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In this special episode, presenter Alice Taplin says goodbye to Double Tap and goes through her favourite moments from season 1.

Everyone's favourite Blue Hedgehog is 25 years old. On the day of his Birthday party at the San Diego Comic-Con, we celebrate his incredible legacy and what lays in the future for SEGA's most popular character

This week on Double Tap, an in-depth look into the augmented reality game that's taken the world by storm as we detail everything you need to get started with Pokémon Go as it gets rolled out worldwide!Presenter Alice heads out with comedian Bisha K Ali, already an expert on the game to find out what the hype's all about, whilst producer Jamie heads to the financial centre of the UK to find out why even Bankers have been caught up in the madness and to see where all that data is going with Daily Mirror Journalist Ryan Brown.

This week on Double Tap, Alice Taplin speaks to Rudolf Kremers about how his game Starlit: Colony brings retro gaming to the modern age.Then, reporter Sean Allsop searches the floor of London's MCM Comic Con for the best new retro-style game.Starlit: Colony: http://www.omni-labs.com/starlit-colony/ Comic Con's channel: https://audioboom.com/channel/mcmcomiccon

This week on Double Tap as politics enters a shambolic era in the UK and the world's economy is hit by Brexit - we look at games that deal with political turmoil.We speak to producer of the acclaimed 1979 Revolution:Black Friday game which transports you into the Iranian Revolution that changed the country forever and Democracy 3 - how you too can go into politics with morals and ideals... only to lose them as your scramble to survive the elections.

This week, Alice Taplin is away so producer Jamie Wareham is at the helm to explore the new Lego Star Wars game. We also send our reporter Simon Le Vans out to discover the rise of Graphic Novels.

This week, Alice is joined by Vexoid’s Henry Inskip to discuss all the biggest news to come out of E3 this week. We weigh the pros and cons of the new Xbox consoles before diving into how exciting the Playstation VR announcements were. In the second half of the show after a full E3 news update, we find out why everyone has gone gaga of Sony and Kojima's new collaboration.Check out the Vexoid Podcast on audioBoom here: https://audioboom.com/channel/vexoid

This week in a special edition of Double Tap, Alice speaks to Paul Amos voice of Jacob Fry and Jaz Deol voice of Henry Green backstage at MCM Comic Con.We find out what it's like to record a 1000 page multi-scenario open world script, the motion capture that powers the game and how true to the real history of victorian London the game is.

This week we visit Comic Con to find out how Twitter campaigns like #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend and #WeDeserveBetter are affecting TV and Game creators. Then, Alice speaks to Miika Tams, VP of Games at Rovio, about the legacy, success and future of Angry Birds after the movie’s successful run at Box Office.

This week we look at what could be the next big eSports game Overwatch and what it changes about the first person shooter genre. We chatted to Henry Inksip from nerd life website Vexoid.Alice also catches up with Play Rise digital to see how far the game has developed since EGX Rezzed as it hits consoles.Read more from Vexoid here: http://vexoid.com/overwatch-the-lore-behind-everyones-favourite-beta-title/