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Movie Review – Monster Island (2025)

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Monster Island, 2025. Directed by Mike Wiluan. Starring Dean Fujioka, Callum Woodhouse, and Alan Maxson. SYNOPSIS: Set during WW2, a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a deadly creature. The two mortal enemies must then come together to survive the unknown. The official synopsis for […]

Ranking Fox’s X-Men Franchise from Worst to Best

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Harrison Abbott ranks Fox’s X-Men franchise from worst to best… With X-Men: Dark Phoenix bringing the curtain down on the franchise, now feels like an appropriate time to look back on everything that Fox’s X-Men series gave us over the past two decades. Granted, there have been peaks and troughs. However, I maintain that the […]

Gamescom 2023 Interview – Billy Goat Entertainment on Parcel Corps

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Harrison Abbott chats with Billy Goat Entertainment about Parcel Corps, satirizing the gig economy and hearkening back to Crazy Taxi… A bicycle-courier sim might not sound like the most electrifying pitch for a video game, yet there’s more to Parcel Corps than just ferrying Amazon consignments around and loitering at fast food joints while they […]

Gamescom 2023 Interview – Sumo Leamington on Stampede: Racing Royale, Standing Out in a Crowded Genre and Balancing 60-Player Races

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Harrison Abbott chats with Sumo Leamington about Stampede: Racing Royale, standing out in a crowded genre, and balancing 60-player races… It can’t be easy trying to make a dent in the Kart Racer market when there is one (blatantly dominant) titan that has such a firm stranglehold over it. Indeed, Nintendo’s definitive take on this […]

Video Game Review – Disney Illusion Island

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Harrison Abbott reviews Disney Illusion Island… As much as certain gatekeepers would like you to believe that they’re born with an innate knowledge of their favourite cultural artefacts and/or fandoms, the truth is that everyone has to be introduced to an idea somewhere. You don’t exit the womb fully-versed in Tolkienian lore, it’s unlikely that […]

Eight Franchises We’d Like To See Added to Disney Speedstorm

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Harrison Abbott with eight franchises we’d like to see added to Disney Speedstorm… Although it’s only a couple of weeks old, Disney Speedstorm has plenty for gamers to be working their way through. There’s a single-player campaign that acquaints you with all of the basic mechanics, ranked online matches, a season tour mode, countless modifiers, […]

Epcot mascot Figment joins Disney Speedstorm roster

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A Floridian theme park mascot has been announced as one of the playable characters that will be coming to Disney Speedstorm at launch. If you’re not familiar with the upcoming title, it’s essentially an arcade racer in the vein of Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing, with the unique selling point being that it swaps […]

Simon Pegg to play Sirius Black’s Great-Great-Grandfather in Hogwarts Legacy

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Simon Pegg — star of the venerated Cornetto trilogy, the Kelvin timeline Star Trek movies, as well as every Mission: Impossible outing since 2006 — will soon be adding The Wizarding World franchise to his résumé of nerdy dream gigs. Today, it has been announced that the English actor, who is a known Potterhead, will […]

Why I Hate Being Told To ”Stop Watching Trailers”

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Harrison Abbott on movie trailers and spoilers… Has it ever occurred to you that a sizeable portion of modern movie trailers are almost deliberately calibrated to ruin their respective films? Sure it has! You’re a vaguely cognisant person with at least a few remaining brain cells. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read (Disclaimer: if […]