Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is the most connected Metal Gear ever made, so you may not be surprised that it’s encountered some of the standard launch day difficulties. Unexpected “server connection issues” have led Konami to deactivate or pare down some of the …
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Focus Features has released the first trailer for director Tom Hooper’s real-life drama The Danish Girl starring Eddie Redmayne as artist Einar Wegener, the first person to ever receive gender reassignment surgery, and Alicia Vikander as her wife Gerda. Based on the novel by Tom Eberhart, the film chronicles Wegener’s …
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The first trailer for Nicolas Cage’s thriller Pay The Ghost has surfaced online, starring the former bat-eater as a family man whose loses his son at a Halloween parade. The real horror for Cage’s character Mike Cole isn’t the ghouls and ghosts banging on his door demanding candy, but the …
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Lives less ordinary… “I’ve no idea how to tell this story,” says Thomas Mann’s Greg as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s sweetly sarcastic, deeply felt adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ YA novel begins. And as the alarm marked “unreliable narrator” howls none too subtly, a sense of relief also kicks in. Too many recent …
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Fallout 4 (opens in new tab) isn’t out until November, but you can start building your character right now this work-in-progress Fallout 4 character creator. Go ahead, meticulously plot out (opens in new tab) your ideal build of stats and perks, I won’t judge (because I’m too busy doing the …
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Right, I’ll get straight to the point. Xur has revealed the first set of Exotic weapons and armour for the Taken King expansion, which is landing next month on September 15. He has done so, like a massive, no-filter, breakfast-touting bore, on Instagram. Mercifully none of them come with a …
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Quentin Tarantino says new film The Hateful Eight will challenge the notion of white supremacy, characterised as it is by the racial tensions present in post-Civil War America. And while the director didn’t plan it this way, he concedes that the debate couldn’t be more timely given the current climate …
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Considerate pacing is one of the most basic principles of good campaign design – basic enough, even, that a braying ignoramus like me can summarise the ins and outs without once (OK, twice) reaching for Wikipedia. Is the player a buzzing, bloody mess of adrenaline, thumping his chest astride a …
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Nasty business here with reports that the Boston Police Department has arrested two armed men heading to the Pokémon World Championships. According to FoxBoston.com (opens in new tab), two Iowa men, Kevin Norton and James Stumbo, were stopped outside the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Centre following reports of …
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It’s tough to imagine Silent Hill(s) was left off the “Konami heritage games survey (opens in new tab)” by mistake – especially when one of its options is Sunset “Bury Me With My Money” Riders. You can still fix that oversight yourself, even if it probably isn’t worth much more …
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