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At time of writing, Titanic is the third highest-grossing movie of all time. It’s achieved a worldwide gross of $2.19 billion, and it’s only thanks to the dominance of Avengers: Endgame and Avatar that Titanic doesn’t rule supreme. It’s clear the doomed romance between Rose and Jack (spoilers, sorry) still has a great deal of … Read more
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There have been three King Kong movies over the years. The first is, of course, the classic 1933 original, which memorably stars Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray. The second was made in 1976 and isn’t regarded in anywhere near as favourable a light as the original, but Peter Jackson’s 2005 attempt is much more well-liked … Read more
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It’s hard to imagine a movie more iconic than Jurassic Park. Packed with classic moments that movie fans can quote at the drop of a hat, Spielberg’s blockbuster masterpiece helped to usher in the modern age of ultra-high-budget cinema, and its practical and special effects are still yet to be bested in many ways. If … Read more
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The Watch Dogs series from Ubisoft is far from its best-known series, but it has quietly amassed a huge following over the last decade. After the recent announcement that the online version of Watch Dogs: Legion would no longer receive updates, fans have been wondering what this means for the franchise. There is speculation that … Read more
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Technically speaking, Nintendo’s GameCube was a more powerful console than the PS2. It had better graphical capabilities, but due to its unusual choice of physical media and its relative lack of major third-party exclusives, the GameCube unfairly lagged behind Sony’s all-conquering black monolith during the sixth console generation. This is unfortunate, because the GameCube had … Read more
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Sometimes, despite a developer’s best intentions, a project just doesn’t come together. At other times, an overabundance of ambition or a faulty design document mean that a game is essentially doomed before it even hears the starting pistol. In some ways, these games are worthy of celebration; they’re cautionary tales that show other developers what … Read more
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For many, the core reason to play video games is challenge. Some play to relax, others to socialise, and still others simply to kill time, but for a lot of gamers, challenge is the crux of what makes a game satisfying to play. There are many developers who recognise this, deliberately creating incredibly challenging games … Read more
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Sony’s PlayStation 3 started off at an unfair disadvantage. The Xbox 360 released more than a year before the PS3 got the chance to wow the market, and as such, many gamers had already declared their allegiance before Sony’s console could hook them in. That’s a shame, because the PS3 was a pretty amazing console … Read more
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It’s fair to say the Nintendo Game Boy was a runaway success. It’s still one of the top ten best-selling consoles of all time, and in the years following its release, it routinely topped hardware sales charts, demonstrating the incredible staying power of this handheld marvel. Much has been made of the Game Boy’s hardiness, … Read more
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The Wii often gets a bad rap. Hardcore gamers dismiss it as a casual console, intended only for families to play and with no real, serious gaming experiences to be had. This is a gross underestimation of how many great games there are on the Wii. This is, after all, a Nintendo console, and Nintendo … Read more
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The Wii U is an unfairly maligned console. Sure, the controller was unwieldy and difficult to use, and its battery life was weak, too, but the Wii U had one advantage over its competitors: it was, pure and simple, a games console. It wasn’t trying to be some kind of home media centre, nor did … Read more
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The arcade can be seen as the crucible of modern gaming as we know it. A typical arcade contained many cabinets, all of them housing different gaming wonders and promising mastery if only you could spend the time (and, crucially, the money) to get seriously good at them. Many of your favourite games likely began … Read more
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It could be argued that the launch of the Xbox 360 was the point at which gaming went truly mainstream. Of course, such a thing is impossible to quantify, but the Xbox 360 did absolutely huge numbers; we distinctly remember almost every household we went into in the 2000s and early 2010s having an Xbox … Read more
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When Microsoft entered the console market, it had everything to play for. The Washington tech giant was already dominating the world of PC gaming with its Windows operating system, but it had yet to prove that it could establish itself in console gaming as well. The original Xbox arrived to much cautious optimism and quickly … Read more
Read articleScream has to be one of the most misunderstood horror franchises of all time. These films started as an ironic deconstruction of the slasher genre; the characters in the movie actively talk about cliches and tropes endemic to the genre, and in the original 1996 Scream, the killer is someone who’s clearly au fait with … Read more
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