👮🚨🍩 Review: Beat Cop (iOS) - "An 80's Pixel Fest Of Cops, Donuts and Laughs!" 👮🚨🍩 #IndieGame @11bitstudios @PxCrow

Beat Cop - iOS

11 Bit Studios

I’m stuck on my train on the way home on a Thursday evening, the train I’m on has stopped and hasn’t moved in the last 15 minutes. Then I remember that I have Beat Cop on my iPhone to play, so I whip it out and get stuck into this great pixel art 80’s police shows inspired video game.

🕹️ Doncaster is Ready To Host The UK’s Biggest Retro Gaming Market On Sunday March 3rd! 🕹️ #Retrogaming @ReplayEvents

"An air of nostalgia is set to sweep through Doncaster in March when the UK’s biggest 

retro video game market comes to town."

🐗 Review: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - PS4 - "Never a ‘boar’ing moment" 🐗 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Developer: The Bearded Ladies

Platform reviewed: Playstation 4

Rating: Ice Cool

Pre-fight stealth sections add a new angle to the turn-based strategy formula present in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (MYZ: RTE) and the story, whilst quite generic is rich with atmosphere and the unforgiving gameplay is just on the right side to keep you involved without it feeling hugely unfair.

🎧 Unboxing: Venom Nighthawk Chat Gaming Headset (PS4/PC/XBOX/SWITCH/MAC/MOBILE) 🎧

🎧 "This month I'm testing out the Nighthawk single cup gaming headset, ideal for a gamer on a budget who needs one ear on the action and the other on a potential crying baby or maybe the front doorbell!" 🎧

🏌 Episode 11: Battle Golfer - 1991 - SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive - Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun! ⛳ #Retrogaming

🏌Golf Video Games Don't Get Much Weirder Than Battle Golfer Yui on the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive!

Watch me struggle to comprehend this games weirdness! ⛳

🎧 Gioteck TX20 Retro Stereo Game & Go Headset - Unboxing 🎧 #Unboxing

🎧 "Check these funky retro Gioteck TX20 earphones out with me. Gioteck has got these awesome retro-styled earphones out right now and they're made for gaming. They are compatible with PS4, XBOX, SWITCH, PC, MAC, MOBILE and any other system with a standard microphone jack!" 🎧

🖥 PC Upgrades You Can Probably Afford 🖥

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If your PC is starting to feel a bit sluggish you may be thinking it is time to replace it. They are not cheap though, and a better option could be to look at ways of improving its performance.

PC upgrades could save you a lot of money and make your PC feel like a new machine.

🐒♚Ten Minute Taster: Monkey King: Master Of The Clouds [PS4] 🐒♚ #IndieGame @RetroismGames

♚🐒"A huge Japanese coin-op hit developed by HOT-B in 1989, the game was later renamed Cloud Master when released outside Japan on the Sega Master System. 

It subsequently appeared on NES, SFC, and the PC Engine. This upgraded release of the original arcade version includes HD ready elements by developer Starfish-SD, the company formed by the original HOT-B development team.

For the first time, live online leaderboards will add a worldwide competitive quality to the game not possible before."🐒♚

⚔️🗝️ Review: Iron Crypticle - "Total Carnage, I Love It! (SWITCH) 🗝️⚔️ #GameDev @TIKIPODltd @BrittRecluseuk

Game Title: Iron Crypticle

Developer: Confused Pelican

Platform reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Ice Cool

Playing like a four-player version of Super Smash TV with RPG elements, Iron Crypticle went down a storm at a recent multiplayer night at mine, the clever use of random generation and unlockable items to make each dungeon delve more varied as well as ramping up the replay value immensely.

Fun in single player but elevated above and beyond in the mighty form of local co-op, Iron Crypticle is a keeper.

⛳️🎮 Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 10: Arnold Palmer's Tournament Golf - 1989 🎮⛳️ #Retrogaming

⛳️🎮 "Play this game with a yardage chart and you might just become a World Champion" 🎮⛳️

🔎 Review: Call Of Cthulu "Not so much a call as a distant whimper" 🔎 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Call of Cthulhu

Developer: Cyanide

Platform Reviewed: Playstation 4

The main bulk of my knowledge of Cyanide as developers comes from their previous titles Of Orcs and Men and Styx: Master of Shadows, two titles that, whilst quite rigid in their gameplay, kept me involved until the end.

Whereas in terms of H.P Lovecraft in the gaming medium, the two main touchpoints for me are 2005’s Dark Corners of the Earth and the more recent Conarium, both tasty titles for different reasons.

