(opens in new tab) Remember that scene when they blew up the White House in Independence Day ? Remember seeing the Statue Of Liberty’s head roll down the street in Cloverfield? They were huge iconic moments. Moments that set up their respective film’s threats; events which set the stakes as …
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Jim Carrey The Movie: Kick-Ass 2 The Distance: Carrey withdrew his support explaining that the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school changed his opinion on the film’s violent content. He posted on Twitter: “I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support …
Read More »3DS vs. Wii U – Super Smash Bros. Wii U Weekly (Episode 2)
The Wii U and 3DS versions of Super Smash Bros. are going to be very similar. They’ll both have the same rosters, the same moves, and the same gameplay, meaning… yeah, they’ll be pretty much the same. Some things will be different, however, and on this episode of SSBWUW (we’re …
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The Merc-with-the-mouth is back and better than ever. High Moon studios has a true boner-inducing love for Deadpool and it shines through in just about every aspect of his new very own game. Hacking and slashing your foes into tiny pieces while he shouts zinger one-liners never gets old. The …
Read More »RadarPlays – Earthworm Jim HD
This week’s old school edition may have some high definition polish, but the challenging gameplay is all retro. We booted up the XBLA version of Earthworm Jim HD, and found that even with the softened difficulty turned on, it still tested our skills. Eventually sense memory kicked in for at …
Read More »Want to shoot a guy in the nuts and kick his head off? Play Bulletstorm
Immature. Wafer-thin plot. Dumb bro game. Just a long-list of dick-jokes. These were some of the criticisms thrown at Bulletstorm (opens in new tab) when it appeared back in February 2011. Didn’t bother me. In fact, I really enjoyed all the creative swears and testosterone-driven plot. In a game about …
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(opens in new tab) Whilst we’re in Doctor Who limbo, waiting to find out who the next Doctor will be, how long the new season is, what John Hurt’s role is and the other members of the never ending Legion Of Questions, it’s easy to get bored. Admittedly things can’t …
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Microsoft’s public relations team couldn’t have been looking forward to yesterday’s reveal. Sure, the console-maker was likely ecstatic about the event it hosted–exactly one hour of focused, buzzword-filled discussion about Kinect, Game of Thrones, and the mysterious Xbox One. But the moment the cameras went off, things were no longer …
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Hercules 3D and Hercules: The Thracian Wars How They Are The Same: The title and the protagonist are the main similarities here. Thracian Wars i s the tag-team of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and director Brett Ratner, up against Hercules 3D ’s Kellan Lutz and director Renny Harlin. Johnson plays …
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Tributes to Ray Harryhausen, reactions to “Nightmare In Silver” and, er, George Osborne talking Star Wars in the latest Tweets Of The Week (opens in new tab) ! (opens in new tab) It’s a sad fact of up-to-the-second social networking that, more often than not, it’s the first place you …
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