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COMPO Terry Pratchetts Truckers

Win! One of five signed copies of the DVD (opens in new tab) Animated by Cosgrove Hall, the makers of Dangermouse, Count Duckula and The Wind In The Willows, Terry Pratchett’s Truckers was the first of his books to be adapted for television. Now for the first time, you can …

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The 50 Greatest Community Movie References

American Psycho Episode: Season 3, Episode 12: Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts Reference: For reasons best left unexplained, Pierce walks into the library one day with one hell of a makeover – hair slicked back, pinstripe shirt and dressed in suspenders, it’s not long before Troy makes the obvious …

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Video game storytelling: The real problems and the real solutions

If any one element of gaming has dominated discussion of the medium over the last few years of this generation’s stubborn battle against the reaper, it’s narrative design and storytelling. With the rising prominence of indie developers through console and PC download services, as well as the increasing cinematic ambitions …

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Confessions of a scaredy-cat gamer

Dear ex-babysitter: Describing 1996’s Resident Evil as “a cool game where you play as a secret agent and fight snakes and stuff” to a 10-year-old kid was kind of fucked up. Especially when said 10-year-old a) loves video games, and b) is particularly sensitive to scary things. Laugh all you …

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The best mummies in video games

I want my mummy Zombies think theyre so hip these days, starring in popular TV shows and award-winning games. But mummies are so much more interesting when you think about it. They combine the terror of the lurching undead with magic! Think a walking corpse is scary? Imagine if that …

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GTA 5s sales are absurd, but dont defeat the industrys addiction to annualization

GTA 5 (opens in new tab) has, by my math, made nearly $2 billion since it released last month. That’s absurd. That’s more than absurd. That’s put-it-in-a-straitjacket absurd. That’s lock-it-up-in-Arkham-Home-for-the-Criminally-Insane absurd. That’s kill-it-because-otherwise-it’ll break-free-and-blow-up-a-hospital absurd. It’s absurd. Truly absurd. It’s so absurd that our office actually argued for like an …

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What game disappointed you the most? – Ask GamesRadar

Hello, dear readers! GamesRadar has an awesome community and we love hearing from you. We love it so much, in fact, that we created a show just for you! Our Community Manager Greg Henninger is going to sit down every week and answer your burning questions. This week’s questions come …

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50 Amazing Unmade Movies

The Defective Detective The Unmade Movie: Terry Gilliam developed his story, about a P.I. who must track a missing girl into a fantasy world inside her storybooks, in the 1990s with The Fisher King writer Richard LaGravenese. He’s been trying to make it on and off ever since. If They …

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