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EGX: Hands on – Ex-Zodiac

The important thing, when making a nostalgic love letter to an old game, is to not let nostalgia get in the way. For every great memory you might have of a title from decades ago, there are also the decades of progress in what ...

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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Tracks: The Train Set Game

When I was in primary school, one of my friends had a wooden train set and I was jealous. Partly it was just about them being trains, partly the appreciation you understand more getting older of how nice wood is to work with. I...

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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Mothergunship

Triple-jumping over a river of lava as masses of bullets fly past you, dropping towards a robotic turret with both guns blazing – a machine gun/flame thrower/rocket launcher affair in the right hand, blade shooter/shotgun/beam ...

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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Deflection Dimension

Deflection Dimension is actually quite a simple idea for a game, and might have been overshadowed on the show floor at Rezzed where some indie titles are now beginning to look as big and polished as games from big studios. But ...

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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Flipping Death

If gaming has ever taught us one thing, it is that death is an inconvenience rather than a conclusion. So it appears for our protagonist in Flipping Death, whose realisation that she might be dead (the whole “being transp...

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EGX Rezzed: Hands on – Dead Cells

A mass of proto-matter drops from the sky, climbs inside a decapitated corpse, and walks away; the first person it meets isn’t surprised in the least. A hands-on session with Dead Cells appears to pose nothing except ques...

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Detroit: Become Human – Hands on Preview

I’m a total sucker for David Cage games… I mean pretty much anything Quantic Dream have put out over the last few years I’ve loved from a personal point of view – don’t get me wrong from a critic’s point of vi...

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Sonic Force – Hands on Preview

Sonic is enjoying something of a revival thanks to the sterling work with Sonic Mania earlier this year. The gorgeously realised 2d update was the sequel to the original trilogy that everyone had wanted for years.

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Etherborn – Hands on Preview

Every year I trawl around the Leftfield area of EGX like a massive toddler – “I want entertaining – entertain me with something new!” is the internal whinge. This used to be true of the Rezzed area too, but unless I...

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Super Meat Boy Forever – Hands on Preview

When the original Super Meatboy was released it was like Team Meat had birthed the mother of all frustrating and super satisfying platformers. Ridiculous precision, insanely addictive and weirdly cute the whole thing just spoke...