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The Secret World devs on keeping subscription fees

The Secret World has been called the last of the subscription-based MMORPGs. The game severely underperformed after its July release, defying the hopeful expectations of developer Funcom, and sold only 200,000 copies as of the end of August. Several Funcom employees spoke with Eurogamer in a post-mortem, touching in part …

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Famke Janssen hints at X-Men return

Following hot on the heels of Patrick Stewart’s teasing comments last week, Famke Janssen has also suggested that an X-Men return might be on the cards for her character, Jean Grey. The last we saw of her, Jean was lying dead in the arms of Wolverine, having been almost entirely …

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Doctor Who “The Power Of Three” Final Ratings

The final consolidated viewing figure for Doctor Who “The Power Of Three” (which includes people who recorded it and watched it with the first week) has been released, and it’s excellent news again… (opens in new tab) The final viewing figure for the slow invasion comes in at 7.67 million, …

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XCOM FPS may become downloadable third-person squad shooter

While XCOM: Enemy Unknown is looking good, its Cold-War-era first-person shooter cousin may be encountering some turbulence. Several months of quiet from publisher 2K followed XCOM’sdelay in May out of 2012. Earlier this week,Kotakupublished screenshots and other information reportedly taken from a customer survey indicating the title has switched to …

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The Hobbit gets a new Dwarf-heavy poster

The Hobbit has continued its recent publicity push with a brand new poster featuring a full complement of Dwarves, clocking in at 13 in total. We don’t know what the collective noun is for dwarves, but there are a lot of them. Ginger ones, grey ones, handsome ones… you name …

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Patrick Stewart to return to the X-Men universe?

Having run aground slightly toward the end of the noughties, the X-Men franchise is in rude health once more, with long-awaited sequel The Wolverine finally making its way towards cinemas, and X-Men: Days Of Future Past also in the pipeline. All this success seems to have piqued the interest of …

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Quentin Tarantino will cameo in Django Unchained

[brightcove]1688476237001[/brightcove] Having shied away from an on-screen appearance in his last few films, Quentin Tarantino is set to return to the spotlight in Django Unchained , in which he is set to make a cameo. TV star Rex Linn has revealed that QT was so enamoured with his character Tennessee …

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Steven Spielberg considering Ben Whishaw for Robopocalypse

The casting rumours surrounding Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi spectacular Robopocalypse are coming thick and fast, with Ben Whishaw the latest name supposedly on the Beard’s wish list. The film is based on the book of the same name by Daniel H Wilson, which is set in a future where a …

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