Just because they spelt 'Bert' wrong.

Break Space Issue 5 by BreakSpace Issue 5 of Break Space magazine for the ZX Spectrum, covering Q1 2026.

Good news, everyone!

Bluesky is back just in time for the release of Break Space magazine Issue 5, covering all the latest ZX Spectrum software.

We have 2 stunning games on the cover - Go Go Bunnygun and Sweet Fightin'+2 - and plenty more inside.

Go get it.

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My Favourite ZX Spectrum Games of 2025 In my previous post I hinted that 2025 has been an immense year for new ZX Spectrum games. So what games have caught my eye? Well absolutely loads as it happens. Before I get to my own personal top…

Another new-ish (pseudo-recycled) post.

This time highlighting a bunch of really fun #ZXSpectrum games that caught my eye in 2025, along with my personal top 5 of the year.

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Call up their support line for a chat every afternoon.

Finally completed a no-death, no-rewind Free Solo run on #Cairn.

I don't play a lot of new games ( other than Speccy ones, obv. ) but this really hooked me.

Nothing about it on Sky News.

( Presumably because it happened 45 million years ago. )

A headline from ScienceDaily, suggesting that a 'massuve asteroid hit the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami'. While technically correct, the headline does not clarify that the event happened about 45 million years ago.

10/10 headline in my news feed today.

Make them all ghosts and they can just pass through the walls.

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Inside the Spectrum: How Sinclair Changed Home Computing Forever - Full Documentary YouTube video by Retrogamer Gen X

Hey all. Here is my newest documentary about Sir Clive Sinclair and his awesome budget ZX computers, the ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum; and his other products he invented as well.
#zxspectrum #zx80 #zx81 #sinclair #clivesinclair #retrogaming #classiccomputers #retrotech
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Neil Cicierega - Piss (Music Video) YouTube video by Cheesy Potatoson

Counterpoint, at 3:17 into this
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Played some hours with the excellent and incredibly tense rock-climbing game Cairn yesterday, and woke up with sore fingers from gripping the controller to hard. Immersion!

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Halo : Combat Evolved the Hedgehog

Half Man Half Biscuit - Bob Wilson - Anchorman [Official Audio] YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit

Had this song playing in my head all day because of this post.
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Break Space Issue 4 by BreakSpace Issue 4 of Break Space magazine for the ZX Spectrum

Issue 4 of Break Space magazine includes my article on the history of the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Compo, which I started (cough) 30 years ago! My first published article in forever, so please be gentle with me. :-) breakspace.itch.io/break-space-...

Something for the weekend?

How about a whopping 122 page brand new Speccy mag!

Loads of reviews of brand new games and features on Crash Live, Load Museum & the Crap Games Compo and loads loads more.

All for FREEEE! Get on it!

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A cool wizard blasts an off-page foe with his rainbow magic! It's the cover of BreakSpace issue 4, for all you Spectrum game review needs.

What the world needs now is ZX Spectrum games reviews.
And we have got you covered, World.

56 new games reviewed, a ZX Load museum interview, BASIC to type in, and loads more.
INCLUDING! The inarguable Game of the Year selection.

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#retro #zxspectrum #skillo

Happy New Year #ZXSpectrum fans!

So what was my Speccy Game of the year & which games made my top 5? Click below to find out.

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It is, and it does.

An lady brandishing a crossbow, riding into battle balanced precariously atop a giant armoured swan. It's the most noble thing you've ever seen, somehow.

Thought I'd check the Steam sale to check out whether video games these days are still utterly bonkers.
Yes. Yes they are.

Merry Christmas from everyone at BreakSpace HQ, to all the Spec-chums, #zxspectrum developers, #retro heads and even C-64 owners out there.

And especially to everyone who's helped make the best darn Spectrum #magazine there is. Well - Top 3 anyway.

All issues still free at breakspace.itch.io

Hear me roar!
Well, waffle on about ZX Spectrum magazines.
No actual roaring included.

And what fun it was.
Mother always said I had a face for radio.

I didn't realize their names were a pun for about 35 years.
What a revelation that was.

BreakSpace

The Spectrum homebrew scene is hopping - Check out BreakSpace magazine, where we reviewed 58 games from Q3 this year, taking us over 130 for the year.
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Well, we did it again.

Issue 3 of BreakSpace is out now, with more reviews of new ZX Spectrum games than we'd have thought possible.
Lots of great features in here - it's our best issue yet.

We're thrilled to have special guest reviewer Phil South on board as well.

Check it out.

You can pick up a little dude and drop him on another little dude. One of the greats.

Windows 10 users in the EU and UK, you can get free Extended Security Updates for a year just by:
> Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates. Click.
Scroll down to Enrol in Extended Security Updates (or similar wording).
Click on it.
Follow prompts.
Bingo, you're good for a year.

Star Citizen took like 5 years to get flight between surface and orbit working. You're way ahead!

Finally, I can sleep easy tonight.