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Another episode that’s light on action and big on actions, leaving you wondering what kind of mega set-piece the production team are saving their money for. Packed with revelations and decisions that seem likely to have huge ramifications later on, it’s a week of compelling two-handers and shifts in the …
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January, 2015
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1 January
A history of video game art styles
Can’t have the ‘games’ without the ‘video’… Not even the strangest-smelling games journalists are asking ‘how many floating points’ a game has any more. Obviously it depends how many you score (fnar), but I am so pleased to say that we’ve all got past the stage of citing polygon counts …
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December, 2014
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30 December
Emily Blunt turned down two major Marvel roles
Emily Blunt has revealed she turned down two major roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but has denied that she has been offered the chance to play Captain Marvel. “No one’s offered me that officially,” Blunt told Vulture (opens in new tab), when asked about the latter role, “so it’s… …
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22 December
Matthew Vaughn says 90% of his script made it in to X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Matthew Vaughn has been speaking to Collider (opens in new tab) about his decision to drop out of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, while also saying that around 90% of his script actually made it into the finished film. “I’d say 90%,” says Vaughn. “I mean, we worked on the …
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19 December
The 15 dumbest movie characters
Not the sharpest tools in the shed In cinemas vast back catalogue of memorable characters lies a category that separates the wheat from the chaff. For every confident swaggerer (think John Waynes entire resume) theres a dim-witted fool (think Ruprecht). Sure, these oddballs might not possess the charisma or wit …
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18 December
Sony cancels theatrical release for The Interview
In the wake of the Sony hacking affair, and terror threats from the anonymous group responsible, the studio has taken the decision to cancel the theatrical release of The Interview. Having seen a number of key exhibitors decide against screening the film in the wake of opening-day bomb-threats, Sony released …
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18 December
Minecraft: Story Mode coming in 2015 from Telltale and Mojang
Ok, try to think of the least likely source material ever for Telltale Games to adapt into an episodic adventure series… Did you actually guess or just read the headline? Sorry to spoil the mind-bending surprise, then, but Mojang and Telltale are collaborating to create Minecraft: Story Mode, an episodic …
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15 December
Assassins Creed Unity season pass owners get free game this week
Unless you haven’t been paying attention to the internet (opens in new tab) for the last month, you already know why Ubisoft discontinued Assassin’s Creed Unity (opens in new tab)’s season passes and pledged to give its biggest piece of DLC away for free to all owners of the game. …
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12 December
Xbox One outsells PS4 in November, ending a 10-month drought
Xbox One finally came in with a kiler c-c-c-combo breaker after 10 months of PS4’s retail dominance. According to figures provided by the NPD Group, Microsoft’s new-gen system was the best-selling console in the US and UK in November – the first time that’s happened in the US since December …
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11 December
Ewan McGregor is Jesus in first image from Last Days In The Desert
The first image has arrived online from Biblical drama, Last Days In The Desert, featuring our first look at Ewan McGregor as Jesus. The new film will focus upon “an imagined chapter” from Jesus’s forty days and nights in the desert, as he finds himself confronted by the Devil himself …
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