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 …
Read More »BLOG Doctor Who In Six Lines Of Java
(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 …
Read More »Xbox One is the always-online, used-game-killing nightmare we feared
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 …
Read More »22 Movies That Were Weirdly Similar
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 …
Read More »The Best, Worst & Funniest Star Trek Cosplay
The Texas Chainsaw Picard Crusher, we salute. The Texas Chainsaw Picard, on the other hand? Someone, anyone, hold us. ( Via (opens in new tab) ) Boldly, Babealiciously Going Model Bianca Beauchamp has a reputation on the Cosplay circuit (she’s already modelled Supergirl to fanboy-baiting effect). And you can’t deny …
Read More »Top 7… Things gamers hate (and why they really shouldnt)
Haters gonna hate Gamers can be an emotional gang, prone to overreaction and superlative. If they like something, it’s the best thing ever and absolutely everyone needs to agree–and if they don’t, the people responsible can burn in the layer of hell reserved for pedophiles and CEOs. Sometimes they’ve got …
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I see from my Facebook feed that it’s one week until the release of Star Trek Into Darkness . I know this because Paramount seems to be posting a countdown photo each day. After all the various trailers and posters and TV spots hitting us over the head with the …
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