The first episode of our new gaming series, Top of the Pile

30 May 2017

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Welcome to Top of the Pile, a gaming series in which the participants are forced to play a game at the top of the ‘just released’ list. In this the inaugural episode José Barbosa and Joseph Harper find themselves playing the Japanese visual novel game, Gakuen Club.

Video edited by Joseph Harper

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