This new title, Call of Cthulhu, whilst having some great moments, never felt like it got into a flow for me, too many moving parts and a leaping narrative removed my sense of immersion and also interest, ultimately making the latter half of the game feel like a trudge.

⚽ Championship Manager 93 Legends ⚽ #Retrogaming

Nostalgia is a powerful force of nature.

I just got back into playing Championship Manager 93 which is an extremely dangerous statement to be making upfront as I'm now a recovering CM Addict from the 90s.

🗝️ Ten Minute Taster: Rehtona "It's Another Backwards!" 🗝️ #GameDev

游戏简介

《幻境双生 - Rehtona》）是一款复古风的平台像素解谜游戏，首发平台是Steam。在游戏中，玩家将扮演主角Rehtona，身处正发生异变的世界，利用各类独创性机关和她被赐予的 “幻象标记” 能力，穿梭于世界的表里两侧，收集每一片世界之心碎片，解开一个个谜题，找寻故事的真相。

🆒 Review: OlliOlli Switch Stance "If you’ve never played OlliOlli this feels like the ideal time to get involved" 🆒 #GameDev #IndieGame @Roll_7

Let me list off my extensive skateboarding video games points of reference so as I can frame this review for you a little better.

California Games (SMS) – Year Of Release: 1987

Tony Hawks 2 (PS1) – Year Of Release: 2000

🎮🧠 Can Gaming Give You These Life Skills? 🧠🎮

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Gaming is an adventure, a way to relax and to catch up with friends.

But have you ever stopped to think it could be teaching you valuable skills?

Yep, it turns out that all the times your parents yelled at you for spending hours hammering away at your controller in your games room, they might have been wrong about it being a waste of time - because you were actually developing a whole host of useful attributes.

Of course, there is no denying that there can be a dark side to excessive gaming - the media is rife with stories of addiction and anti-social behaviour -, but there's also an underreported good side.

🖳 Loading Screen Games 🖳 #Retrogaming

Who remembers a time when you would sit and wait for your computer games to load?

Anyone who owned a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or an Atari 800 will remember it very well!

🔎 Review: Observer 'A great way to spend a few ‘Hauers’ 🔎 @BlooberTeam @BrittRecluseuk #GameDev

Game Title: Observer

Developer: Bloober team

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: Ice Cool

Everything is improved by adding Rutger Hauer, the movie veteran of classics such as Blade Runner (most applicable here), Salute of the Jugger, The Hitcher, Surviving the Game and dozens more besides (yes, even Armageddon with Mark Dacascos, a better film than the 1998 Michael Bay one) provides the physical basis and voices the protagonist of Observer, Daniel Lazarski.

A cop for the KPD (Krakow Police Department), his speciality is hacking into neural implants and ‘observing’ memories to piece together crime scenes. Set almost exclusively in a rundown tenement building in a dystopian Poland, Observer manages to convey a rich world full of dubious history in a relatively claustrophobic setting. Good.

🕹️ Games Room Tour 2019 - "Britt & Faye's Games Room(s)" 🕹️ @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts #Retrogaming

"Join Britt as he shows us around the awesome games room that he and Faye have built up. Keep your eyes open for some pure retrogaming gold in them there rooms!"

@BrittRecluseuk 🕹️

@kingdomofcarts 🕹️

🌵 Ten Minute Taster: Brawlout - PS4 "My First Go At A Platform Fighter Game!" 🌵 #Brawlout

🥕🥕🥕 Review: Ninjin: Clash Of Carrots "Surprisingly endearing carrot-based frolics" 🥕🥕🥕 #GameDev @NinjinClash

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots
Rating: Ice Cool

When I first received this game for review, I must admit that, from the trailer I assumed it was a tedious endless runner, possibly ported from mobile platforms and so I began to set up the rickety stool and noose, however, I was hugely surprised to see that the game offers far more depth and challenge than I initially expected.

🔴🔫 Review: Pang Adventures "We all make mistakes…mine was not playing this from the second it was released" 🔴🔫

Game Title – Pang Adventures

Developer – Dot Emu

Platform reviewed – Nintendo Switch

Rating – Ice Cool

I sat down to play Pang Adventures with my girlfriend, as it has always shone (as does everything) in local co-op.

After the first training round which probably lasted less than ten seconds, I turned to her and said, “I’m addicted to this”.

What followed were a couple of hours of us ploughing through the first 40 or so (out of 100) levels and I fully intend to carry on tonight, I love it.