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16/11/2020

🌞🏚️ Sunshine Manor Prologue | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "8 Bit Halloween" 🌞🏚️ @Fossil_Games #IndieGames #GameDev

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Sunshine Manor is a horror adventure game that's inspired by the famous horror movies of the 1980s. 

You play as Ada whose night of trick or treating turns into a night of terror when she becomes trapped inside the old Aitken Manor. 

Use Ada's latent psychic powers to battle all kinds of fiendish demons, solve puzzles and maybe even defeat the omnipresent Shadow Man….who is watching your every move! 


15/11/2020

🕷️ Scourgebringer | Switch Review by Dr Congo Fighting | "Get ready to find out a bit about a hard but rewarding rogue-lite platformer" 🕷️ @FlyingOakGames #IndieGames #GameDev

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Pull up a seat, charge your joy-cons, and get ready to find out a bit about a hard but rewarding rogue-lite platformer.

14/11/2020

🚀 PACER | Review | PS4 | "The year is 2075. I am 97 and high octane, anti-gravity, full combat motorsport is all the rage" 🚀 @R8Games #IndieGames #GameDev @showmemagic

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The year is 2075. I am 97 and high octane, anti-gravity, full combat motorsport is all the rage and The Pacer World Championship is where it’s at!  

Pacer is clearly inspired by its successful predecessor WipEout. But does this play homage or does it do what Weekend at Bernie’s 2 did to Weekend at Bernie’s? Let us find out… 

🕹️ @Lord_Arse Says: Competition Pro 5000. The best joystick ever made. Or do you disagree? What's your favourite joystick? 🕹️ #RetroGaming #Joystick

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13/11/2020

🏎️💥🏎️ Accident | EARLY ACCESS | Review | PC | "It’s nice to be making situations safer and administering first aid." 🏎️💥🏎️ @PixelHunted @games_glob #IndieGames #GameDev

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You’re pootling down the road and realise something is wrong up ahead. There’s been an accident: cars turned into jagged balls of metal and glass, fuel dripping ominously onto the asphalt, the pained groans of those cut to ribbons… and ominous silences from other vehicles. 

Nobody else is around - time to step up the plate and save some lives. 

But how? Where do you even begin?

12/11/2020

💣 My 13 Favourite Video Games Weapons 💣 #Retrogaming

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A few days ago I decided to compile a list of my personal favourite video games weapons from over the years. 

These are the weapons that have stuck with me over the course of decades of gaming. 

They either have a special place in my heart or they are just damned cool.

Either way I've come up with 13 beauties, so let me know what your favourites are...

11/11/2020

♌️♈️♋️♓️♊️ This is the Zodiac Speaking | Review | PS4 | "In short, I was in the zone" ♌️♈️♋️♓️♊️ #zodiacthegame @zodiac_the_game #IndieGames #GameDev

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Game Title: This is the Zodiac Speaking

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: 5/10

A cool idea based on real-life crimes marred by esoteric implementation and some relatively serious technical issues.

In a happy coincidence, I had watched David Fincher’s 2007 slow-burn thriller Zodiac only weeks before receiving This is the Zodiac Speaking for review and, having a close friend harbouring dark obsessions with serial murderers, I was already acquainted with the heinous, unsolved crimes that plagued California in the ‘70s. 

In short, I was in the zone.

10/11/2020

⚽️ Players Worth The Investment In FIFA 21 ⚽️

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FIFA is a gaming series which has been around since 1993 and every year since has brought out a new edition improving graphics, mechanics, and updating teams. 


FIFA 21 is the latest addition to this legendary roster - bringing Volta Football back with improvements after FIFA 20, and also bringing with it Ultimate team once again that features 100 iconic players. 

✈️ Airplane Mode | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Join Me On A Flight To Nowhere!" ✈️ @hosoji #GameDev #IndieGame

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Airplane Mode is a game where you play as a window seat passenger for the real-time duration of a long-haul commercial flight across the Atlantic.

Airplane Mode's gameplay explores the airline travel experience down to every last detail—from the design of your seat and the seatback in front of you to the contents of your carry-on bag and smartphone hard drive to the behaviours of cabin crew and other passengers.

The circumstances of your flight will change every time you play. Simply put, Airplane Mode is the most realistic flight simulation ever created. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

09/11/2020

🥏 Disc Room | PC | Ten minute Taster | "7 Deadly Discs!" 🥏 @devolverdigital #GameDev IndieGame

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Are you ready to get sliced in half? 

In Disc Room The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. 

Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229580/Disc_Room/

08/11/2020

🕵️ Gamedec | Preview | ‘cyberpunk’, ‘combat-free’ ‘isometric’ 🕵️ @GamedecTheGame #IndieGames #GameDev

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Anshar Studios’ Gamedec was completely unknown to me until I stumbled across it on a press release. After reading briefly about it, some keywords stood out; ‘cyberpunk’, ‘combat-free’ ‘isometric’ all terms that ruffle my hair and feed me good bourbon.

