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If there’s a lesson to be learned from the multiple recent successes in Foxborough, Massachusetts – in addition to confirmation that, unlike in Star Wars, the evil empire always wins – it’s that a single good season is never good enough. Now for the New England Patriots, read John Madden …

This is an entirely true story. One dark winter evening in 1997, bullies chased me through the housing estate where I lived in south Dublin, their caustic chants echoing down the lanes and upsetting the many wild horses that occupied the suburbs at the time. At the end of a …

Seven months. What takes that amount of time? For starters, seven issues of Official PlayStation Magazine. Most of a baby. A one-way trip to Mars, for goodness’ sake. But for Overwatch players everywhere, the time-frame means something else. From the first tease to the final reveal, it took Blizzard seven …

In many ways, Let It Die is harder than Dark Souls. Yes, that comparison gets made so often these days that it borders on meaningless – but in this case, it just makes sense. Grasshopper Manufacture’s PS4-exclusive, free-to-play action RPG exclusive clearly mimics the basic framework of FromSoftware’s legendary Souls …

2013 was a great year for horror. We got The Conjuring (opens in new tab). We got the gleefully brutal Evil Dead (opens in new tab) remake. We got the slippery, seductively insidious charms of Stoker (opens in new tab), and the surprisingly good, refreshingly straight-laced Child’s Play sequel, Curse …

There are plenty of gaming moments that set out to scare us, but only a few of them actually strike enough fear into our hearts to leave a lasting impression. From chainsaw-wielding pigs to murderous mutant babies, these are the tensest, creepiest and most terrifying scenes you’ll ever experience on …

The karambit duel in The Raid 2 is the best movie fight (opens in new tab) of all time. It has to be. In a film stuffed with incredible combat and martial art scenes, it’s the grand finale; the violent end to the movie’s violent delights. Director Gareth Evans starts …

For ages it was an obscure, niche series confined to Japan and a handful of hardcore otaku. However, the past few years have seen Monster Hunter’s popularity explode, and it has even spawned an entire new genre, hunting games that task players with stalking giant monsters to harvest their most …

Get ready for broken barrels, teleporting rocks and every national stereotype you can fit on to a 2D background. We present 14 perfect, far-flung locations from the Street Fighter series – it’s called World Warrior for a reason. Las Vegas, USA – Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior Balrog’s Las …

Unsurprisingly, The Bourne Identity is a solid action thriller with much to recommend it. But anyone who has seen the movie will tell you that the highlight is unquestionably the fight scene that goes down in the Paris apartment. Jason Bourne is still experiencing amnesia, so he and his new …