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The Company Man
It is inevitable that people reach a crossroads in life as they grow older; a time when their childhood world of toys, stuffed animals and videogames begins to transition into one of relationships, household bills and job responsibilities. Priorities become flipped, and spending your time having fun gives way to dedicating your time to your…
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Martha Is Dead
Entertainment of any medium where the title tells a story is always interesting to me. Netflix pulled me into their latest drama, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, simply because the plot was right there in the heading; there’s no faffing about with an obscure title like…
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Word Forward
I know we’re all hurtling through life but I think I’m destined to be an old man: I voluntarily rented an allotment to grow vegetables, I’m constantly looking at my pension, and I think that everyone who is younger than me is a whippersnapper. I’m at a point in my life where I wake up…
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Headland
Headland is an action-adventure title originally released as a mobile game at the end of 2020 and now available on the Nintendo Switch. You play a young boy who escapes into a daydream with his robot friend, only to have his robot’s imagination stolen (we’ll get to it) and with it his ability to manipulate…
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SNK Vs Capcom: Card Fighters’ Clash
Card games spring eternal when it comes to entertaining people – they existed hundreds of years before video games existed and even helped a little company called Nintendo cut their teeth before Mario was even a fever dream. As they continue to be enjoyed in innumerable guises around the world even today, it stands to…
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Monark
I’ve often found RPGs to be a fickle beast, either they plod along at a snail’s pace to such an extent that I lose the will to live well before the credits roll, or the developers throw a thousand ideas at the player, and hope that some elements stick. Only the greatest role-playing games have…
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Impious Pumpkins
“Now this is where it’s going to get a little bit gory, ok?” Gordon Ramsay’s Pumpkin Soup with Wild Mushrooms Impious Pumpkins by Note Missing Games bills itself as a ‘Real Time Tactics Game’ which I found to be closest to meaning that it’s a tower defence game. I have a soft spot for tower…
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Grapple Dog
As a member of gaming media you often track the progress of a lot of projects that you like the look of, hoping to one day see the finished article on your screen at home. Sadly, many of these titles never make it to release, with passion projects being killed off by other commitments, or…
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Gang Beasts
Have you ever taken two jelly babies out of the packet and smashed them against one-another, acting out a fight between the gelatinous warriors until the loser is sacrificed to eternal slumber in your belly as a punishment for his ineptitude? Of course you have, because it’s an entirely normal thing to do, and in…
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Cake Invaders
When I go to the movies, I’m not always going for an arthouse classic that’s been nominated for seventeen academy awards including ‘Best Screenplay Written by an Eccentric Nobleman from Guncestanshire’. Sometimes all I want to see is fast cars defying gravity with muscle men shouting off about whose family is better than the others.…