07/11/2020

🚀 Elite Dangerous Horizons | Ten Minute Taster | PC | My Space Driving Test 🚀

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Elite Dangerous is continually evolving, adding new features, narrative and in-game content with each new season. Elite Dangerous is in ongoing development, with a number of free and premium game updates available to expand the core Elite Dangerous experience.


🚀 Space Crew | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "CHARGE THE HYPER DRIVE!" 🚀 @CurveDigital #GameDev #IndieGames

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Space Crew is the brand new strategic simulation game, boldly taking you where no one has gone before!

06/11/2020

💥 Necromunda: Underhive Wars | Review | PS4 | "The World is A Dark Place" 💥 @NecromundaUW #IndieGames #GameDev

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The world is a dark place.  As winter creeps in (the clocks have just gone back meaning it’s pitch black by 2pm), I am drawn to darker games. No Animal Crossing escapism for me. No, it’s dungeon crawling and shadowy places all the way. And you get plenty of that in Rogue Factor’s Necromunda: Underhive Wars. 

05/11/2020

☁️ Cloudpunk | Review | PS4 | "Never before have I been so sad whilst holding a controller" ☁️ @ionlands #IndieGames #GameDev

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Developer: ION Lands

Platform Reviewed: PS4 

Rating:  5/10 (MELTING)

This is not the review I wanted to write. 

Upon booting up Cloudpunk, ION Lands’ voxel-tastic cyberpunk delivery simulator, despite some clear technical issues, I was HOOKED. 

Sadly, eight hours into the game, the issues won out and I was forced to give up entirely. I can genuinely say that this would have featured in my end of year selection but in its current state, it’s a hard one to recommend and instead currently stands as one of the most infuriating gaming moments of the year for me.

04/11/2020

🕶️🎰 VR and How it is Impacting Online Slots 🎰🕶️

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Over the years the online slot industry has proven itself to be incredibly adept at using new technology to make its games even more popular amongst the gamblers of the world, and it has got to the point where the online slot industry dwarfs any other part of the overall gambling market in 2020. There are far more people gambling online, for example, and the vast majority of those are doing so on the range of excellent modern online slots available today. 

Playing slots like Centurion by Inspired Gaming can make it seem as though the market has reached the end of its development, as these games really are just that good. But here’s the thing: the slots industry has never been one to sit still, and ever since Charles D. Fey’s day it has constantly sought to be as innovative as possible. The most exciting new development in the field has got to be VR in regard to online slots, a new piece of technology that could flip the entire industry on its head. But what is VR, and how is it impacting online slots at www.wizardslots.com? Read ahead to find out! 

🎮 Gioteck Controllers Review| WX-4 and JC-20 🎮 @GioteckArmy

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Gioteck WX-4 Wired (2.5m cable) / Wireless & JC-20 

Gaming controllers are expensive (I look at YOU Nintendo Joy-Cons) and it’s always good to have a solid replacement available at a decent price. 

Gioteck’s WX-4 range caters for PC, PS3 and Switch whilst the JC-20’s are their version of the Nintendo Joy-Cons. 

Here, I’ll be taking a look at how they rate as replacements for the inevitable Joy-Con issues or simply an addition to your accessory collection for multiplayer action.

03/11/2020

🚀 Jets N Guns 2 | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A Tooled-Up Shooter That Shines in Co-Op" 🚀 @rakeingrass #IndieGames #GameDev

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Game Title: Jets N Guns 2

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: 9/10 (ICE COOL)

Jets N Guns 2 Developer Rake In Grass has delivered unto us one of the finest side-scrolling shooters ever made.

*sigh* I suppose I’d better say more.

02/11/2020

🕵️ Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A moustache-twirling fun adventure" 🕵️ @Microids_off #IndieGames #GameDev

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Game Title: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Originally released on PC in 2016 and now ported to Switch, the ABC Murders are based on the book of the same name and follows the plot relatively closely, with some elements removed for pacing purposes.

Set in England during 1935, the game sees the Belgian detective in his London home with a close associate, Hastings. Receiving a mysterious letter from someone identifying themselves as ‘A.B.C’, Poirot heads to Andover to find out more about these alphabetical atrocities.

01/11/2020

🏝️💥 Game Title: Crysis Remastered | Review | PS4 | "A seminal title that still holds up" 💥🏝️ @Crysis #CrysisRemastered

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Game Title: Crysis Remastered

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Although I didn’t play much Crysis when it came out (due to a mix of always having under-powered PCs and a personal gaming void during 2007-2009) I’m acutely aware of the impact that it had and so I leapt at the chance to cover it, in remastered form.