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The demise of Castle was met with dismay by its many fans when the show was cancelled back in 2016. Since 2009, Nathan Fillion had starred in the ABC show as Richard Castle, a crime writer who teamed up with homicide detective Kate Beckett to investigate crimes together. The premise was unusual and interesting, and … Read more
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There’s something truly special about glow in the dark toys. These little bundles of fun may not be particularly complex, and they may not have built-in screens or Wi-Fi, but just switching off the lights and watching as they illuminate the space around them is a special experience in and of itself. Of course, as … Read more
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If you’re not a horror fan, it’s hard to explain exactly why horror is so compelling. Perhaps it’s the vicarious release of allowing yourself to be scared in a controlled environment, or maybe it’s just the visceral thrills of what you’re seeing on screen, but horror scratches an itch that no other genre can scratch … Read more
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Australia, the land where endless deserts inhabited by bizarre looking marsupials and deadly critters rub shoulders with tanned beach babes and bucks on golden beaches. A game writer’s dream, surely? With those images alone, we could conjure up half a dozen open world ideas and as many arcade-style platform game themes. We wouldn’t be the … Read more
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It’s fair to say that Knives Out, the 2019 detective thriller starring Daniel Craig and directed by The Last Jedi helmsman Rian Johnson, was a breakout hit. Nobody expected Johnson and Craig’s concoction of nostalgic sleuthing, eccentric personalities, and tightly-wound plotting to become quite the runaway success that it was, but Knives Out captured the … Read more
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Imagine you are in the middle of playing your favourite computer game. You are finally cracking that level you have been struggling with for weeks. But, oh no! You feel your eyelids getting heavy. Your energy levels are powering down. Your stomach is starting to sound a lot like the monster you are fighting. You … Read more
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There’s no doubt that the PS2 is one of the most iconic gaming consoles of all time. According to sales data, it’s still the best-selling gaming machine ever, beating out competitors like the Wii, the DS, and the Game Boy. There are many reasons for the PS2’s success; its excellent library of games, iconic controller, … Read more
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Have you seen David Fincher’s 2014 thriller Gone Girl? If not, have you read Gillian Flynn’s 2012 source novel? Both the movie and the book are well worth your time, telling a complex tale of a couple that starts out simple and gets progressively more and more tangled as it goes. Fincher does an excellent … Read more
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With spooky season well and truly underway, October is traditionally a time when movie production companies unleash their terrifying Halloween fare upon the world. With Saw X a late September release, October offers a flurry more within the horror genre to consider. Before winter blockbuster season begins, you can expect a slew of scary films … Read more
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Since time immemorial (or so it seems, at any rate), a great debate has raged among computing enthusiasts, and the debate goes thus: Mac or PC? Competition was, at one point, incredibly fierce between the two camps, with the iconic “Get a Mac” ad campaign showing some of the differences between the two ecosystems. Microsoft … Read more
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It’s official: after months of speculation and excitement in the tech world, the iPhone 15 is finally here. The device is available right now in various territories at time of writing, with a September 29th launch pencilled in for the phone elsewhere. Reviewers and Apple aficionados are getting their hands on the phone and sharing … Read more
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Last year, the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours finally came to an end after a whopping 37 years. The first episode of the original show was broadcast in March 1985, and the finale, which saw many story threads brought to their conclusions, was aired in July 2022 (or August and September in some territories). However, … Read more
Read articlePokemon is one of the most popular anime that has kept entertained since the 90s, with eye-catching Pokemon battles and compelling speeches from Ashes and Brock, making the animated series one of the best modern animes. Consequently, when you are the best, the fans just can’t let you go like that. Hence came the card … Read more
Read articleDespite being a fairly young game, Valorant has a pretty huge player count. As of 2023, there are more than 15 million active players. Have you been stuck with an Iron ranking for some time now? After a certain point, you can’t blame second-rate support for not progressing any further. Ultimately, your training regimen and … Read more
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Depending on which calendar you follow, we’re either most of the way through summer or just around halfway through it (at time of writing, at least). You might think that movie releases would start to dry up once the initial summer thrill has faded, but that’s simply not the case; there are tons of great … Read more
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