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GAME REVIEW – Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft brings back the iconic first three games in the Tomb Raider series – Tomb Raider (1996), Tomb Raider II (1997) and Tomb Raider III (1998) – to modern consoles and PC. Developed and published by Aspyr, who previously helped port the first six Tomb Raider games to macOS in the late ’90s/early 2000s, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered adds new features across all three games, including the ability to switch between original and enhanced graphics and classic and modern controls, a photo mode, health bars for boss battles and hundreds of unlockable achievements.

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GAME REVIEW – Alan Wake 2 (PlayStation 5)

By Marty Mulrooney

Alan Wake 2

Alan Wake 2 (stylised as Alan Wake II) is a third-person survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment (Quantum Break, Control, Alan Wake Remastered) and published by Epic Games Publishing. A sequel to the original Alan Wake 13 years in the making, this digital-only release set high expectations when it was finally announced at The Game Awards in 2021. On 27th October 2023, gamers around the world were finally able to continue their fight against the Dark Presence… and the end result was unexpected, to say the least.

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GAME REVIEW – Midnight Girl (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Midnight Girl

Midnight Girl is a 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Italic ApS, a Copenhagen-based indie game company founded by Thomas Ryder and Camilla Pedersen. Set in France during the mid-1960s, players take control of late-teen tomboy Monique, an amateur cat-burglar living in Paris who ends up crossing paths with a legendary thief called The Night Owl.

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GAME REVIEW – Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Lithuanian independent game studio Tag of Joy. Inspired by heavyweights of the genre such as Broken Sword, players take control of Milda – a girl from Chicago – as she unravels a mystery that will see her packing her bags and journeying through modern-day Europe ‘to reveal the secrets of the King who was never crowned.’

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