January, 2016

• 13 January

  The 25 scariest 90s horror movies

  

  The best scares from the nineties The ’90s. When a horror movie won the best picture Oscar. When the Japanese sent their vengeful spirits worldwide. When the found footage phenomenon took off. When cool directors like David Lynch and David Fincher decided to give horror a new respectability, and new …

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• 13 January

  Looks like The Divisions delayed beta will kick off this month

  

  The Division (opens in new tab)’s beta will kick off some time before the end of this month, according to Ubisoft’s Uplay app. The beta was originally supposed to launch back in December for all Xbox One owners, though that got bumped back (opens in new tab) in favor of …

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• 12 January

  Pokemon Red/Blue-themed 3DS and 2DS systems let you party like its 1996

  

  February 27 is going to be a big day for Pokemon fans: not only does it mark the 20th anniversary of the series’ initial launch in Japan, but it also means a slew of special edition consoles, faceplates, events, and the re-release of Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue, and Pokemon Yellow …

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• 12 January

  John Boyega is back to keeping secrets for the much darker Star Wars 8

  

  We already knew Star Wars: Episode VIII had started filming, with Mark Hamill spotted last year in Ireland wearing full Jedi gear. Now we have more details from John Boyega, Harrison Ford’s best friend and ex-Stormtrooper. Speaking to Vogue (opens in new tab) Boyega says “we just starting work on …

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• 11 January

  Creed review

  

  Welcome to the punch… It’s nine years since the Italian Stallion hung up his gloves in Rocky Balboa, part six of Sylvester Stallone’s now four-decade-long boxing saga. Thankfully, in Ryan Coogler’s Creed, a smartly engineered spin-off, he doesn’t put them back on. Stallone leaves the punching to Michael B. Jordan, …

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• 8 January

  The best box art of 2015

  

  Best of the best We threw a lot of shade around with our Worst Box Art of 2015 lineup, so it’s only fair that we give credit where credit’s due to the best boxes of last year. Thankfully, narrowing this list down was much easier than the mind-rending onslaught of …

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• 6 January

  Target says Homefront: The Revolution is coming out in May

  

  The red dawn may break a few months sooner than expected. US retailer Target is reportedly selling pre-order cards for Homefront: The Revolution (opens in new tab) (via Xbox Achievements (opens in new tab)) that clearly indicate a release date of May 17, 2016 for the open-world guerrilla resistance shooter, …

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• 6 January

  Chris Evans talks character conflict in Captain America: Civil War

  

  One of the recurring themes of 2016’s superhero films seems to be ‘with great power must come great supervision’. Nowhere is this more evident than in Captain America: Civil War, which will see heroes divided on the issue of superhero oversight, and Chris Evans has been speaking with Cineplex (opens …

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• 5 January

  Amplitude review

  

  Amplitude feels like an album from the future. You are the conduit through which the visuals and audio flow, into each other, around you and through you. Mechanically, Amplitude is fundamentally similar to Harmonix’s other rhythm action output like Rock Band, in that notes fly towards you and you must …

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• 4 January

  Crackdown 3 is out this summer… but just the multiplayer mode

  

  Let’s pretend for a moment that I’m the most important person in your life. Well, remember when I said that Crackdown 3 is basically two games (opens in new tab)? I was more right than I, you, or my adoring, lucky parents could have known, because it looks as though …

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