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Star Wars generates $1 billion of video game sales in 2015

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It’s not just at the box office where Star Wars is generating huge sums of money, with Forbes reporting that the franchise has pulled in over $1 billion of revenue from video games in 2015, spurred on in no small part by the excitement over Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The site reports that 6 […]

Flickering Myth’s Favourite Video Games of 2015

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Flickering Myth’s writing team pick their favourite video games of 2015… There’s no doubt about it, 2015 has been a pretty incredible year for games. In the past 12 months we’ve returned to the wasteland in Fallout 4, saved Gotham one last time with The Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Knight, Snake returned for one last […]

Video Game Review – Batman: Arkham Knight – Season of Infamy DLC

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Ricky Church reviews Batman: Arkham Knight – Season of Infamy DLC… After several mediocre to disappointing pieces of story DLC, Batman: Arkham Knight finally delivers meaningful campaigns in ‘Season of Infamy’. Unlike the previous DLC, ‘Season of Infamy’ is actually treated as an expansion to the main game, offering players a few more Most Wanted […]

The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens hits $1 billion, more original trilogy cameos, alternative versions of the movie and more

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It’s a Holiday Edition of The Week in Star Wars, and we’ve got more record breaking box office news from The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams talking about Episode VIII and Kylo Ren, the rest of the cast talking about the movie and what could have been the plot of The Force Awakens before it was […]

Video Game Review – The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

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Martin Carr reviews The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing… Hungarian games developer NeoCore have unleashed a Diablo III clone which is fun, fast but ultimately offers little to shout about. I know that sounds like a rather harsh opening but consider these hurdles. Diablo III was an epic action RPG which managed to remain addictive […]

Video Game Review – Star Wars Battlefront

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Tom Powter reviews Star Wars Battlefront… Star Wars Battlefront is both parts a stunning recreation of the much-loved original trilogy of films, and a disappointingly barebones first-person shooter. It’s interesting to see just how true to the films developer EA DICE’s vision for the game was – the world they have created is perhaps the […]

The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens reviews are in, suprise cameos, huge box office opening, Harrison Ford doesn’t want to be in the Han Solo movie and more

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  Guess what – it’s a Force Awakens busy edition of The Week in Star Wars. The movie is finally here, the reviews are in and it’s had a whopping box office opening. There’s also some bits and bobs from the Star Wars Universe… Kicking things off with – you guessed it – Star Wars: […]

Video Game Review – Just Cause 3

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Kris Wall reviews Just Cause 3… Avalanche Studios are really staking their claim to be the masters of explosive entertainment. Following on from this years Mad Max, the latest entry into the Just Cause series takes their pyrotechnics to the next level with some of the most destructive gameplay I’ve ever seen in a video […]

Hideo Kojima partners up with Sony

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After the numerous amounts of trials that Kojima has recently faced within the games industry due to the alleged actions of Konami, including recently refusing him entrance to the Games Awards to accept the award for Metal Gear Solid V, you’d believe he’d be wanting to steer clear from the games industry for some time. Well […]