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ININ Games Opens Preorders For The 40 Game Strong Taito EGRET II Mini Arcade
There’s a growing trend of arcade cabinets being minuturised for use in the home, and today prolific arcade aficionados, ININ Games, have opened up preorders for their Taito EGRET II Mini console. Rather than focusing on one specific game, it comes preloaded with forty titles, including big hitters like Bubble Bobble and Space Invaders. Let’s
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The Lightbringer
Puzzle-Platformers have been a staple genre of video-games since the first cartridges crawled out of the primordial ooze, and Rock Square Thunder’s 2021 offering, The Lightbringer, seems on the surface to be a solid example of the genre. Playing through its relatively short run time, however, left me distinctly aware of the evolution and innovation
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Microsoft Agrees To Buy Activision Blizzard
In a deal worth an eye watering $68.7 billion, Microsoft have negotiated a full take over of Activision Blizzard in an effort to bolster the number of video game studios in it’s portfolio. This is Microsoft’s biggest acquisition, $40 billion more than they paid for Linkedin and nearly 10 times the amount they splurged for
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 17 – 17/01/22 – 353 Days, 4 Hours, 39 Minutes and 26 Seconds to go…
Day 17 was a quiet day, relative to some of the exciting discoveries of Days 15 and 16, but I have no doubt that more intriguing times are just on the horizon. It might be the first day since I started playing The Longing when I can honestly say that I have really very little
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Co-Op Mode Is Coming To Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
NIS America have announced that Co-Op mode is coming to the PC version of RPG Ys IX: Monstrum Nox from today. To show off the new features of how the team up works, we have the trailer explaining all of the features. NIS have said this is an experiemental build which is why it’s only
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 16 – 16/01/22 – 360 Days, 1 Hour, 1 Minute and 33 Seconds to go…
While I had an accidentally extended session with Monty yesterday, it was today when I arguably made more progress, with an awful lot going on in just a short time. While I was keen to do more digging at home, I also wanted to start patrolling the wider kingdom in search of one more piece
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Not content with blowing the roof off the internet by announcing a remake of one of the most beloved Star Wars games of all time, Jedi aficionados Aspyr followed up that news by releasing a port of the original Knights of the Old Republic on Nintendo Switch as well! As a game I’d heard so
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 15 – 15/01/22 – 361 Days, 15 Hours, 30 Minutes and 22 Seconds to go…
It’s starting to become clear that the ‘short sessions’ with Monty are actually becoming the norm, and that I need to be content with what time I can spend on The Longing between work, family commitments and reviews. Day 15 was a pretty comfortable one, with Monty spending most of his time at home, aside
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 14 – 14/01/22 – 368 Days, 16 Hours, 36 Minutes and 16 Seconds to go…
Friday is always a bit of a whirlwind of a day, so I didn’t get a huge amount of time with Monty again, as seems to be becoming the habit lately 😅. That said, it was a short but incredibly sweet play session, especially in comparison to some of the sour notes left by experiences
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 13 – 13/01/22 – 369 Days, 16 Hours, 29 Minutes and 57 Seconds to go…
“When will my longing end?” Monty From Monty’s opening words, I guessed that he hadn’t enjoyed his evening digging in the [mushroom mines] 😅. But that was an attitude for yesterday – Day 12 is in the rear view mirror and Day 13 was in front of us. After a frankly rubbish day yesterday, I
