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Also known as the NAF, this long-awaited event should feature in the calendar of any airsofter. We take a look at what the festival is about and its main features!

Discover our top tips for practising your skills off the airsoft field! We advise on cardio training, being light on your feet and good communication!

The world of YouTube has opened up a wealth of opportunity for airsofters, allowing us to share our own battles, successes and occasional fails, and watch other people’s experiences too! The success of YouTube has spawned a plethora of different airsoft content creators, some with higher quality videos than others, and sometimes it’s difficult to pick the wheat from the chaff. Continue reading →

Image credit: BagoGames *This blog post may contain spoilers 2018 has been a massive year for video games, and in October we saw the release of the most anticipated game of the year, Red Dead Redemption 2. This game really does have everything you would want from an open world RPG (role playing game); from breath-taking scenery to immersive missions and, quite frankly, a ridiculous attention to detail. Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, the video game industry is continuing to grow at breakneck speeds and shows no sign of slowing down. Last year, it was expected that a total of 2.3 billion gamers worldwide would reach into their pockets and spend approximately $137 billion on games. Perhaps slightly more surprising was that, of those revenues, 50% was expected to come from mobile platforms – this includes smartphones and tablets. With more money, more media coverage and more technology than ever before, we can expect 2019 to be a blockbuster year for video games in terms of size, scale and visual advancements. Naturally, being airsofters, we’ve got an especially keen eye on the upcoming shooting games due to grace our screens; because if we’re not madly running around the battlefield with our airsoft rifles, we’re doing it in a video game! So, whether you’ll be teaming up with your airsoft pals or competing for bragging rights, here are some of our top shooter games due for release this year. Continue reading →

Airsoft outfits…some go casual, while others go all out. In the weird and wonderful world of airsoft, there are some equally weird and wonderful outfits to boot! Continue reading →

We love airsoft guns, that much is obvious. We also love video games, as highlighted in some of our previous blog posts. So, when we stumbled across the news that those two loves were being combined, we were like the proverbial kids in the sweet shop! Tokyo Marui has teamed up with companies Taito and Natsume-Atari to work on the GunArena airsoft arcade game, with testing on the machine set to be carried out this June (2018). Continue reading →

There is a plethora of action heroes that have been brought to us from films, books and video games who complete awe-inspiring feats and somehow come out of it unscathed. This got us thinking; if we could have any action hero standing next to us at our next skirmish, loaded to the gills with airsoft guns, who would we choose? With this in mind, we looked at a number of characters from over the years and contemplated their pros and cons to decide whether they would make a good teammate; which hero would you choose? Note – the action heroes we have picked here are all “normal” people – i.e. no superpowers! Continue reading →

[CC by BagoGames (Sonic the Hedgehog game menu screen)] Sonic the Hedgehog is probably one of the most iconic video game characters to have ever existed. The spikey, blue, anthropomorphic hedgehog has been the mascot of Sega since 1991 and is known for his exploits against the evil Dr Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik. But his backstory was almost very different, according to game designer Hirokazu Yasuhara and character designer Naoto Oshima. Continue reading →

Although it is yet to launch officially, some gamers have been able to play Battlefield 1 via EA Access and Origin Access, which has allowed them to root around the game for hidden Easter eggs. Continue reading →