Is Evolve the most original game of the year?

The idea behind Evolve, which is released tomorrow, is one almost as old as gaming itself: a team of human marines take on a big hulking monster with superpowers. However, Evolve presents one big difference: you get to play as the monster. It’s rare that gamers get to be the …

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10/02/2015
Chris Smith

The Surprisingly Easy Guide to the BAFTA Winners

The great and good of the acting world descended on London for the BAFTAs last night. The event is widely considered as a precursor to the Oscars and is arguably the biggest night in the British film calendar. Naturally, you won’t want to miss out on the all the exciting …

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09/02/2015
Chris Smith
Feat Phones

5 classic phones that we miss dearly

N-Gage Is it a handheld games console? Is it a phone? No, it’s the Nokia N-Gage and it’s the most ridiculous excuse for a mobile phone ever created. Designed to replace both the Game Boy Advance and whatever phone you were using at the time, the N-Gage didn’t do a …

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05/02/2015
Chris Smith
Over

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Over

Every week, we bring you an app that’ll make your life easier. This week, we’re going to help you make your selfies more profound (or silly) with Over, an easy-to-use mobile photo-editing suite. What is it? A super-useful app that lets you add text and artwork for your photos. From …

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05/02/2015
Chris Smith
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