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6 days ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
When is a game not a game? Some would argue that a game needs to be challenging, but personally, that definition doesn’t sit right with me. By that sort of logic, a game can stop being a game as soon as you start being good enough at it to no longer find it challenging. For me, a game relatively simply needs to be a piece of interactive media with a defined set of rules.
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2 weeks ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
When it comes to games as a medium for comedy, it can be a bit tough to find good examples of pure ‘comedy’ experiences that are any good. Sure, visiting the ‘meme’ tag on Steam might have you thinking that ‘joke’ games are common, but often that particular tag is so far removed from comedy that it ends up feeling more like tragedy.
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3 weeks ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
Sometimes you can go into a game with a general idea of what it’s going to be like. Whether you’re informed by the tropes and trappings of a familiar genre or just read into the advertising and artwork, sometimes knowing the ins and outs of genre conventions can be a blessing…or a curse. In our Moving Houses review, you’ll discover just what the hell we’re talking about, and whether or not you need to change your approach to this ‘interesting’ house-moving simulator.
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4 weeks ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
Running out of something you love sucks. It’s a problem that I seem to run into all the time when it comes to mystery visual novels. They suck me in and get me hooked on the mysteries within, then before I know it, the whole thing is over, and I’m left wondering what to do with myself. Enter The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, a game seemingly designed for people like me who do not want these games to end and that might just be a monkey’s paw in disguise.
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4 weeks ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
The worlds of modern and retro gaming collide with our Retro-Bit Wireless Mega Drive Controller Review. When it comes to playing retro games, you want to play on original hardware, but it would also be great to have proper modern wireless controllers with all of the modern conveniences that we expect from a gaming controller. Can you do it all without losing the spirit of what feels like a Mega Drive controller? Let’s find out. What Is the Retro-Bit Wireless Mega Drive Controller?
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1 month ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
In these days of online gaming, it’s important to have the best headset that you can get. It’s no good jumping feet first into anything from Lethal Company to Fortnite without a decent way of communicating with your team/squad, at least, not unless you mind having minimal success. As such, it behoves the prepared gamer to get their hands on the best-in-show gaming headset that they can buy, and the Corsair VOID Wireless v2 headset aims to be the best.
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2 months ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
Like many people in my country, I’m concerned about the environment. Here in the UK, climate anxiety is at an all-time high, probably because we’ve got water companies polluting all our waterways, fracking in the North Sea, and a bunch of iconic natural landmarks being destroyed by criminal hooligans. In many ways, that makes Spilled! A very therapeutic experience.
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2 months ago | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
When it comes to some branded Nintendo merch, you can’t go wrong with a good set of wired headphones. Sure, Bluetooth might be the modern standard when it comes to listening to your personal devices, and the Nintendo Switch is no exception, but if you’re buying these for a kid, or you just prefer wired audio, then the PowerA Mario Kart Wired Ear Buds for Nintendo Switch are the perfect piece of tech for you. What Are the PowerA Mario Kart Wired Ear Buds for Nintendo Switch?
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
It’s not often that a game leaves you genuinely angry by the time you’re done with it, which is possibly one of the most loaded opening sentences to a video game preview that has ever existed. Helios Hotel: The Night Shift is a first-person ‘horror’ game that sees you put in place as the new night receptionist of a creepy hotel. As you go through the game, things get weirder and weirder, culminating in some incredibly scary and out-of-the-ordinary happenings indicating something is very wrong.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
gamingrespawn.com | Will Worrall |William Worrall
The block-sliding puzzle has long been a staple of puzzle gamers. From even the earliest days of video games, block-sliding or pushing puzzles have been a huge mainstay of the genre for one reason or another. Whether you’re spending your time in Chip’s Challenge or going for the OG warehouse stylings of Sokoban, there are plenty of options to choose from.
