July, 2011

• 6 July

  Jamie Foxx confirms Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained

  

  Jamie Foxx is to play the titular hero in Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated Western, Django Unchained . Tarantino reportedly met with Wild Wild West’ s Will Smith and Thor ‘s Idris Elba before settling on Jamie Foxx for the starring role. And while he was being offcially announced as the …

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• 4 July

  Snow White And The Huntsman to be a trilogy

  

  Snow White And The Huntsman producer Joe Roth has revealed that the Kristen Stewart-starring fairytale revamp is being set up as a trilogy. “It’s meant to be the first in a series of films,” he says. “This story will end, but there will be questions remaining for these three characters.” …

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• 2 July

  Transformers: Dark of the Moon review

  

  What’s the coolest thing about playing as the Transformers? If you said “driving around as a car and never ever being a robot” then you probably work for Activision. That’s right folks: in Dark of the Moon – Stealth Force Edition for the Wii you never play as Transformers in …

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• 2 July

  Blade Runner game would have ruined Gearbox Software, says CEO

  

  Being a Blade Runner fan is frustrating. Since its theatrical release in 1982, the cult sci-fi film has been used ad nauseum as a reference point to describe virtually any game that deals in dystopic futuristic subject matter, yet apart from Westwood Studios’ point-and-click adventure game back in 1997, Deckard …

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• 1 July

  Super Meat Boy meets Limbo in Rapscallion – download the free demo

  

  Rapscallion is a 2D physics-based platformer we recently got tocheck out as part ofa showcase forIndie Open House, a program created by GameSpy Technology tosupport up-and-coming indie developers. Clearly inspired by other contemporary platformers like N+ and Super Meat Boy, Rapscallion hopes to deliver that satisfying feeling of speedand momentum …

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• 1 July

  Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 review

  

  More than just about any other action franchise out there, Dynasty Warriors games are predictable – and we’ve all justifiably grunted and groaned about how similar and repetitive they are over the years. After this spring’s impressively dull and unrefined Dynasty Warriors 7, we were ready to throw in the …

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• 1 July

  Deathspank cures evil in The Baconing story trailer

  

  Hothead Games has served up a sizzling new trailer and website for its forthcoming Deathspank sequel The Baconing, revealing the mouthwatering circumstances behind the thonged hero’s latest quest to stoke the greasy, salty and succulent flames of justice. Crap, I knew I should have had breakfast before writing this… As …

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June, 2011

• 30 June

  NCAA Football 12 demo now available

  

  With a release just two weeks away, NCAA Football doesn’t have much time to win us over with a demo, but it’s trying its damnest anyway. With exclusive unlockables and four of the most popular teams in college football open to play, the just-launched slice of gameplay has us intrigued. …

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• 29 June

  Damon Lindelof explains pseudo-Alien prequel Prometheus

  

  Writer Damon Lindelof has spoken up about just how director Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi Prometheus fits into the Alien franchise. Originally pitched as a prequel to the first Alien movie, Prometheus changed when Lindelof was brought in to perform a rewrite on the script. “It started as an Alien prequel,” …

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• 29 June

  Paul WS Andersons The Three Musketeers gets a second trailer

  

  A second trailer for The Three Musketeers has hit the web. Paul WS Anderson’s The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom, to name a few. This new take on the classic Alexandre Dumas novel follows a young D’Artagnan (Lerman) who …

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