🎮🤠 The Video Games Adventures of Monte McGnarly 🤠🎮 @McGnarlyG

A little while back I was approached by @McGnarlyG to take a look at his new book entitles "The Video Games Adventures of Monte McGnarly"

I'm so glad I took up his offer as this book takes you on a personal nostalgic journey of video games discovery through the use of rhyming verse.

👅 10 New Video Game Trailers To Drool Over 👅 #IndieGames #GameDev

With so many awesome Trailers over the last week or so I thought I would pull together 10 Video Games that I am truly excited about at the moment!

It seems like the Indie Scene has just set the industry alight again with some awesome Indie ports to the Nintendo Switch and also just some plain old great looking video games coming to ALL consoles.

I know Trailers don't tell the whole story but based on these trailers alone I'm just going to go along with the hype train for a while until we get our hands on some of these marvellous looking specimens!

Which of these 10 gets YOU most excited to play? 👅

🎮😍 The Retro Bit SEGA Controllers Look Awesome! 😍🎮 @RetroBitGaming #Retrogaming #SEGA

Retro-Bit® has announced their line up of officially-licensed SEGA controllers that will be available spring 2019. 

The line-up includes Sega Genesis®, Mega Drive and Sega Saturn® controllers with original and USB®-ports

🕹️ PLAY EXPO RETURNS TO MANCHESTER THIS MAY! 🕹️ #RetroGaming @ReplayEvents

It's the North Of England's Biggest Videogames Expo and it's coming back to Manchester Central Exhibition Centre on May 4th and 5th 2019!

🥋The Messenger - PS4 - "A game that draws inspiration from Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi, Shovel Knight and Last Ninja"

🉐🥋⚔️ A game that draws inspiration from Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi, Shovel Knight and 

Last Ninja has got to be good right?! 🥋⚔️🉐

🍸 Review: Red Strings Club "Make Mine Strong, Sour and Soul-Searching, Barkeep" 🍹 @Deconstructeam #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: The Red Strings Club

Developer: Deconstructeam

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: Ice Cool

A cyberpunk adventure set mostly inside a bar where the main draw is an expertly told story that makes the player question their own motivations and values with some cocktail-making and industrial espionage thrown in?

Sign me up.

🔍 Review: Rainswept "A Breezy, Narrative Driven Adventure" 🔎 @Rainswept_Game #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Rainswept

Developer: Frostwood Interactive

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

I’ve always enjoyed playing a solid graphic adventure that’s driven by narrative and doesn’t rely on pop culture references or obscure puzzles to move forwards, and Rainswept is just that. By no means perfect, it does, however, take an approach that, whilst dipping into the sentimental, talks about heavy topics with a light touch.

🕹️ Crash and Sinclair User Magazines Tapes & Posters eBay Unboxing 🕹️ #Retrogaming #ZXSpectrum

🕹️📦📼 "I got my hands on an eBay lot of Crash and Sinclair User Magazine Ads, Tips Pages and Cover Tapes so I thought I'd unbox them just for you and go through what I've got, enjoy!" 🕹️📦📼

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👊⚔️ From the Arctic Archives: Slashers The Power Battle "Dead Online But Still Worth A Bash Offline" 👊⚔️ #GameDev

Due to the number of games we receive for coverage in the Games Freezer, it’s sadly inevitable that some slip through the glaciers.

In the Arctic Archive feature, we re-visit titles not covered upon their initial release to see how they fare down the line.

Slashers: The Power Battle

Price: £5.19

Status: Early Access

There’s always an oddly sad shelf life to online games, especially ones that don’t sell well upon their initial release. If a game is pretty much purely online-only and the fanbase just isn’t there for whatever reason, games become obsolete sometimes weeks and even days after launch.

🤜💥🤛 Every Single Street Fighter Player Select screen - 1987 to 2018 🤜💥🤛 #StreetFighter

"Here is every Street Fighter Player Select Screen From Every Fighting Video Game That Features Any Street Fighter Characters"

⏬⏬ Have I missed any? ⏬⏬

Let me know in the comments below...

🕹️ Britt's Amusement Arcade Memories Amidst A Flooded Flat - Video Games Memories 🕹️ #RetroGaming #Arcade

There is an undeniable connection for a lot of people to some form of gaming, no matter how distant or seemingly inconsequential.

A moment that I found really funny (in hindsight) was a few years ago in my old flat, my girlfriend woke me up at three in the morning because the bathroom ceiling was gushing with water (pinch me) and so I pegged it upstairs to wake up my upstairs neighbour (a guy in his thirties) who immediately ran down to my flat to see the damage. We headed into my living room to grab a load of towels to stem the flow, all in a complete frenzy due to the level of water coming through.

Amidst all of this, as we were running back to the bathroom, he stopped and pointed at something on display in our living room and said, “Is that Scramble? Wow, I had that when I was a kid, haven’t seen it in years!”.

Naturally, I walked over to him and filled him in on the finer points of our gaming collection until my girlfriend walked in and said, incredulously. “Umm….can you talk about games after we’ve stopped our bathroom flooding?”

Obviously, I split up with her on the spot.

👾 Steve @GAMETelford Talks To Us About Dressing In Lycra, Pong Machines & Chip Buttys - Video Games Memories 👾 #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Within the gaming community, there are certain people that really stand out as ambassadors for the video games medium and I think today we are lucky enough to have someone with us who gets the idea that video games are all about having fun. 

Our guest today runs the amazing @GAMETelford  Twitter account and manages to combine that sense of fun whilst also doing a day job at GAME in Telford.

The Twitter account is one of my favourite accounts on Twitter and is always guaranteed to raise a smile due to the amazingly talented Steve acting out skits on a weekly basis. 

The amount of effort that must go into the account is astounding and I am really looking forward to today's Video Games Memories with Steve so as we can see what makes the great man tick...

Let's get started with a few questions to provoke the nostalgia gland in Steve's video games brain...

🏌Episode 12: Top Pro Golf 2 - 1993 - SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive "Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun!"🏌 #Retrogaming #SEGA

🏌"I've made it to Episode 12 and the truth is that Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun!

It's Top Pro Golf 2 on the SEGA Genesis and it's fun if you can putt..."

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🎮👾 Review: 8-Bit Armies & 8-Bit Hordes “Attack the Blocks” 👾🎮 #IndieGame

Developer: Petroglyph Games

Rating: Melting

Platform Reviewed: Playstation 4

It was a simpler time. But a frustrating one. Before the internet ushered in a glorious era of cat memes, trolling and post-pub online shopping sprees, everything happened at a slower pace. 

🔎 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.