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Return to Silent Hill – a look back at the original game

With Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills project being officially cancelled (opens in new tab), it feels only right to look back at the original Silent Hill and what made the series so great… Nobody in Konami’s horror ever solved their problems by punching out a caravan-sized boulder. …

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10 evil sci-fi governments

He loved Big Brother It can’t have escaped your notice that there is a general election around the corner. Yes, it’s almost time for the peoples of the United Kingdom to once more elect a ruling body who will guide us hand-in-hand to a brighter future. Possibly. But that got …

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Zulu Blu-ray review

No, not the Michael Caine classic. Orlando Bloom bulks up, slaps on a few tats and adopts an accent to play a South African cop in this middling post-apartheid thriller directed by Jérôme Salle. Bloom co-stars with Forest Whitaker as a baggage-laden duo investigating the violent murder of a white …

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Even with no mods GTA 5 can look amazing on PC

If all the GTA 5 PC mods (opens in new tab) fun hadn’t convinced you already, perhaps these astonishing images from Reddit user InterventX (opens in new tab) will have you throwing your console over your shoulder in disgust. Created in Director Mode with no mods, these screens were taken …

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The 10 best video game plushies you can buy

Soft to the touch If you like scaring off potential lovers by turning your bed into a sea full of stuffed animals, then have I got the list for you. Video game land is filled to the brim with critters ripe for shrinking down into huggable plushie form, so Ive …

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Batman Arkham Knight PC specs revealed

Rocksteady has announced the PC requirements for Batman Arkham Knight (opens in new tab)and while you won’t need Waynetech to run the game on the 23rd of June, you will need at least 6GB of RAM and 45GB of storage space. Recommended system requirements include an i7 3770 processor, last …

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8 creative alternatives to the video game life bar

Check the meter For as long as there have been video games there have been systems in place to ensure that those video games do not continue on unabated. After all, what good is a truly endless experience, an interaction without incentive? Once the initial novelty wears off, what then? …

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Stephen Kings A Good Marriage DVD review

Based on the riveting novella in his Full Dark, No Stars collection, this is Stephen King’s first self-adapted feature screenplay since 1989’s Pet Sematary. But King going to the movies is not always a good thing – he adapted and directed Maximum Overdrive from his short story ‘Trucks’, after all. …

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Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones review

The previous Stealth Inc. – or, to give its original, better title, Stealth Bastard – was a simple game about sneaking, Splinter Cell-style, around a facility full of robots, lasers, laser-wielding robots, and other things put there to make you dead. The difference, compared to most stealth games, is that …

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