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Will You Be At WorldCon In London This August?

A little reminder: the World Science Fiction Convention returns to London after 49 years. Sign up now… As you may know, the World Science Fiction Convention (this year dubbed Loncon ) is going to be held in London this August – for the first time since 1965. The guests of …

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Kirby: Triple Deluxe review

Try to ignore the stigma attached to this phrase: Kirby: Triple Deluxe is a straight platformer. It represents everything you’d expect from the genre, sticking two pink, sugar-coated fingers up at the rest of the gimmick-obsessed industry. Kirby walks, runs, and jumps through beautiful, vibrant 2.5D worlds so happily, you …

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Top 7 Game features that no one asked for

Who, exactly, asked for this? You and I don’t run multimillion-dollar video game companies. We’re not fully cognizant of all the incredibly hard work, nerve-wracking deadlines, and unforeseen costs that go into making amazing games; we simply want to play and enjoy the finished product. But even if we’re not …

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Patema Inverted review

Kirsten Dunst’s 2012 mirror-world movie Upside Down was slammed in the US, but Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime fable makes nifty work of a similar world-inverted motif. At heart it’s a coming-of-ager about two teens and their oppressive elders, with the clever spin that youngsters Age and Patema occupy alternaworlds with opposing …

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9 indie games shamelessly inspired by retro ancestors

Party like it’s 1989 Blah blah indie games. Blah blah, cheap NES game rip-offs. Weve all heard the tedious battlecry of the anti-indie backlash by now. Its usually a load of old rot; an uninformed nonsense-rant that takes the pixelart aesthetic as a jumping off point and then looks no …

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30 Most Evil Movie Computers

SID 6.7 – Virtuosity (1995) The Evil Computer : A virtual reality serial killer, SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is being targeted by Lt Parner Barners (Denzel Washington). Later, of course, he transforms into a regenerating android, which means he has even more power than before. But that also makes him …

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The most badass video game mottos and speeches

Let me begin Back in my college days, I was forced to take a speech class in order to complete my degree. Being that I didnt have any great fear of public speaking, I figured this would be a simple class I could easily breeze through. The professor I ended …

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