfer Yui on the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive!

Watch me struggle to comprehend this games weirdness! ⛳

🎧 Gioteck TX20 Retro Stereo Game & Go Headset - Unboxing 🎧 #Unboxing

🎧 "Check these funky retro Gioteck TX20 earphones out with me. Gioteck has got these awesome retro-styled earphones out right now and they're made for gaming. They are compatible with PS4, XBOX, SWITCH, PC, MAC, MOBILE and any other system with a standard microphone jack!" 🎧

🖥 PC Upgrades You Can Probably Afford 🖥

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If your PC is starting to feel a bit sluggish you may be thinking it is time to replace it. They are not cheap though, and a better option could be to look at ways of improving its performance.

PC upgrades could save you a lot of money and make your PC feel like a new machine.

🐒♚Ten Minute Taster: Monkey King: Master Of The Clouds [PS4] 🐒♚ #IndieGame @RetroismGames

♚🐒"A huge Japanese coin-op hit developed by HOT-B in 1989, the game was later renamed Cloud Master when released outside Japan on the Sega Master System. 

It subsequently appeared on NES, SFC, and the PC Engine. This upgraded release of the original arcade version includes HD ready elements by developer Starfish-SD, the company formed by the original HOT-B development team.

For the first time, live online leaderboards will add a worldwide competitive quality to the game not possible before."🐒♚

⚔️🗝️ Review: Iron Crypticle - "Total Carnage, I Love It! (SWITCH) 🗝️⚔️ #GameDev @TIKIPODltd @BrittRecluseuk

Game Title: Iron Crypticle

Developer: Confused Pelican

Platform reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Ice Cool

Playing like a four-player version of Super Smash TV with RPG elements, Iron Crypticle went down a storm at a recent multiplayer night at mine, the clever use of random generation and unlockable items to make each dungeon delve more varied as well as ramping up the replay value immensely.

Fun in single player but elevated above and beyond in the mighty form of local co-op, Iron Crypticle is a keeper.

⛳️🎮 Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 10: Arnold Palmer's Tournament Golf - 1989 🎮⛳️ #Retrogaming

⛳️🎮 "Play this game with a yardage chart and you might just become a World Champion" 🎮⛳️

🔎 Review: Call Of Cthulu "Not so much a call as a distant whimper" 🔎 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Call of Cthulhu

Developer: Cyanide

Platform Reviewed: Playstation 4

The main bulk of my knowledge of Cyanide as developers comes from their previous titles Of Orcs and Men and Styx: Master of Shadows, two titles that, whilst quite rigid in their gameplay, kept me involved until the end.

Whereas in terms of H.P Lovecraft in the gaming medium, the two main touchpoints for me are 2005’s Dark Corners of the Earth and the more recent Conarium, both tasty titles for different reasons.

This new title, Call of Cthulhu, whilst having some great moments, never felt like it got into a flow for me, too many moving parts and a leaping narrative removed my sense of immersion and also interest, ultimately making the latter half of the game feel like a trudge.

⚽ Championship Manager 93 Legends ⚽ #Retrogaming

Nostalgia is a powerful force of nature.

I just got back into playing Championship Manager 93 which is an extremely dangerous statement to be making upfront as I'm now a recovering CM Addict from the 90s.