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Real violence hurts and has consequences, so winners don’t do punch-ups. Yet in even the weediest noob some ancient brain-part still finds fights exciting. Which is why videogames have, over the years, provided us with countless fantasy worlds revolving around a man punching another man. Few are as divine as …
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19 August
BioShock developers new horror game, Perception, is “going to f**k with you”
“When I was hit with this concept – the seed of Perception – I wasn’t planning on starting something up. But as soon the idea came, I was like – oh man, oh man, oh man. I need to find a way to make this happen.” Bill Gardner had been …
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18 August
Rainbow Six Siege gets swatted back to December, beta will continue as planned
Rainbow Six Siege (opens in new tab), Ubisoft’s competitive, team-based, eSports-focused twist on the Rainbow Six formula, has been nudged to December 1, a handful of months back from its previously-announced October 13 release date. Fortunately, the September 24 beta will continue as scheduled, though you’ll need to register (opens …
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18 August
Choose your own explosions in new Mad Max trailer
First Just Cause 3 (opens in new tab), and now the upcoming Mad Max (opens in new tab) game; Avalanche Studios is on a roll with these interactive trailers (opens in new tab). Rather than forcing viewers to sit through one minute after another in succession, these videos break norms …
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18 August
The ironically elusive Zorro Reborn is still alive, could shoot in 2016
It’s been all quiet regarding the prospect of a Zorro reboot over the last few months, but it seems that the project is still alive and kicking, with THR (opens in new tab) reporting that Lantica Media and Sobini Films are teaming up to finance the project, entitled Zorro Reborn. …
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16 August
Mirrors Edge Catalyst is fixing the combat one kick at a time
Back in 2009 (when all this was forests as far as the eye can see), Mirror’s Edge did a lot of things really, really well. Free-flowing movement. Actual parkour. A bright and colourful future. But there was one thing it didn’t quite pull off – guns. Sadly, when it came …
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14 August
Emily Blunt is a badass FBI agent in the new Sicario trailer
A new trailer has dropped for drug drama Sicario, in which Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin star as a trio of key players in the ongoing battle between Mexico’s drug cartels and the law enforcers attempting to take them down. As soon becomes clear, the rules between …
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14 August
All Halo menus, all the time – re-experience the sagas welcoming screens and music
The Halo series has some of gaming’s most well-known music, and while you could buy a copy of each title’s soundtrack, that’s not quite the same as hearing it when you first fired up the game that it was tied to, is it? Well, until humanity discovers time travel so …
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14 August
9 comics that should be TV shows
More than just superheroes… Comics have already taken over the movies and now they’re conquering TV. We already have a swathe of superhero shows based on books from Marvel and DC: Arrow, The Flash, Gotham and more. Then there’s The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman’s enormously popular zombie comic has become …
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12 August
Shenmue was born from Yu Suzuki defying his 3-minute limitation of arcades
You might recognize Yu Suzuki as the man behind Shenmue, but before his groundbreaking Dreamcast game, he was known as the creator of Hang-On, Out Run, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter and other arcade classics. In a recently-unearthed documentary from 1999, Suzuki shares where his first home console game came from: …
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