Space Invaders

10 video game franchises that will never, ever die

Super Mario As long as video games exist, so will Mario. The little Italian plumber has starred in over 200 games (this article from 2012 suggests he was at 188), appearing in 6 last year and a whopping 9 in 2013. He’s already down for 3 games this year! So …

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04/02/2015
Chris Smith

5 of the greatest game trailers (that were nothing like the game)

Trailers are designed to convince us to splash our hard-earned cash on a product, and producers will go to great lengths to part us from our dough. Sometimes, they’ll even go as far as to produce fantastic trailers that bear little resemble to the finished product… Dead Island The Dead …

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03/02/2015
Chris Smith
The Interview

February’s New Releases

February may be the shortest month of the year but its jam-packed with new releases, from lovey-dovey romcoms in time for Valentine’s Day to zombies and dodgy lawyers. Here’s what we’ve got to look forward to this month”¦ (If you need a bit of spare cash for this month’s new …

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02/02/2015
Chris Smith
Big

7 films that are being adapted into TV shows

Remakes and reboots have long been the norm in the world of movies, but not so much on TV (with a few honourable exceptions, like Battlestar Galactica). That’s about to change, however. Over the next few years, the small screen is going to be hit with a barrage of reboots …

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30/01/2015
Chris Smith
Snowball

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Snowball

We try our best to find something for everybody with our weekly Surprisingly Easy App of the Week, but sometimes we stumble across an exclusive app that’s so good that we can’t help but cover it. This week’s app is Android only; if you own an iPhone or Windows Phone, …

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29/01/2015
Chris Smith

10 of our favourite hilarious videos

It’s the end of the month; celebrate with these 11 hilarious videos! Unicycling done wrong. Horribly wrong. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Unicycling…done right! This is how you do it. Dover Policeman shakes it off Not in that way, you dirty-minded scamp. Instead, a dashboard cam catches a particularly jolly bobby enjoying …

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29/01/2015
Chris Smith
Google Glass

After Google Glass, what next for smartglasses?

Oh, Google Glass; we barely knew ye. Just over half a year after it was launched in the UK, Google has decided to shelve the first edition of their infamous head-mounted smart glasses. While the official line is that Google is preparing for a new model in 2015 (and a …

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27/01/2015
Chris Smith

Playlist: The Biggest New Artists of 2015

Thanks to the magic of hype and excitable music critics, we have a pretty good idea who the artists to keep an eye out for this year. We’ve compiled some of our favourites below; check them out! Remember: you can sell CDs with musicMagpie – even embarassing ones! James Bay …

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26/01/2015
Chris Smith