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Big Hero 6, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Game of Thrones among the winners of the 2015 VES Awards

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The Visual Effects Society held the 13th annual VES Awards in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, with Disney’s animated Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6 claiming six gongs and 20th Century Fox’s simian sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and HBO’s Game of Thrones taking home three awards apiece. Check out the full list […]

Rockstar “have got some ideas” for Grand Theft Auto VI

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It looks like Grand Theft Auto VI is in the works, with Rockstar Games president Leslie Benzies revealing that the developers have “some ideas” about the sixth instalment of the smash hit video game series during an interview with Develop. “We’ve got about 45 years worth of ideas we want to do. We don’t know […]

Fabled Nintendo PlayStation actually exists

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A Reddit user has posted pictures of what seems to be the incredibly rare prototype which Sony made for Nintendo during their brief partnership some 25 years ago. The prototype itself was created in 1990-91 as a disc playing add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, however, the deal turned on its head after Nintendo […]

Batman: Arkham Knight and A Trip Back to the Asylum

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With the release of Batman: Arkham Knight this week, Samuel Brace takes a trip back to the Asylum… This week, as Batman: Arkham Knight hit consoles and PC’s across the globe, I sat there unable to refrain from hearkening back to years past, 2009 in particular and the series debut game that so many of […]

E3: What We Want to See

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Mike Mc Grath on what we want to see at E3… With E3 less than 48 away I decided to poll our writers on what games they are most looking forward to seeing/want to see at this years event. Since I started writing this some of the games we wanted were announced or told were […]

Halo TV series “still in development” at Showtime

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Last year it was announced that Xbox Studios and Showtime were teaming up to produce a live action Halo television series with famed director Steven Spielberg helping produce the series. That announcement was made in May 2014 and it wasn’t long after that Xbox stated their intention to put the series out in Fall 2015, […]

Video Game Review – Tales from The Borderlands: Episode 2

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Martin Burgoyne reviews Tales from The Borderlands: Episode 2… Now I have never played a Borderlands game before, but thought they looked cool. All cel-shaded and very different to anything else out there. I think that all of this translates over so well as the games clearly have a very specific sarcastic style of humour. Don’t […]

Video Game Review – Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

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Villordsutch reviews Borderlands: The Handsome Collection… I can still recall buying my first copy of Borderlands: GOTY edition and instantly being impressed with the visuals and the dark humour that came stapled to it, so much so that when Borderlands 2 arrived in 2012 I actually went out and bought it on release day.  This was […]