Gaming
Video game reviews, events, previews, opinions and discussions by Northern gamers.
Quality Control: Mobile phone gaming – exploitation or excellent?
Mobile phone gaming is often accused of shallow gameplay designed to consistently extort money from gamers’ wallets in the guise of ‘free to play’ – which is anything but. However, as phone technology moves inexorably forward, is this attitude outdated? Northern Soul gamers investigate.
Flights of Fantasy: Northern Soul tests its mettle at the IMAX Virtual Reality Experience
After several false starts, the current virtual reality revolution feels different – something which became clear as I was treated to a pre-flight tour of the new IMAX VR Experience at the Trafford Centre Odeon.
Quality Control: Gaming Forums
In the second part of a new series, Northern Soul’s gamers consider the thorny issues besetting the video game industry.
Button mashing brilliance: Northern Soul visits Arcade Club in Bury
Tucked away on the outskirts of Bury town centre sits a converted mill housing a unique gaming experience.
Ethical Gaming: Northern Soul chats to Pete Bottomley from White Paper Games
In 2014, a small independent games developer based in Manchester released its first game, a title dealing with the emotive and powerful issue of dementia.
Quality Control: Northern Soul talks open-world gaming
In a new regular feature, Northern Soul’s gamers consider the thorny issues besetting the video game industry.
Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong: the video games that changed the world
The 1980s was a transformative time for video games.
Review: Dragon Bros, Space Lizard Studio
New from Liverpool-based indie developers Space Lizard Studio, Dragon Bros is a gloriously old school platformer.
A guide to Pokémon Go
Is your child chirping on about Charizard? Is your bezzie boasting about battles? Are your gal pals glued to their phones more than usual?
An accidental history of football gaming: the era of evolution
The second part of Northern Soul’s Chris Holmes‘s history of football gaming begins under a momentous shadow which revolutionised gaming.
Freerange Comedy Festival at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
Comedy fans who can’t make Harry and Meghan’s big day at Windsor Castle can experience a ‘Royal Wedding’ with a difference in Kendal this May at Freerange Comedy Festival, hosted by Brewery Arts Centre.
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