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The games you obsess over as a child are interesting, because in a lot of cases (and correct me if I’m only speaking for myself here), you often didn’t finish them. You may have sank more hours into them than is reasonable or sane but it’s…

With Venom out this week, Andrew Carroll looks back on his personal favourite superhero Every time another Marvel movie comes out I let out a little sigh. I don’t like superheroes anymore. The glut of them that’s hit cinemas in recent…

Released in 1998, Ronin was a modest box office success that’s remembered today more for its car chases than its plot. The film is a standard 1990s thriller whose true stars are the cars despite the acting heavyweights in the cast. But,…

The Simpsons are no strangers to video games. As their popularity would suggest, they've had a number of games since Simpsons mania in the early 90s with terrible Bart based adventures leading into the 2000s with the likes of The Simpsons…

It's hard to find retro or vintage games to play as they were meant to be played anymore. Especially the games that proved popular enough to warrant a remaster. Remastering games seems like it's only come into vogue recently especially now…

Kindly indulge me, and apologies to John Hughes here (except in relation to the icky bits of those movies; you know the ones I mean), but I firmly believe that the golden era of teen movies was 1995-2004. It was an age of retellings…

Very few games allow you to call in a nuclear missile on your location and then let you walk away. In the Fallout series being within 100 feet of a Fatman's ordinance is guaranteed death. It's a game ending kill streak in a select few Call…

Cyberpunk anime are as common in Japan as period dramas are in the UK. At least three are produced every year. More if people are especially concerned about the unstoppable forward march of technology. The influence for all these anime…

Sean Connery ’s career ended with a whimper not a bang. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was the famed Scottish actor’s last film before he went into retirement. It might be one of his worst. A mishmash of Victorian characters from…

In recently published plans, NASA suggested that the risk of an asteroid striking the Earth is small but such a hit would be very, very bad. The American space agency has some ideas for dealing with this threat but they don’t include asking…