Sonic the Facthog If there was an award for ‘most fanatical fans’, then Sonic’s followers would be in with a shout of winning it. They just love to pore over every little detail, not only of the games themselves, but every little scrap of pre-release footage and information, in the …
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Rate this app Your favorite gaming series is going mobile… uh oh. We’ve all seen perfectly good games chopped up to add cynical in-app purchases, overhauled with unnecessary new graphics, and–more often than not–saddled with unresponsive, unintuitive control schemes. If you’re looking for quality mobile games, your best bet is …
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Hans Gruber Die Hard (1988) The Character: One of the most charismatic and marvellously evil baddies of 80s cinema – the tower block-seizing German terrorist intent on destroying John McClane. The Beard: 80s Wall Street chic. Strokability: Sure, he’d likely you fling you out a 40 storey window shortly after, …
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Scream 2 (1998) The Moment: Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Dewey (David Arquette) watch a tape in a campus lecture hall, only to discover that it’s footage shot by the Ghostface killer of all of his victims thus far. Why It’s Great: The final shot of this grisly montage is …
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We’re all hot and bothered over glitches this week. We discuss our favorites, the ones that made it into games, and the ones that changed gaming forever. We also talk about a very sad dog, too, so you’ll want to listen for that. That dog. So sad. So… so sad. …
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Natural beauty GTA 5 (opens in new tab) is a game about violence, family, and the American dream. So, most of the images captured on the game’s virtual phone camera are… well, pretty unsavoury. We’ve all run over a pedestrian with a Star Tours bus, and snapped a selfie next …
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Something’s very wrong here For as charming as the Pokmon universe might be, there’s no denying that some things simply don’t add up. There are weird inconsistencies, strange occurrences, and plot holes that haven’t been addressed. Hell, if anything, even more have surfaced: Pokmon X and Y randomly added the …
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Making high-quality video games ain’t cheap. If you aren’t some massive corporation putting millions of dollars behind a project, chances are you’re scraping together anything you can to get a game finished and out the door. Such is life for the indie developer. The costs of making an engine from …
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In our regular polarising-opinion series, Total Film writer Paul Bradshaw asks, ‘Is it just me? … or was The Lone Ranger the best movie of last summer? Waterworld. Cutthroat Island. John Carter. All more successful than last summer’s $250m runaway train, The Lone Ranger . Worse still, everyone knew it …
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A version of this article originally posted February 21, 2013. Part man. Part machine. All ninja Once upon a time, the term cyborg called to mind man-machine combinations like Robocop. Those augmented humans boasted the firepower of tanks, but had the limited mobility to match. Flash forward to today, where …
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