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Video Game Review – LEGO City Undercover

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Emma Withington reviews LEGO City Undercover… Super cop Chase McCain has returned to LEGO City to right past wrongs and take down escaped criminal Rex Fury…’again’. Serving under credit hogging Chief Dunby and joined by your best friend – of one whole day! – Frank Honey, who is very excited to show you his ‘special place’…It’s […]

Video Game Review – Knee Deep

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Emma Withington reviews Knee Deep… As you settle in to your front row seat and choose how you spend those idle, thumb twiddling moments before the curtain rises – read the playbill? Get a snack? Tune the orchestra? – you are blissfully unaware of the consequences a simple ‘night at the theatre’ will hold. Knee […]

Movie Review – Gold (2016)

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Gold, 2016. Directed by Stephen Gaghan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Bill Camp, Joshua Harto, Timothy Simons, Craig T Nelson, Stacy Keach, and Bruce Greenwood. SYNOPSIS: GOLD is the story of Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey), a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, desperate for a lucky break. Left with […]

Doctor Strange IMAX Preview Footage Report

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With Doctor Strange set for release on Tuesday October 25th, we were given the chance to check out a fifteen minute IMAX preview of select footage from Marvel’s fourteenth addition to the cinematic universe! Here’s Emma Withington’s report… ‘Expand your mind’ In 2013, the first 9 minutes of the film Star Trek into Darkness was offered up […]

Dark Horse announces The Witcher: Curse of Crows

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Dark Horse Comics and CD Project Red have announced a new five part digital comic series, The Witcher: Curse of Crows! Written by Paul Tobin, The Witcher: Curse of Crows follows Witchers Geralt and Ciri in a brand new story, set after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. With striking artwork from Piotr Kowalski, this looks to be a treat […]

Comic Book Review – The Fix #2

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Emma Withington reviews The Fix #2… From the creators of The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber), comes a story of the crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run things—and the sex toy that can bring them all down. Oh, and the hero is a drug-sniffing beagle named Pretzels. Bad people […]

Video Game Review – Lifeless Planet PS4 Edition

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Emma Withington reviews Lifeless Planet… Our astronaut’s mission hasn’t quite gone to plan, as he awakes after crash landing on a desolate planet with a concussion. This can’t be right, the planet was supposedly full of life and potentially habitable for humans. Where are the rest of the crew? What happened here? Is this even […]

Special Report – Flickering Myth Goes Tribal to Celebrate The Legend of Tarzan

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Waiting by the Woodland Ways standard in Oxfordshire, the air was still, peaceful, and atmospheric. Adam, one of the day’s instructors, brought me through the lone gate and away from any sign of civilisation – into the unknown. There were six of us in the group alongside the two instructors for the day. We were […]

Video Game Review – LEGO Worlds

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Emma Withington reviews LEGO Worlds… A meteorite plummets into the LEGO earth, sending studs scattering into temporary chaos. As the debris settles, a perfectly formed crater remains. The lost spaceman – let’s call him Nondescript Norman – finds his first tool, cooling off in the centre: The Discovery Tool. A whole new world of possibilities […]

LEGO Worlds Hands-On Preview

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Emma Withington reports from the LEGO Worlds preview… In a universe full of explorable LEGO chunks, dive – crash land – into a world made entirely out of LEGO, where dinosaurs, astronauts, dragons, and Peter Serafinowicz can coexist. Explore. Discover. Create. Together. After two years in Early Access on STEAM, LEGO Worlds is now on the […]