Reviews

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Party Hard 2 – Review

You just want to sleep, I feel that more than anyone and I can totally understand that driving someone to a mass spree of murder. “Party Hard 2” is just that, one person’s journey into madness as the party scene destroys his life. I have never played the first ‘’Party

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Slim & I – Review

‘Slim & I’ is a film that documents the legacy of Australian country music legend and idol, Slim Dusty, through the eyes of ‘the woman beside the man’, Joy McKean. Joy was more than just Slim’s wife, she was also his manager and songwriter, and was a huge part of

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NBA 2K21 – Review

Published by 2K Sports and developed by Visual Concepts, NBA 2K21 is the 22nd installment to the 2K franchise. I am not the biggest fan of the NBA and it has been at least 10 years since I last played a Basketball game, so let’s see if much has changed.

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Marvel’s Avengers – Review

Marvel’s Avengers is developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montreal and published by Square Enix. Avengers is an action, adventure game that gives you control of some of the biggest names from the Marvel comics including Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye and Ms Marvel, with Spiderman

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Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars – Review

Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars is a turn-based strategy game developed by Palindrome Interactive and published by Kalypso Media. This game is very reminiscent of the old ‘Warcraft’ games and ‘Age of Empires’, in certain ways at least. What I was even more surprised by was how much the combat reminded

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Ary And The Secret Of Seasons – Review

The only good part of a pandemic? Making video games even more fantastical. For example, ‘Ary and the Secret of Seasons’ introduces us to our young heroine, Aryelle, as she travels the vast world of Valdi and enjoys all four seasons- OUTDOORS! What a fantasy in 2020. Developed by eXiin

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Paradise Killer – Review

Published by Fellow Traveler and developed by Kaizen Game Works, Paradise Killer is an open world, murder mystery, crime solving, investigation game. Players take control of Lady Love Dies, an investigator who must search for clues and speak with suspects on Paradise Island Sequence 24, gathering enough information to make

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Kandagawa Jet Girls – Review

From the anime-inspired minds of XSEED Games (popular for such titles as Sakuna, Killer is Dead, BurgerTime Party, Corpse Party, & Run Factory 4 Special) comes their latest endeavour: Kandagawa Jet Girls! GAMEPLAY KANDAGAWA JET GIRLS is an anime-based racing game, where you and your Japanese best girlfriend will be

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Control: AWE Expansion – Review

AWE, or Altered World Event, is the second and latest DLC for Control, this time bringing the Alan Wake game into the narrative. Again, starting from where we left off from the Foundation expansion, Director Jesse Faden gets a hotline vision, message, otherworldly phone call, or however you want to

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Iron Harvest 1920+ – Review

We have experienced and played all types of games, T.V. Shows and Movies with alternative histories, but ‘Iron Harvest’ brings something different. In an alternative reality set in 1920, it’s the end of the Great War where technology and history took a different turn towards diesel-punk technology and the use

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Witcheye – Review

Witcheye a fun side scrolling platformer published by Devolver Digital and developed by Moon Kid is a fun and tricky game that has been released for mobile phones, PC and the Nintendo Switch. Playing this copy on the Switch, you play as a witch who has had her spell ingredients

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Wasteland 3 – Review

Published by Deep Silver and developed by inXile Entertainment, in Wasteland 3, you take command of a squad of Desert Rangers, lawmen and women in a post-nuclear world, trying to rebuild society from the ashes. More than a century after the bombs fell, you’re fighting a losing battle to keep

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Street Power Football – Review

Step aside Messi! Ronaldinho? Who’s that?! Become the king of Street Power Football! Brought to us by developers SFL Interactive and Gamajun and Published by Maximum Games, Street Power Football is an epic take on football, bringing us the way the beautiful game is more creatively played, in the streets.

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Windbound – Review

‘Windbound’ by 5 Lives Studios, is a survival game that pulls out all the stops on ocean fairing and scourging across the 7 seas. Published by Deep Silver and Koch Media, this title is available as of now on PC and all consoles, even the Stadia, but did it let

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Tell Me Why – Review

From the studio that brought you ‘’Life is Strange’, Dontnod Studios, have come back with Tell Me Why. Published by Xbox Game Studios, you play as twins, Tyler and Alison, as they tell you the story of their childhood where a tragic event has shaped their lives. This beautiful narrative

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Project Cars 3 – Review

Project Cars 3 is a racing simulator developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. This game boasts one of the most realistic car racing simulators currently available and it’s hard to disagree. They have really pushed the feel, control and technique of a real vehicle from

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No Straight Roads – Review

It’s somewhat fulfilling when art imitates life, when reality becomes immortalized in fictitious ways. From the creative minds of Wan Hazmer (Final Fantasy XV) and Daim Dziauddin (Street Fighter V), comes this fantastically magical, new indie game ‘No Straight Roads’, which targets the rise of EDM music and the subsequent

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Mortal Shell – Review

Mortal Shell published by Playstack and developed by Cold Symmetry is an action, role-playing video game that really gives me mixed emotions as I’ve said countless times before “I’m not a fan of Dark Soul type games”. This game literally beat the crap out of me mentally making my hate

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Darkestville Castle – Review

I try not to think of myself as sadistic, but Darkestville Castle is the story of a demon who spends every day terrorising the town of Darkestville…and I have never laughed so much in a video game. This classic point-and-click game developed by the (clearly hilarious) legends at Epic Llama

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