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October, 2015

  • 5 October

    Beasts Of No Nation review

    Machetes kill… Netflix’s first foray into feature film distribution is no easy sell: a lengthy, bloody chronicle of one child soldier’s dehumanisation, shot in Ghana with only one star name propping up a cast of novices and unknowns. Kudos to Cary Joji Fukunaga, then, for turning a 2005 novel by …

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  • 3 October

    Most modern racing games suck. Heres what theyre doing wrong

    Road rage Have you ever driven a go-kart? It feels fast, doesn’t it? Really fast. It’s exciting and fun and you love the feeling of the tyres struggling for grip on the smooth track surface, screeching as you corner. You grip the wheel so hard, and every bump in the …

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  • 2 October

    More Terminator now “permanently on hold”

    Barely recouping its budget at the US box office and failing to strike a chord with critics, Terminator Genisys had a rough ride this summer. And by the looks of this latest piece of intel, buried deep in an article from THR, the future of the franchise doesn’t look promising. …

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  • 2 October

    Original Burnout devs teasing a “spiritual successor”

    Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry are two former members of Criterion, the studio behind Burnout. They left a while back to form a new studio called Three Fields and have finally started talking about what they’re working on. Unsurprisingly, there’s a driving game in there. A crashy one: Two things. …

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  • 1 October

    Meet the blocky heroes of Telltales Minecraft: Story Mode

    Minecraft: Story Mode (opens in new tab) was always bound to feel a bit different from its source material – it is, after all, a narrative-driven Telltale game inspired by an open-world sandbox game with little explicit story to speak of. But if you were hankering to get a taste …

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  • 1 October

    Naughty Dog lied to us in The Last Of Us trailer & might do it again with Uncharted 4

    There was a moment towards the end of The Last Of Us (opens in new tab)’ pre-release story trailer that looked a lot like it was giving the end away: In hindsight, it seems an obvious slight of hand but it still caught me out and left me thinking that …

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September, 2015

  • 29 September

    Mark Millar talks Wolverine 3; says comic-book continuity is boring

    Mark Millar has been talking about what we can expect from the final Wolverine standalone movie, but has warned fans not to expect it to sit perfectly within the construct of the wider X-Men universe. Why? Because according to Millar, comic-book continuity is “boring”. “Honestly, the continuity stuff is the …

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  • 29 September

    Hitman has six levels, two price options, and three months of updates

    Agent 47 will stalk the streets of Paris, Sapienza, and Marrakesh starting on March 11, 2016, Hitman (opens in new tab) developer IO Interactive announced in a post on its official website (opens in new tab) today. The developer also revealed more about how its live update plan (opens in …

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  • 25 September

    Why I Love: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradises cheesecake

    The cheesecake in Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise is a wonderful thing. It is, perhaps, my favorite thing in the game, because of what it represents. All of TiP’s creativity, depth, charm, and weirdness can be summed up by that one slice of delicious dessert. But let’s back up a …

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  • 25 September

    Men In Black reboot sheds Will Smith

    Sony is planning to reboot another of its most lucrative franchises without one of its original stars. THR reports that the team behind Men In Black is pushing forward with a brand new cinematic franchise based on the popular ’90s movies about government agents tasked with policing the extraterrestrials hiding …

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