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Is 2017 the Year of the Platformer Renaissance?

by Sam Blackburn• 15th November 2017

What lies in store for the platformer genre? Sam Blackburn speculates....

JRPGs: A Newcomer’s Perspective

by Sam Blackburn• 2nd October 2017

Sam Blackburn charts his descent into the bizarre world of Japanese Roleplaying Games....

Throwback – WWE

by Sam Blackburn• 9th May 2017

During the Easter Break I made the decision to subscribe to the WWE Network to watch old episodes of Raw, Smackdown and matches featuring the greatest wrestler of all time, Chris...

Memory Card: Banjo-Kazooie

by Sam Blackburn• 8th May 2017

Sam Blackburn returns to the nostalgic world of Rare’s bear and bird...

Graduation grub

by Sam Blackburn• 8th May 2017

For those of you poor, unfortunate souls who will be leaving the toon this Summer, Sam Blackburn has some ‘alternative’ ideas for the traditional farewell meal. Do the toon...

Trouble with double standards?

by Sam Blackburn• 20th March 2017

Do we have a problem with judgment and labelling someone for doing something they want? Sam Blackburn takes on the topic of differences in perception around sex...

The Return of Twin Peaks

by Sam Blackburn• 6th March 2017

The owls are not what they seem… well at least not in the mountain town of Twin Peaks, Washington State. Twin Peaks is hard to describe. It’s not comparable to anything else...

Top 5 Console Exclusives

by Sam Blackburn• 27th February 2017

5. Pikmin I’m keeping this list fresh by only mentioning exclusives from the current generation of consoles, that is why Pikmin 3 features at number two. I love the Wii U, as I...