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Sensible Soccer returning with “spiritual successor” Sociable Soccer

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Jon Hare, lead designer on Sensible Soccer and its follow-up Sensible World of Soccer, has announced the upcoming release of the “spiritual successor” to the beloved video game series, Sociable Soccer.“For years I have been planning the spiritual successor to Sensible Soccer,” states Hare. “Competing with FIFA and PES requires much more than just a […]

The Week in Star Wars – Loads of new footage from The Force Awakens, first look at Snoke, Abrams explains the lack of Luke Skywalker and more

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This edition of The Week in Star Wars is dedicated to Daniel Fleetwood. Rest in peace good sir, and may the Force be with you. #ForceForDanielIn this packed edition of The Week in Star Wars, we’ve got more new footage from The Force Awakens, new images and posters for the movie, a possible first look […]

The Week in Star Wars – New footage from The Force Awakens, new character posters, no more Slave Leia merchandise and more

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In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, we have new character posters, comments from Daisy Ridley and John Boyega about The Force Awakens and a rumour about Disney’s plans for the future of Slave Leia…J.J. Abrams previously said that there won’t be anymore trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but a new Japanese […]

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 more […]

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 – Whispering Willows

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Martin Carr reviews Whispering Willows…I am a fan of haunted mansions. Whether exploring a dilapidated annexe or traversing creaky stairwells, there is much to be said for anything which provides that type of locale. Whispering Willows may not have the heavy artillery, and perpetual moaning of the undead outside like Resident Evil. Yet there is […]

Don Bluth brings the Dragon’s Lair movie to Kickstarter

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For those of us that haunted the Arcade Rooms of the 1980’s there was one particular arcade machine that stood-out amongst the rest due to it unbelievable animation and graphics, that game was Dragon’s Lair by the great animator Don Bluth.  Unlike a normal arcade machine which relied computer generated images, Dragon’s Lair was the […]

Video Game Review – Heroes Reborn: Enigma

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Tai Freligh reviews Heroes Reborn: Enigma…If you’ve read any of my reviews of the new Heroes Reborn television mini-series, you’ll know that I am a huge geek about anything Heroes.  So when I saw that they had made a mobile companion game, I had to try it out.  Here’s the official game description:Since fans last […]

The Week in Star Wars – No more trailers for The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams on Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford, Gwendoline Christie and Kevin Smith discuss the movie, classic character rumoured to return

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Following last week’s bumper edition of The Week in Star Wars, it’s a slightly shorter version this time round. But we do have J.J. Abrams talking about the lack of Luke Skywalker and trailers while Kevin Smith talks about seeing “a chunk” of the movie and how it made him feel…After all the theories coming out […]