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Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Interview – James Valls, Senior Producer on Battlezone from Rebellion

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Villordsutch talks with James Valls, Senior Producer of Rebellion’s Battlezone… On Saturday October 8th I attended PLAY Expo’s 5th Anniversary at EventCity, Manchester.  My first port of call was to the Battlezone stand which was also showing off the PSVR, both of which I’ve been watching for a while.  Mainly for two reasons – the first it is that […]

Retro Video Game Review – Mercs on the Sega Mega Drive

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Mercs on the Sega Mega Drive… Back in the mid 80’s the arcade scene was beginning to develop some momentum, rapidly moving on from relatively simple titles like Space Invaders, Defender and Pac-Man.  As the technology improved games were beginning to develop a more cinematic and bombastic edge, obviously taking influence from […]

Video Game Review – Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

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Kris Wall reviews Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare… Looking beyond the sci-fi leaning of its new subtitle for a moment, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the 13th game in the series, a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of a franchise that has been split between 3 different developers to keep up its annual release cycle, it’s […]

Retro Video Game Review – Pac-Man on the NES

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Villordsutch reviews Pac-Man on the NES… Pac-Man is an all-time classic! Originally released upon the Japanese arcades in May 1980 from video game designer Toru Iwatani, this Namco game then went over to America and flew under the Midway flag come December 1980.  As any Scott Pilgrim fan will tell you, our yellow hero went […]

Retro Video Game Review – Double Dragon II: The Revenge

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Double Dragon II: The Revenge on the Nintendo Entertainment System… There is an extremely high likelihood that the vast majority of people reading these words have at the very least heard of Double Dragon.  The original arcade game, released in 1987, was a landmark title that revolutionised the way games in the […]

Retro Video Game Review – Super Metroid

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Super Metroid… Super Metroid.  Anybody who owned a SNES back in 1994 is probably nodding their head right now while thinking “yep…. there’s one of the greatest games ever made right there…”  Following on from the Game Boy’s Metroid II (1991) and continuing the series established by Metroid (Famicom – 1986), the third […]

Activision Blizzard Studios launched, Call of Duty movie and Skylanders TV series in development

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During BlizzCon, Activision Blizzard has announced that it is getting into the film and TV game, with the newly launched Activision Blizzard Studios developing a Call of Duty movie for release in 2017, as well as a Skylanders animated series, Skylanders Academy, which will launch next year. “Activision Blizzard Studios has the unique advantage of […]

Video Game Review – Batman: The Telltale Series Episode Three – ‘New World Order’

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Thomas Roach reviews Batman: The Telltale Series Episode Three – ‘New World Order’… New World Order’s story picks up a week after the previous episode, Children of Arkham. Harvey Dent has survived the horrific attack from the debate inflicted on him by The Penguin. Bruce is forced to come to terms with the revelation that […]

Video Game Review – Plantera

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Plantera… It’s all Cookie Clicker‘s fault. Since its release in 2013 we have seen a massive influx of the ‘incremental’ or ‘clicker’ – a fairly basic genre of video game that tasks (and I use that term loosely) the player to perform simple tasks to acquire some sort of in-game currency. The […]

First Impressions – Stable Orbit

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Andy O’Flaherty with some first impressions of Stable Orbit… “From the lead PC programmer that brought you Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Tomb Raider”, blurbs the teaser trailer for Stable Orbit, the new Early Access strategy game from Codalyn and Green Man Gaming. Perhaps that statement would be a bit more impressive or indeed relevant if […]