Review: Transformers/Back to the Future #1
As a fan of both 80s franchises since they first appeared, it’s great to see Transformers and Back to the Future combine during the 35th anniversary of the time travel […]
Board Game Review: Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones
Far from a normal board game, Funko’s Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones has a strong collectable element to its appealingly cute figures, as well as blind bag/box type mystery characters – with the endorphin rush of cracking open the egg-like Thanostones cleverly woven into the game’s mechanics. All a single player needs to play is a single pack too, […]
TV Review: The Toys That Made Us
I reviewed a single episode of Netflix series The Toys That Made Us recently (the one covering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and found it to be full of interesting details about how the turtles became such a phenomenon. What I found most intriguing was just how much of what we know about the franchise – what we perhaps take as […]
TV Review: The Toys That Made Us – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
After learning about the rise and fall of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise recently by watching – and immensely enjoying – the documentary Power of Grayskull, […]
Film Review: Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
I distinctly remember missing the broadcast of the very first episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the UK; I was out playing with friends while it was on and we were all extremely jealous of the talk in the playground the next day, having not been able to witness what we were told was an absolutely […]
Review: Windosill
Another title that’s part of the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (which now contains over 1700 items for a $5 minimum – and ends tomorrow), Windosill is a gentle puzzle game that sees you poking, pulling, pushing, twisting and prodding different objects in order to open the way for a car to move to the next of the […]
Mobile Game Review: I Want To Go To Mars
Note: I Want To Go To Mars is released on the 26th of February 2020. I played a pre-release build of the game but will update my review if there […]
Nerf Laser Ops Pro: Alphapoint – Toy Review
Laser tag – in big ‘arenas’ – was quite a big thing when I was a teenager. Big, warehouse type spaces were kitted out with moody, ultraviolet lighting and appropriately […]
Claybook – Switch
There’s something incredibly pleasing about playing with clay. The feel, the smell, the endless possibilities that come with just a few different coloured lumps of squishy goodness. There’s a magic that’s hard to capture in games, mostly because the majority of the joy inherent in playing with clay comes from the tactile nature of it – it’s difficult to translate […]
Starlink: Battle For Atlas
The toys to life phenomenon had already run its course and burned out – leaving huge piles of plastic in its wake – quite some time before UbiSoft decided to […]
