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Game: Star Wars: Republic Commando Song: Vode An Composer: Jesse Harlin Vode An (Brothers All) is the title screen music for the criminally underlooked Star Wars FPS Republic Commando. To me, it is an extremely well done war chant that captures the spirit of brotherhood and camaraderie pervasive throughout the …

Kingpin (1996) The Haircut: Somewhere between a comb-over and an overgrown mess. All the better for bowling with? Weirdest Detail: Just look at it all floaty and whispy, like mouldy candyfloss blowing in the wind. Even the hair seems to want to escape that scalp. Does It Work? Ernie should …

Guys. Guys. I don’t want to jump the gun and make a bunch of preemptive, hyperbolic statements, but I think Shadows of the Damned is going to be one of the coolest, craziest games of the summer. We’ve got a preview build in the office and in just the first …

Friday the 13th. Superstitiously the unluckiest day of the year. But in 1980, it proved to be particularly unlucky for a bunch of fictional summer camp councelors at the Crystal Lake resort, as a bloody reign of terror began in the first Friday the 13th movie. That legendary gore rampage …

We usually like to relax while gaming, but Demon’s Souls did something to us that made the experience unique – it intimidated us and filled us with anxiety, and yet somehow that was a good thing. We can’t explain it, but the game managed to bring out our inner masochist. …

Return of the Jedi (1983) The Moment: Admiral Ackbar realises what most of us already suspected. “It’s a trap!” Only In The ’80s: …would a prawn get the film’s best line. If It Was Made Today: Ackbar would speak in dodgy, borderline-racist patois. Three Amigos (1985) The Moment: Steve Martin, …

With that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that so many fans have felt compelled to fill in the blanks with their own works of fiction – and that some of those works have gone to some pretty dark places. Most of you have probably already seen Handre de Jager’s (opens …

Oh Nintendo, you wily, wily, tricksy sods. When will we ever be able to work out what you’re up to? Just as soon as you think you know where thehouse of Mariois going, is always pulls the rug out from under you and reveals that it was actually heading in …

The Orphanage (2007) Language: Spanish The Movie: Genuinely terrifying horror films are few and far between these days, with a reliance on cheap jumps and fake scares seeming to take precedence over set-ups of genuine menace. Not so Juan Antonio Bayona’s old-fashioned ghost story which sets about unravelling a tightly …

Dominic Monaghan & Evangeline Lilly The Couple: Worth including if only for the sheer WTF-ness of it! Lost co-stars Lilly and Monaghan managed to keep their off-screen relationship as closely guarded as the most top secret of storylines, with headlines only really emerging when the duo announced (and then retracted) …