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John Wick: The Best Assassins in the Franchise

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Olly Dyche on the best assassins in the John Wick franchise… Assassins in movies are without a doubt, awesome. No matter their skill, or specific way of killing, assassins tend to be incredibly fascinating characters, and there is no franchise that shows the breadth and intricacy of the assassin underworld better – nor cooler – […]

Super Mario Bros: The Best Characters in the Marioverse

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Olly Dyche ranks the best character in the Marioverse… Super Mario Bros. is without question the biggest and most popular video game franchise on the planet. Almost everyone has either played a video game starring the famous plumber, or have at the very least have heard of the franchise, its protagonist Mario, and iconic characters […]

The Best Super Mario Ball Bearing Games

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Ahead of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Andrew Brassleay delves into the best Super Mario ball bearing games… Mario might be one of video games’ mightiest characters, but the world’s most renowned fictional plumber also has a home in three-dimensional entertainment. Ball bearing and marble games released under the Super Mario brand have been available […]

One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall: The Best Fights of Optimus Prime and Megatron

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Ricky Church on the greatest fights between Optimus Prime and Megatron… For over 35 years, the Autobots and Decepticons have waged a constant war against each other throughout the Transformers franchise. No matter what new iteration, whether it be television, comics, video games or feature films, these two factions are always at each other’s throats as […]

Ten John Wick-Inspired Movies For Your Action Fix

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Hasitha Fernando dives into ten John Wick-inspired movies to give you your action fix… Every couple of years an action movie would come along that instantly becomes a gamechanger in the genre and the template to be followed for the next decade or so – John Wick was such a film. Released in 2014 the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #49 – Tetris

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After the adrenaline, wheelie filled world of Enduro Racer we need a come down, and what better game to take with us to our quiet corner than the one resting at Number #49 in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is Alexey Pajitnov’s classic Tetris. Tetris is the game that quite possibly everybody on the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #19 – Back to Skool

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No longer being involved in the macabre, trap dodging, kill or be killed Spy vs Spy we rapidly leave the area in our plane and look towards our next game, hoping that life in our next Your Sinclair Top 100 entry will not be so brutal. However looking at No.#19 it appears we’re not escaping […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #82 – Hyperaction

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From one strategy game to another, as we arrive at Hyperaction, No. #82 from Silversoft.  A puzzle game that upon first appearance you may despis, but after a few further rounds, this could become one of your firm favourites. Hyperaction was created by Iain Christopher Hayward, Jay Derrett back in 1984. Initially Hyperaction seems like a […]

The Most Incredibly Annoying Movie Characters

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Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the most annoying movie characters ever… Cinema at its best delights and enthrals. For that to work, we need engaging characters we can get behind. There’s a problem though. Sometimes for an array of reasons, some characters just end up being incredibly annoying. It can be the cherry on […]