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Review: Assassin’s Creed Origins – Curse of the Pharaohs

After 6 months, Ian finally puts Assassin's Creed Origins to rest with its latest expansion.

Review: Bloodborne: The Card Game

Based on the video game, Bloodborne: The Card Game is fun for fans and novices alike.

Review: S**t Happens

Alex reviews an adult party game that imagines all possible bad situations that could happen.

Review: Ready Player One

Diarmuid reviews Ready Player One and enjoys his time in Steven Spielberg's world of pure imagination.

Review: Unlock! Mystery Adventures

Unlock! Mystery Adventures is great fun for an evening's play, with atmospheric gameplay and great artwork.

Review: The American Dream

Diarmuid reviews The American Dream, a VR title created by Samurai Punk that satirises gun culture.

Review: Tomb Raider (2018)

Ian reviews director Roar Uthaug's re-imagining of Lara Croft. A tense movie that packs a punch, Tomb Raider is not just another video game movie.

Review: Annihilation

Alex takes a look at Alex Garland's second film, which bypassed the cinema screen coming straight to Netflix. Her only regret is missing the big screen experience.

Review: The Council Episode One – The Mad Ones

Ian ventures forth to uncover the mystery around newest narrative adventure game The Council.

Review: Rad Rodgers

Rad Rodgers is a self-proclaimed throwback to 90’s platformers, with all of the pros and cons that you’d expect from such a game.

Review: Lazer Ryderz

Lazer Ryderz from Greater Than Games is an easy game for an Eighties child like Tim to fall in love with.

Review: Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne

Alex reviews a board game based on HBO's Game of Thrones.

Review: Past Cure

Ian takes the blue pill and enters a nightmare world to review Phantom 8 Studio's stealth/action horror game, Past Cure. Does he survive?

Review: Black Panther

Ian takes a trip to Wakanda to review Black Panther. Does it manage to claw its way into Marvel's top spot?

Review: Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1 Chapter 2)

Ian sets phasers to numb and discovers what happens when you boldly go too far.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Review

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is everything fans could have wanted from a sequel and more. At times it's almost too much.

Review: Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA

Announced in 2013. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA is out and Rik thinks the series' first foray into full 3D is worth the wait.

Review: Arrow (Season 5) Blu Ray

Rik doesn't think the fifth season of The CW's Arrow is bad by any stretch of the imagination. It’s just ‘fine’.

Lootcrate Unboxing – Lootgaming August Fortress

Tim takes his first tremulous steps into the world of unboxing with a LootGaming product.

Review: Ticket to Ride: First Journey

Alex reviews a beautiful digital app of one of the best modern board games. She was left impressed.

Review: Last Day of June

Alex reviews an emotional and touching game about the love and loss, that is unlikely to leave you indifferent.

Review: Legends of Tomorrow – Season 2 Blu Ray

The Legends continue their adventures in time but the lack of extras leave Rik wanting more.

Review: Pillars of Eternity – Complete Edition

After its PC release, Pillars of Eternity has made its way to consoles and Rik checks it out.

PS VRoundup – August 2017

Coleman, Diarmuid and Tim catch up on some recent PlayStation VR game releases and look ahead for what's to come.

Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Reuben reviews Valerian, a beautiful but flawed sci-fi film.

Review: The Emoji Movie

Diarmuid reviews the ever popular Emoji Movie and struggles to see the smiley face through the poop.

Review: Power Rangers – Blu Ray

Rik thinks Power Rangers is everything he expected it to be and the Blu-Ray is a must own for fans of the movie.

Review: Iron Crypticle

Iron Crypticle isn't a bad game; it works well enough and there is sure to be an audience for it, but Rik is not it.

Review: Nex Machina

If you're a fan of Housemarque already or looking to kill 10 minutes, Rik cannot recommend Nex Machina highly enough.

Review: Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas

Diarmuid reviews Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, an homage to classic Zelda games.

Review: The Next Great American Game

The Next Great American Game is a fascinating look into the life of a budding board game designer, as well as the industry as a whole.

Review: Praetor

Alex reviews Praetor, a worker placement game, where each player is an engineer in Roman empire trying to impress Caesar with their city planning skills.

Review: Blueprints

Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby just to let me down? Samurai Rabbit plays Yves Tourigny's Blueprints.

Review: HexAgony

Not long time ago Alex has discovered a little game called HexAgony that proved that a great simple idea is sometimes all that matters to make a great game.

Review: Elysium

Alex has spent some time chumming with Greek Gods - it was quite legendary! For more details, read her review of Elysium.

Review: Dogs of War

Michael reviews Dogs of War, a game that combines the strategy and depth of a Euro game with the theme of a war game. Also there are lots of hats!!

Review: Quartermaster General

Chris Korek goes looking for a better (board game) version of world domination than Risk, and finds Quartermaster General.

Review: Legendary

Legendary is a Marvel-based deck building board and card game of heroic proportions that also ranks among Tim's favourite tabletop games in general.

Review: Istanbul

As a big fan of worker placement board games, Alex was very excited to get her hands on this award winning game.