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Review: 🎮 Pragmata is a smorgasbord of influences that come together to form a unique sci-fi action adventure 🎮

In the near future, humans have developed Lunafilament, a material that can be used to create almost anything, so long as its users have the right data.

When communication is lost with the lunar station dedicated to the research and development of this material, a response team is dispatched. However, a massive lunar quake hits soon after their arrival.

Hugh Williams – separated from his team, unconscious and badly injured – is discovered by Diana, a mysterious being in the form of a young girl. She is a Pragmata, a unique android created using Lunafilament. With the station’s Artificial Intelligence IDUS determined to remove them by any means necessary, Hugh and Diana will have to fight their way to the heart of the mystery if they ever want to return to Earth. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Pragmata is a smorgasbord of influences that come together to form a unique sci-fi action adventure 🎮

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Review: 📚 The Hunting Party hits the bullseye for a devilishly dark drama 📚

NEW YEAR. OLD FRIENDS.

IT’S A PARTY TO DIE FOR…

New Year, the Loch Corrin Estate: in a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather.

The beautiful one
The golden couple
The volatile one
The new parents
The quiet one
The city boy
The outsider

The victim.

Not an accident – a murder among friends. Continue reading Review: 📚 The Hunting Party hits the bullseye for a devilishly dark drama 📚

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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: 📚 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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Review: 🎮 Still Wakes the Deep is a chilling creature-feature crawling with atmosphere 🎮

1975, North Sea, Scotland.
Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary works aboard the Beira D, an offshore oil rig facing industrial action over a dangerously cheap infrastructure, but when Caz’s past follows him out to sea, before he can face it, a disaster uncovers an unknown creature that joins the riggers onboard…

Isolated, cut off, and battered by the relentlessly ferocious weather, Caz and his fellow workers will need to pull on all of their strengths to keep the Beira D afloat, all the while avoiding a mysterious monster haunting its halls. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Still Wakes the Deep is a chilling creature-feature crawling with atmosphere 🎮

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