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Review: 🎮 Directive 8020 is a nifty narrative horror lost in its influences 🎮

Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone.

Hunted by an alien organism capable of mimicking its prey, the crew of the Cassiopeia must outwit their pursuers to make it home alive. As they battle to survive, they are confronted with the hardest choice of all: to save themselves, they must risk the lives of everyone on Earth. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Directive 8020 is a nifty narrative horror lost in its influences 🎮

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Review: 🎮 007 First Light – license to enter the modern video game stratosphere? Granted 🎮

After a heroic act, young Naval air crewman Bond is offered the opportunity to join the newly revived Double 0 programme.

But when a mission to stop a rogue agent ends in tragedy, he must join forces with his reluctant mentor Greenway to expose a deep conspiracy and stop a looming coup at the heart of the State. Continue reading Review: 🎮 007 First Light – license to enter the modern video game stratosphere? Granted 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Silent Hill 2 Remake is a masterpiece’s masterpiece 🎮

After receiving a letter from his wife Mary three years after her death, James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill, their ‘special place’, where the letter says she waits.

He knows it’s impossible, he knows it’s insane, but James can’t quite fight Silent Hill’s call. Reaching his destination, James finds the town eerily empty and covered in a fog that seems to have a life of its own. Resolute in finding his dead wife, James instead will find nightmares beyond his imagination and painful truths he’d buried deep.

His survival, if possible, might not be worth it… Continue reading Review: 🎮 Silent Hill 2 Remake is a masterpiece’s masterpiece 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Outlaws is a rudimentary but flexible action adventure that rewards curiosity 🎮

Marked with death, scoundrel and thief Kay Vess sets her sights on the mother-load of credits, enough to buy her way to freedom and out of the boiling underbelly of criminal syndicates she needs to grease to her favour. Scouring the galaxy, Kay will need a colourful and capable crew, all the while watching her back for the knives they might try to pull along the way. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Outlaws is a rudimentary but flexible action adventure that rewards curiosity 🎮

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Review: 📚 The Last Thing He Told Me bucks the genre’s traditional trends to tell a thrilling tale around identity and family 📚

IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HER

Before Own Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his teenage daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As her desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen’s true identity, and why he disappeared. Together they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again… Continue reading Review: 📚 The Last Thing He Told Me bucks the genre’s traditional trends to tell a thrilling tale around identity and family 📚

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