5 of the best games for a quick-fire session

August is Games Month on the musicMagpie blog. Throughout the month, we’ll be bringing you loads of gaming-related fun – starting with 5 of our favourite games for a quick-fire session. Most of us are too busy to sit around in our pants playing games all day, which is a …

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04/08/2014
Chris Smith
Inbetweeners 2

August’s New Releases

Good news: after last month’s relatively barren release schedule, things have picked up again! Check out these movies, albums and games this August… Movies Step Up: All In (1st August) You know the score by now: a bunch of fancy-dancing take on other fancy-dancing kids in a fancy-dancing competition, which …

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01/08/2014
Chris Smith
Streets of Rage 2

9 video games that need to be remade immediately

We’ve been trained to dislike remakes by nature, cautious of the kind of lazy, misguided rubbish Hollywood occasionally puts out. But video games are a different beast entirely. Take The Last of Us Remastered, which comes out later this week; it’s received amazing reviews, even though the original game is …

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29/07/2014
Chris Smith
Wind Waker HD

9 essential video game remakes

The Last of Us Remastered, a PS4 remake of the PS3 classic that came out just over a year ago, is released this week. Surely this is just a cynical cash-grab by Sony and Naughty Dog? Probably not, actually. Videogames, which are constantly being improved by bigger and better technology, …

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28/07/2014
Chris Smith
Wii U

5 underrated games consoles (you can buy right now)

For most people, gaming begins and ends with PlayStation and Xbox. Sony and Microsoft have made such a reputation for themselves that most people aren’t willing to venture beyond the safety of the console brand names they know and love. Beyond ”˜the big two’, however, there are actually quite a …

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25/07/2014
Chris Smith
FIFA 14

The Top 5 Most Traded Games

1) FIFA 14 2) Grand Theft Auto V Call of Duty: Black Ops The Last of Us New Super Mario Bros. There have been a couple of unexpected new entries onto our Most Sold games chart, including one Call of Duty game dropping out and being replaced by another. Why …

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22/07/2014
Chris Smith
Vice City

8 Essential Retro Games You Can Play on Your Phone

It’s easy to presume that most games available on Google Play and the iOS App Store are well-disguised money drains designed to make you pay a fortune just to get to the next level. But lurking beneath the wealth of ”˜freemium’ games are a veritable goldmine of gaming goodies, including …

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22/07/2014
Chris Smith