Notes
Just fleeting thoughts that pop into my mind. Or perhaps things I’ve been thinking about that don’t really warrant a full-on post.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider Blood Ties on PSVR
Rise of the Tomb Raider Blood Ties came with the base game as part of the Tomb Raider 20 year celebration. I have previously written about my love for Rise of the Tomb Raider. However, I was not prepared for just how amazing the Blood Ties DLC would be in PlayStation VR. The same blood…
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Charlie Boy (Hammer House of Horror episode 6)
Charlie boy is about a couple, Graham and Sarah, who come into possession of an African idol after Graham’s uncle dies. (Sarah gives the idol the name Charlie Boy). Unbeknown to the couple, the idol is cursed and is in fact a voodoo statue. What is Charlie Boy about? After a disagreement with his brother, Graham…
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Resident Evil Kitchen Demo on PSVR
The Resident Evil Kitchen Demo is a little taster that Capcom put out around the release of Resident Evil 7. It shows off, in its short five minutes of game play, the pure horror potential for Playstation VR, and indeed VR in general. What happens in the Resident Evil Kitchen Demo? You spend the entirety of…
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The House That Bled to Death (Hammer House of Horror episode 5)
The House That Bled to Death kicks off strong and stays strong throughout its 50 minutes. It keeps a sustained anxiousness until it’s very final scenes. What is ‘The house that bled to death about? The darkest and coldest opening of the series so far. An elderly couple are together in the kitchen about to…
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Growing Pains (Hammer House of Horror episode 4)
We open the episode to see a small boy looking around a laboratory at the different coloured powders on the shelf. He then proceeds to eat one of the powders, which immediately sends him into a trance-like fit before dying on the grass outside. His parents run out after hearing breaking glass only to find…
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Fortnite Battle Royale review
What is a “Battle Royale” game? Battle Royale refers to a particular style of game where every player is trying to kill all other players. It is a last person standing all-out war. Typically, all players will land on different places across a large island and hurry to find weapons and survive longer than all…
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The Thirteenth Reunion (Hammer House of Horror episode 2)
Leading on from the series’ opener, Witching Time, is the second episode of the eighties British anthology series Hammer House of Horror. The Thirteenth Reunion is a step away from the supernatural – perhaps consciously so in order to display the show’s diversity. What’s The Thirteenth Reunion about? Ruth is a newspaper reporter who has been stuck…
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Witching Time (Hammer House of Horror episode 1)
One evening David is composing the score for a new film when a loud but brief storm hits. When his dog, Billy, goes running off, he pursues it into the nearby horse stables. However, in the stables he doesn’t find Billy; instead he finds a mysterious woman in a black robe lying in the hay.…
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Thoughts on Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft is one of, if not my number one, favourite computer game character of all time. So I went into this game already loving it with a pretty strong bias. That being said, I can honestly say that Rise of the Tomb Raider is one of the best all-round games I’ve ever played. What…
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Too alive – Thoughts on the game Outlast
Dark, disturbing and utterly terrifying. I don’t think I’ve been quite so scared playing a game than I have been with Outlast. It came to a point where being killed was a blessed relief from then suspended tension. Things were always going to get bad for our hero, I just didn’t foresee how bad things would…
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