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17/04/2019

⚔️🧙‍♂️Review: Tangledeep (Nintendo Switch) "An Experience that Really Rewards Time and Effort" 🧙‍♂️⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGame

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Game Title: Tangledeep

Format: Nintendo Switch

I've had my eye on Tangledeep for a while. 

A roguelike dungeon crawler with 16-bit Secret of Mana-style graphics? 

Sign me up.

16/04/2019

🚋 NEXT STOP RAINBOW ROAD! 🚋 #RetroGaming @ReplayEvents

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IN THE BUILD UP TO PLAY EXPO MANCHESTER MARIO, LUIGI AND FRIENDS ARE WREAKING HAVOC RENAMING MANCHESTER'S METROLINK STOPS!

🎙️ Britt Interviews: George 'Fatman' Sanger 🎙️ @TheMightyFatMan @BrittRecluseuk

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George Alistair Sanger also known as "The Fat Man", is an American musician who has composed music for computer and video games, beginning in 1983. 

Some of George's best-known works include The 7th Guest, Wing Commander, Maniac Mansion, Loom and Zombies Ate My Neighbors. 

As you can see from George's Moby Games profile George has worked on a LOT of awesome games www.mobygames.com 

Here's a transcript of Britt's recent interview with the amazing George 'Fatman' Sanger

15/04/2019

🕵️‍♀️🔎 Interview with Aaron Conners, Author of The Tex Murphy Novels and Screenplays 🕵️‍♀️🔎 @aaronconners @BrittRecluseuk

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After recently reading The Pandora Directive (and thoroughly enjoying it) as well as re-playing The Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, I contacted Aaron Conners to get an insight on his involvement with gaming’s favourite down-and-out detective.

Aaron was more than happy to respond and I’m thankful that he took the time out, I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did.

12/04/2019

🤺Slay With Style: Killing Gets Creative In New Trailer For Beautifully Brutal God’s Trigger🤺 #GameDev #IndieGame

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"Like the Da Vinci of death, Techland Publishing has unleashed a new gameplay trailer demonstrating the fine art of killing in God’s Trigger, a brutal, fast-paced, top-down shooter, in which players can use supernatural powers to cause spectacular mayhem in a quest to stop the Apocalypse."
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11/04/2019

⚔️ Final Fantasy VII Devs Reveal The Secrets Behind The Legendary Video Game ⚔️ #GameDev #FinalFantasyVII

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Here's a really interesting video from Square Enix that covers the development stories from making FINAL FANTASY VII...

🕹️📙 Video Game Novelisation – The 7th Guest and Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive 📙 🕹️

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‘The 7Th Guest: A Novel ‘ by Matthew J Costello & Craig Shaw Gardner
‘The Pandora Directive (A Tex Murphy Novel )’ by Aaron Conners
It dawned on me a few weeks ago that I had never read a novelisation of a video game. The closest thing I can think of was how I voraciously inhaled Andrzej Sapkowski’s ‘The Witcher’ series, which whilst having a strong connection to the video game series I initially played (the games are based on the novels), are a separate canonical entity. With this in mind, I picked up a few books that were novelisations of games I had previously enjoyed playing and the first ones I spotted at a saucy price were the books mentioned in the title of this article.

10/04/2019

🕹️🎮🔮 Past, Present, Future: Gaming Consoles 🕹️🎮🔮

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The gaming world is one that moves incredibly quickly. What is all the rage today will soon fall from prominence, replaced by new, exciting developments; while the present day remains important, with gaming, there always seem to be one foot that is placed firmly in the future.


The above is true of almost all aspects of gaming but is perhaps most strongly felt when it comes to consoles. As a read through eight generations of gaming history quickly makes clear, consoles have come a long way in a relatively short space of time. If you’re in your 20s or 30s now, the chances are that the consoles you used as a teenager are now considered to be almost-obsolete, and the console features you now see as basic requirements would once have been innovative and exciting. Change happens; consoles evolve, and the world of gaming keeps turning - so it’s worth taking a moment to think about where consoles might go next.

🎮📧 The SEGA Megadrive Mini "A Letter From An Old Friend" 📧🎮 #Retrogaming #SEGA

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A Letter From The SEGA Mega Drive Mini...

09/04/2019

⚔️ Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel "Slower Than Sieving Bricks" ⚔️ #GameDev

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Developer: Nihon Falcom

Platform Reviewed: PlayStation 4

Rating: Melting

I’ll preface this review by stating that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel isn’t a bad game, there is a lot to like about it but from a personal perspective, it just feels so safe and generic that it’s tough to recommend to anyone but serious lovers of the JRPG genre and so I felt that I couldn’t quite give it the ‘Ice Cool’ rating.

08/04/2019

😎 How VR Is Changing Gaming 😎

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Driving Simulators

It’s no surprise to anyone who is paying attention that the world of Virtual Reality (VR) should be affecting the world of gaming so much.

But the amount that it is doing so, and the ways in which it is doing so, might come as a surprise to some people.

The truth is that this is clearly the next wave in gaming, and we can expect more and more platforms to start taking on board increasing amounts of VR components over the next few years.

It’s always hard to predict what the world of gaming will look like in ten years’ time, but at the moment we can probably say with some degree of confidence that it will be dominated by VR to some degree.

That doesn’t mean that there won’t be other gamer types out there, but VR looks set to be the way ahead for now. Let’s look at some current examples of where VR is being used in the world of gaming already.

01/04/2019

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

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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.

29/03/2019

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

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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? 👅

28/03/2019

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

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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

27/03/2019

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

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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!

26/03/2019

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

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🉐🥋⚔️ A game that draws inspiration from Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi, Shovel Knight and 
Last Ninja has got to be good right?! 🥋⚔️🉐

25/03/2019

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

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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.

22/03/2019

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

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Game Title: Rainswept
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.

21/03/2019

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

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🕹️📦📼 "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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20/03/2019

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

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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.
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.

19/03/2019

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

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"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...

18/03/2019

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

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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.

15/03/2019

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

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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...

14/03/2019

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

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🏌"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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13/03/2019

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

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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. 

12/03/2019

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

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

11/03/2019

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

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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.

08/03/2019

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

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

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

07/03/2019

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

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🦄 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.

06/03/2019

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

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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.

05/03/2019

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

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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.

04/03/2019

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

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

01/03/2019

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

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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.

28/02/2019

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

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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.

27/02/2019

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

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"An air of nostalgia is set to sweep through Doncaster in March when the UK’s biggest 
retro video game market comes to town."

26/02/2019

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

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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.

25/02/2019

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

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🎧 "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!" 🎧

22/02/2019

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

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🏌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! ⛳

21/02/2019

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

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🎧 "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!" 🎧

20/02/2019

🖥 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

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♚🐒"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."🐒

19/02/2019

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

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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.