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Akiba’s Trip Hellbound and Debriefed (PS4)

I’ve never touched any of the newer Akiba’s Trip games (although I do own them….stupid backlog!) So I’m writing this as someone who never touched the original PSP game but was interested in the series. Akiba’s trip is quite a longstanding series, the original Akiba’s Trip came out way back in 2011 with the most ..

Kingston microDuo 16GB Review

Once again, I would like to thank Kingston for providing me with the opportunity to review this piece of hardware. Today what I am going to be looking at is a new product, namely the Kingston DataTraveler microDuo, specifically the 16GB version. Now you may be thinking, “hey you reviewed a USB drive not long ..

Dave and Dan @ Play Blackpool

Sunday just gone, myself and Dan LV from @CCLComputers made the trek westwards towards Blackpool for the now annual Play Blackpool retro gaming event hosted by http://www.replayevents.com. The event itself is like a mini version of the more expansive and also annual Play Expo held in Manchester. Which you can read about my experience of last years ..

DavePlays @ Play Expo 2017

Manchester Event City once again played host the north’s largest gaming convention just over a week ago. The Play Expo brought the biggest and best that gaming has to offer, with both retro and current gen gaming showcased throughout the vast halls. With hundreds of games on tap available and ready to play. This meant ..

Ducky Shine 3 – Mechanical Keyboard Review

Ducky are now a well-known brand in the now saturated mechanical keyboard market, but despite only arriving to UK shores early last year, Ducky have gone on to become one of CCL’s most popular keyboard brands and with new models released this year, and even newer models expected in the next month they are ..

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Petya Ransomware’s encryption has been defeated (for now)

It seems to be almost a weekly, if not daily, occurrence that a new piece of hideous cryptoware hits the internet. One such piece called Petya was released into the wild only a short while ago, and was one of the nastier implementations I had seen in a while. Petya imitates a CHKDSK scan, something ..