December, 2015

• 7 December

  Bring Christmas to Fallout 4 early with only 185 programmable speakers (oh God)

  

  We’ve already seen some impressive music creation in Fallout 4, like these pressure plates that play the Mario theme (opens in new tab) when you walk over them. This, however, is a new level of crazy building achievement from Daniel Cullinane who’s programmed 185 speakers to play Carol of the …

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• 7 December

  Minecraft finally arriving on Wii U next week

  

  The blocky world builder has taken its time coming to Nintendo but Minecraft (opens in new tab) will finally be available on Wii U from December 12th. Announced on Mojang’s Blog (opens in new tab), the game will be available on the Nintendo eShop and come with multiple content packs. …

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• 5 December

  Doctor Who S9.12 Hell Bent review

  

  After the formally innovative genius of “Heaven Sent”, “Hell Bent” is a slightly disappointing conclusion to the series. Though it has many great moments, it’s a little on the talky side, and feels like it could have done with a bit more blood and thunder. Plus not for the first …

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• 4 December

  Steven Spielberg says hell never replace Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones

  

  Though our favourite film characters are immortalised on screen, the same doesn’t hold true for the actors who portray them. Just as Daniel Craig will not always be James Bond, a new actor may one day don Indiana Jones’ infamous fedora… or will he? Steven Spielberg has been doing interviews …

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• 3 December

  Wow, such explosion, many meme: how to unlock Doge Mode in Just Cause 3

  

  Just Cause 3 (opens in new tab) from Avalanche Studios is brimming with content – there’s plenty to see and do on the island nation of Medici, and now you can add “referencing memes from 2013” to that list. Doge Mode adds brightly colored, poorly-spelled, and grammatically-incorrect comic sans words …

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• 2 December

  Victor Frankenstein review

  

  It’s alive! Just… It’s no good griping that Max Landis’ (Chronicle) riff on Mary Shelley’s classic text throws in backstories and a love story and a crazed chimpanzee called Gordon – cinema’s most famous Frankenstein adaptations, by Universal, Hammer and Mel Brooks, are equally patchwork affairs, as befits a source …

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• 1 December

  The case for putting an assassin in the TARDIS

  

  Miss Oswald has faced the raven and embarked on her final adventure, which leaves a Companion vacancy in the TARDIS. The Doctor clearly has some business he needs to settle back home, but once that’s sorted he’ll be looking for someone new to rattle around the universe with. Given New …

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• 1 December

  Keeping Khans identity secret in Star Trek Into Darkness was “a mistake” says Lindelof

  

  No-one saw this twist coming. It’s been two years since the release of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, a sequel that incensed fans before it even opened due to the shady marketing ploys adopted by its creative crew. Remember, no-one would admit that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan? Time, …

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• 1 December

  The deadliest enemy in Bloodborne right now: emergency maintenance

  

  If you’ve been planning to tackle Bloodborne (opens in new tab)’s Old Hunters DLC (opens in new tab) with a friend like we did (opens in new tab) on Twitch last week (in case you missed the show), you might want to put those plans on hold. The game’s servers …

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• 1 December

  Star Wars Battlefront and Uncharted PS4 bundles $50 off for the holidays

  

  Missed all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday (opens in new tab) PS4 discounts? Sony’s rolling out a second round of substantial savings for last-minute holiday shoppers, cutting $50 off the US price tags for its Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab) and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (opens …

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