Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin is a freelance writer, living in Derby UK with his wife and his player 3. When time allows he likes nothing more than losing himself in a multi-hour gaming session. He likes most games and will play anything but prefers MMO's, and sandbox RPG's.
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Shortest Trip To Earth Early Access Preview

Imagine you’re rather happily and blissfully heading through the mysterious depths of outer space, all tucked up warm and cosy in your cryosleep pod, when a warp drive malfunction drops you out of warp into unknown space. The dutiful AI…

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Heliophobia Gltichin’ Horror Review

The night of Halloween may be over, but the pumpkins on your front door step haven’t rotted, and there’s still enough candy in your house to sink the Bismarck, so there’s still more time to play some scary horror games.…

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Train Valley 2 Gets Large Electric Update

If you’re familiar with Train Valley 2 the train management and puzzle game developed by Indie Studio Flazm then you’ll be interested to know that a few days ago, they released their first content update introducing electricity. Train Valley 2…

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Firefly Online – Where is it now?

If you can remember when Joss Whedon was famous for creating the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series and not the Avengers, then you’ll likely also remember his other great series Firefly. Firefly told the story of the ragtag crew…

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Viper Trails DLC Released for Zero-G Racer Antigraviator

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Cybernetic Walrus have recently released the first DLC for their hyper-fast racing game Antigraviator. Antigraviator is an online multiplayer and single player racing game set in the far future where anti-gravity racing has become a…

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Iris.Fall Demo Preview

I’ve recently got my hands on a 10 minute demo of the shadow and light based puzzle game Iris.Fall. Developed by Next Studio, Iris.Fall is the tale of a young girl, who after waking from a mysterious dream, follows a…

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Shortest Trip to Earth Now on Steam Early Access

Shortest Trip to Earth developed by Interactive Fate is now available for purchase from Steam Early Access, at $19.99 and a 15% discount for the rest of this week. There’s a new trailer to celebrate this which can be seen…

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HyperParasite Kickstarter Begins October 10th

A couple of weeks ago we brought your attention to a new rogue twin-stick shooter called HyperParasite developed by Indie Studio Troglobytes Games. Not only is there a pre-Alpha release on Steam and itch.io, but they’re also starting their Kickstarter…