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OK, results may vary on this one. The year is 2004, and I’m late to the PlayStation 2 party (blame: EverQuest). My roommates and I are poor, finishing up our last year at Ohio State, and poor. We live in a cinderblock mansion. Three floors of verticality; the living room …

Michael Sheen is Brian Clough The Real Person: Brian Clough was the title-winning manager of Derby County when he took on an ill-fated assignment at Leeds United, lasting only 44 days. He bounced back by winning back-to-back European Cups with Nottingham Forest. The Actor: Michael Sheen is the Mr Benn …

Discover the new YA novel from Holly Black, bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles Meet The Coldest Girl In Coldtown (opens in new tab) … Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator …

The rise of “cli-fi” – author Kate Kelly discusses science fiction’s take on the environment Kate Kelly is a marine scientist who’s penned her first novel, Red Rock (opens in new tab) , based around climate change… with an extraterrestrial angle. The book is out on Thursday 12 September and …

Game Of Thrones and The Avengers scoop coveted genre awards (opens in new tab) The winners of the 2013 Hugo Award and John W Campbell Awards were announced this week in a ceremony hosted by Paul Cornell. And here they are in a handy list: Best Novel : Redshirts: A …

Praise be to Zod! Geez, this list is a wee bit tough to write. For one thing, not everyone who reads it will actually believe it exists. Sure, the theist crowd will get a kick out of skimming through, but what about those ‘article Atheists’, or the ‘list-based Agonistics’? Will …

HIKE! No, seriously, hike Madden 25 is officially here, and if you go online, you’re guaranteed to see a whole lot of Seattle, San Francisco, Green Bay, and Washington. The teams change, but bandwagon fans always stay the same, and they love their powerhouses. Fortunately, you don’t have to use …

Adam West, Joss Whedon and more weigh in on the Ben Affleck debate and JJ live-tweets Into Darkness in the latest Tweets Of The Week (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) If there was one announcement guaranteed to send Twitter into a tizzy, it was the news that …

You again!?! Lets just get this out of the way: We love video games. Theyre fun, challenging, and have even stirred our emotions from time to time. That said, as weve noted before, were a little tired of being murderers in games, particularly when its the same type of dude …

This is the story of the bravest cowboy who ever lived. Or samurai. Or both. Lucas, Henry, and Greg team up to tackle this bizarre PS1 game, which tells the tale of a sword-wielding sheriff and his adventures in the Old West. Expect much slashing of samurai midsections, as well …