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Video Game Preview – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Ray Willmott previews The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt… It’s been a painful wait for The Witcher 3 considering we’ve known about its existence for high-end new-gen platforms before those platforms were even officially announced. But after an uninterrupted three hour long session with the game, the good news is CD Projekt RED have created something […]

Video Games Are Valid Entertainment, Stop Trying to Make Them Into Films

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Samuel Brace calls for an end to video game adaptations… Name a good video game to movie adaptation. Go on, name one. Name one bona fide hit with both critics and fans that’s source was a video game. Coming up short? That’s okay, it was an impossible task. There are of course some that are […]

LEGO Worlds arrives on Nintendo Switch this Friday, watch the launch trailer here

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With the release of LEGO Worlds on the Nintendo Switch set for Friday (8th September), TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have released a Nintendo Switch launch trailer showing the gameplay coming to Switch owning LEGO fans.  Watch this launch trailer below… LEGO Worlds takes players to a digital world where they can start their adventure […]

Video Game Review – Just Cause 3

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Kris Wall reviews Just Cause 3… Avalanche Studios are really staking their claim to be the masters of explosive entertainment. Following on from this years Mad Max, the latest entry into the Just Cause series takes their pyrotechnics to the next level with some of the most destructive gameplay I’ve ever seen in a video […]

Legendary nears deal for Pokemon live-action movie rights following hugely successful Pokemon Go launch

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Pokemon has been taking the world by storm following the launch of the hit mobile game Pokemon Go, and now it seems that the franchise could be heading back to the big screen, albeit in live-action form, with Deadline reporting that Legendary Pictures is nearing a deal with The Pokemon Company for the rights to a movie […]

Book Review – The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels

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Ben Rayner reviews The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels… The Commodore 64 was essentially my first console experience. Watching and waiting as those tapes worked their painfully slow magic before dinner was what made most of my evenings as a child that little bit more special. Games like Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon and […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #78 – Flying Shark

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With Ultimate’s Atic Atac, which was the last game looked at in the chart, our fortunes are continuing to run high as swooping in from Firebird at Number #78 is Flying Shark, the Taito coin-op classic from 1987. This is our second game in the countdown from Firebird so far – the first being Gyron – […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4… The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the STAR TREK franchise continues in this special event mini-series! The fate of two civilizations comes down to the ultimate face-off between Captain Kirk and the Klingons! As the bulkhead door closes on Star Trek: Manifest Destiny, the comic to celebrate the 50th […]