November, 2011

• 10 November

  Immortals review

  

  However bleak the future appears for Greece right now, at least it can comfort itself with the knowledge that the roost isn’t ruled by Mickey Rourke’s loopy king Hyperion, the big bad in Tarsem Singh’s stylised actioner. Here, the mad monarch has put the country to the sword in his …

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• 10 November

  Gaikai brings Dead Rising 2 demo to your browser

  

  Got thirty minutes to kill? Care to spend that time killing hordes of zombies in a number of wacky and gruesome ways? Thanks to a promotional partnership between Capcom and the game streaming service Gaikai, players can now relive Chuck Greene’s Fortune City adventures by playing a half hour of …

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• 9 November

  Report: Next Xbox codenamed Loop

  

  The Xbox 360 is coming up on its sixth North American Anniversary on November 21, making it two years older than the original 2001 Xbox was when it was replaced with something shinier and newer. Naturally, this means many are starting to openly question when and how the Xbox 360 …

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• 8 November

  Watch BioShock Infinites voice actors at work in Irrationals latest Making-Of video

  

  The last time we heard from BioShock Infinite voice actors Troy Baker and Courtnee Draper, they were chatting with series creator Ken Levine about the nuances of playing the game’s leading roles. In part two of Irrational Games’ ‘People Behind Booker and Elizabeth’ video series, we find out how BioShock …

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• 8 November

  More casting for Skyfall

  

  With production underway on new Bond film Skyfall , a bit of casting news has been announced through the film’s official Twitter feed, with Helen McRory and Ola Rapace joining the impressive ensemble. McRory is probably best recognised for her work on the Harry Potter films where she played Draco …

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• 8 November

  Of DLC and quests an interview with Going Loud Studios Ben Kane

  

  Earlier today we posted a trailer for DLC Quest, an Xbox Live Indie game that lampoons downloadable content. Since then, many of you have checked out the short, sweet game and loved it. Now, we’ve purchased the “Interview with the Developer” DLC pack, which we’re hoping gives some insight into …

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• 8 November

  BLOG TV Shows Not Hitting The Spot?

  SFX Blogger Steven Ellis is underwhelmed by the new crop of US telefantasy shows

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• 8 November

  The Top 7 Games that broadened our musical horizons

  

  Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

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• 8 November

  Metal Gear Solid HD Collection review

  

  Much like record companies in the late-’80s, game publishers have realized that they can mine their back catalogs by sprucing up a couple classics and putting them out in a single package. While some of these are obvious cash grabs, even those are often worth it for people who missed …

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• 7 November

  Jessica Chastain will play Princess Diana

  

  Some 14 years after her horrific death in a Parisian road tunnel, Hollywood has apparently decided that the time is finally right for a biopic of the colourful life of Princess Diana. According to Thompson On Hollywood , Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in Caught In Flight as …

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