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Nintendo is not even close to giving up on the 3DS, according to investor briefing

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A lot of us were a little worried when we finally received confirmation that the Nintendo Switch would be a home console/handheld hybrid. It’s an awesome idea, of course, and the prospect of playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on-the-go is almost too much excitement to handle. However, what about the 3DS? Throughout […]

Video Game Review – Knee Deep

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Emma Withington reviews Knee Deep… As you settle in to your front row seat and choose how you spend those idle, thumb twiddling moments before the curtain rises – read the playbill? Get a snack? Tune the orchestra? – you are blissfully unaware of the consequences a simple ‘night at the theatre’ will hold. Knee […]

Exclusive Interview – Composer Michael Levine on creating Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’s famous theme ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody’

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We chat with Michael Levine about his work on Resident Evil: Biohazard… Composer Michael Levine is no amateur when given the task of creating an iconic theme for a project. Levine is the man responsible for creating the famous Kit Kat ‘Gimme A Break’ jingle that every person with a TV has heard. More recently […]

Fear in the Found Footage: A look back at some classics

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The original Blair Witch Project arguably created the found footage genre when it was released back in 1999. Telling the tale of a bunch of students striding out into the Maryland woodlands, the film offered audiences a new way of experiencing terror from the point of view of those being subjected to it, and they […]

Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope announces Apocalypse Now video game adaptation

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Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope has announced that it is in development on a video game adaptation of the classic 1979 Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now. “Forty years ago, I set out to make a personal art picture that could hopefully influence generations of viewers for years to come,” said Coppola. “Today, I’m joined by new […]

Stephen Gaghan to write and direct film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Division

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The upcoming film adaptation of the 2016 video game Tom Clancy’s The Division has found its writer and director in Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan. Ubisoft Motion Pictures announced the hire today and confirmed that Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain will both star, with the former producing as well. Ubisoft Motion Pictures CEO Gerard Guillemot expressed his excitement […]

NES Classic hacked to allow 84 games

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One of the biggest complaints people have had about the NES Classic (aside from the short wire length of the controllers), has been the finite number of 30 games pre-loaded onto the system. As it stands, Nintendo has no plans to offer software updates to load more games onto the system. That’s it. The NES Classic […]