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Exclusive Interview – Frontier Developments talk Planet Zoo’s Southeast Asia Animal Pack

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Harrison Abbott talks with Frontier Developments about Planet Zoo’s Southeast Asia Animal Pack… Although they have dabbled in a few other genres (including party games and space exploration MMOs), the bread and butter for Cambridge-based team, Frontier Developments, is surely the management sim. Ever since the early 2000s, they’ve been enabling people to realise their […]

Video Game Review – El Hijo – A Wild West Tale

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Harrison Abbott reviews El Hijo – A Wild West Tale… Within the sphere of indie gaming, there are a number of tried and tested genres that rarely. You know, those durable fan-favourites like the pixel-art platformer, the bastard-hard roguelike, and, of course, the ever-dependable: ‘’minimalist adventure about a big-headed child surviving hostile environments’’. For reference […]

Exclusive Interview – Frontier’s Brendon Morgan talks Jurassic World Evolution coming to Game Pass

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Harrison Abbott chats with Frontier’s Brendon Morgan about Jurassic World Evolution coming to Xbox Game Pass… Frontier Developments are something of an authority when it comes to management sims, having worked on many of the genre’s vintage franchises: like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon and Thrillville. Clearly, they have an affinity for creating virtual amusement parks, […]

Movie Review – Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

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Shadow in the Cloud, 2020. Directed by Roseanne Liang. Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale and Taylor John Smith. SYNOPSIS: In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military […]

Exclusive Interview – Looney Tunes Cartoons composer Carl Johnson on making music funny, honouring the past and licensing old songs

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Harrison Abbott chats with composer Carl Johnson… Carl Johnson is an Emmy Award-winning composer and orchestrator, known primarily for his credits on big-budget animated films (Wall-e, Monsters Inc.) as well as beloved children’s cartoons (Gargoyles, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series). His latest undertaking for Warner Bros. is the new Looney Tunes […]

Video Game Review – Timelie

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Harrison Abbott reviews Timelie… Let’s address the elephant in the room upfront: Timelie is not a typo. It’s the correct spelling of this isometric puzzler, which has apparently been named with the express purpose of vexing anyone who has to write about it. I mean, the first draft of my review is littered with squiggly […]

Video Game Preview – Stoneshard

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Harrison Abbott previews Stoneshard… It’s almost impossible to talk about Stoneshard without mentioning its formidable difficulty curve. Indeed, much of the conversation surrounding this Steam Early Access title has skewed in that direction, with the developers themselves egging on the discourse by plastering their social media pages with words like ‘’challenging’’, ‘’complex’’ and ‘’ruthless’’. Hell, […]

Hollywood’s Unhealthy Obsession With Movie Ratings Needs to End

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Harrison Abbott on Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with movie ratings and why it has to end… From a sanitised Die Hard sequel to an R-rated Star Trek, when it comes to ratings Hollywood is incapable of leaving well enough alone. The Dark Age of PG-13-ification Alien Vs Predator, The Expendables 3, World War Z, Max Payne, […]

Exclusive Interview – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Sound Editor on differentiating every gunshot, recording dog noises and ADR grunting

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Harrison Abbott chats with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum sound editor Mark Stoeckinger… From the outset, John Wick has garnered much attention for its impeccably crafted fight sequences, building up a rabid cult following in the process. Even those who aren’t as bowled over by the movies are forced to admit that – from […]

Exclusive Interview – It Chapter Two Make-up Designer Sean Sampson on creating Pennywise, Spider-Heads, and those Fortune Cookie Demons

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Harrison Abbott chats with It Chapter Two make-up designer Sean Sampson… It Chapter Two might not have quite recaptured the magic of its predecessor, at least as far box-office and critical reviews were concerned, but one aspect of the film that could not be faulted were its excellent practical effects. From the gory child corpses, to […]