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Review: SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt

Typically the Metroidvania genre emphasizes upgrade-based exploration, with hidden areas scattered about. What happens when the entire game is a hidden area?

Diarmuid’s Top Games of 2013

When it comes to my favourite games of 2013, I found it easy to compile a list stretching into the double digits but difficult to narrow them down and nigh on impossible to give them an order of preference.

Review: Guacamelee!

Drinkbox’s Guacamelee melds elements of their previous title, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, with some new ingredients to make a ‘videojuego fantástico’.

BRB UK 56: Tim-o-nomics

It’s that time of the week for a smidge of tea-fuelled burbling about the week’s gaming news. This week, Dan and Tim are joined by Kev from the Big Red Barrelcast – as Jon forgot that a weekly podcast tends to happen every week.

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