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  • Bear With Me Review

    It was a wet, dark February evening. I’d had a long day chasing leads and was ready for a quiet evening. Little E crawled into the room and locked eyes with me. I could tell she was tired from brawling rummys all day so I let her rest and...
  • The Lego Batman Movie Review

    The Lego Movie charmed audiences back in 2014 with its mix of humor, heartwarming story and expert use of licensing from the companies decades-long history. It was choc-a-bloc full of blink and you miss it cameos, but front and center was Will Arnett’s Batman. His bad boy attitude, was...
  • Resident Evil 7 Review

      New to Out of Lives as a guest author is Ross Falconer, Dropping by to give us his opinion on Capcom’s return to the Resident Evil Franchise… When the first pieces of promotional material for Resident Evil 7 were drip fed to us, the reaction was a mixed...
  • Ellipsis Review

    Ellipsis is the seventh studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, it’s also an action-packed avoid ’em up from Salmi Games. For anyone still unsure, this is a review for the recent Steam release of the latter. What is an Avoid ’em up? well, it’s pretty self-explanatory so I’m...
  • Shu Review

    Shu is a 2.5D sidescrolling platformer not too dissimilar from the original Sonic games. With an emphasis on speed you play as Shu, a member of a species of bird people, who must race across 5 different locales before an ensuing destructive storm can catch up. Shu isn’t just...
  • Madden NFL 17 – First Impressions

    Originally posted by Michael Allen This are first impressions based on the 10 hour trial via EA Access on Xbox One and not a full review. There is something strange about sport games. They come out on an annual basis and we buy them despite typically very little change...
  • Batman: The Telltale Series (Episode 1) – Review

    Originally posted by Luke Kear The first choice in Telltale’s new Batman series is for the colour of your Bat-tech. It’s exciting stuff and will surely affect the game’s final episode, whenever that’s released. I chose the classic yellow, knowing this would make my playthrough more immersive than a...
  • Out of Heroes Episode 3 – Games & Comics at SDCC

    Although a little thin on the ground this year, games and comics did have a small but relevant appearance at SDCC 2016. See Stuart, Alex, and Scott meet to chat about Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2, Injustice 2 and some Marvel Comics news. Out of Heroes Episode 3 -...
  • Out of Heroes Episode 3 – Marvel TV at SDCC

    After a great SDCC, Alex, Scott & Stuart were excited to meet and talk all about the Marvel TV news coming out of the biggest comic-con this side of the galaxy. With news from Agents of SHIELD, the ground-level Netflix series’ and Fox’ new series, Legion, the team had...