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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 2 – 02/01/2022 – 398 Days 19 Hours 07 Minutes and 29 Seconds to go…
“I dreamed about my death. First I heard a scream, and then I fell from a great height.” The Shade Well, that’s certainly a point to start on. I’m suddenly rather thankful I didn’t ask him to jump down to the [crystal mine]… I decided to draw another sketch before I left for the evening,…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 1: Part 2 – 399 Days 21 Hours 59 Minutes and 43 Seconds to go…
Returning to the game, I found the Shade curled up on the floor asleep; he woke up and mumbled about dreaming of an endless hall with white pillars which sounds both frightening and incredible. I wandered around in the depths for a while until I came to another dead end. I could see that there…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 1: Part 1 – 01/01/2022 – 400 Days to go…
(Alright, before you start – Day 1 turned into a pretty long session of exploration and therefore a bit of a mammoth write-up! 😅 I’m hoping to limit my playtime going forward to keep things more manageable.) Okay, so here we go! Firing up the game you get straight into it – the Mountain King…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough 2022
I’ve always been a fan of weird and wonderful gaming experiences, and when I stumbled upon The Longing whilst writing up an article last year, my interest was thoroughly piqued. I was kindly gifted an Switch eShop card for Christmas, so I finally decided to pick up this quirky title and give it a go. For those…
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Black Friday Indie Bundle Giveaway
With Steam’s Black Friday discounts in full swing, we’ve scoured the sale and bundled together five brilliant games into one nice bundle and we’re giving them away to one lucky winner! We’re giving away a Steam code for all of the following five indie games: Hollow Knight Stardew Valley Little Nightmares Binding of Isaac Guacamelee!…
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VGamingLate: Halo Combat Evolved
Created by Bungie, and stuck in development hell for nearly 7 years, Halo: Combat Evolved released to critical acclaim as an Xbox launch title in 2001 (for us Europeans, it released in 2002, but that’s by the by), and set a number of standards that are seen in console shooters to this very day. Even…
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Our Nintendo Switch Online: Expansion Pack Wish Lists
In the latest Nintendo Direct, the Big N announced that there will be an ‘Expansion Pack’ to the Nintendo Switch Online services, which will introduce a plethora of N64 and Mega Drive games to the service. While we know about the first wave of games launching at the end of October, it left us wondering…
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Metroid – The Top Ten Coolest Power-Ups
Like seemingly all sci-fi franchises with an armoured protagonist, Metroid is littered with some truly awesome upgrades to our heroines power suit and weaponry, and has a myriad of gadgets that makes every single entry unique and fun to play. We’ve run through the entire franchise back-catalogue and chosen the top ten coolest power-ups that…
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Gamescom 2021
With everything going on in the world, the annual gamescom convention is going all digital this year. Taking place between Wed, 25 Aug 2021 – Fri, 27 Aug 2021, there will be a lot of news from the world of video games coming in thick and fast. We’re rounding up all of the news, trailers…
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Thinking of Flute Boy
Even as a child, I was a goofy romantic with a penchant for storytelling. I remember I would forever be conjuring up fantastic scenarios, fictional allies and terrible enemies; babbling on to myself excitedly as I dashed around with a toy sword or laser gun, swooshing and pew-pew-pewing to my heart’s content. No universe was left unvisited. As I…
