Retro-Respect: Okami (2006)
Based around the spiritual Shinto religion of Japan, Okami lets players take control of sun goddess Amaterasu, in the form of a white wolf. You must use powers (gained from other gods taking the forms of increasingly disturbing animals) through…
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Hot Dark Shadows – Out now It’s been two whole years since our last Tim Burton delight of Alice In Wonderland, so this comedy-horror that looks similar in style to the aforementioned film has no doubt been long-awaited. Along with…
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What’s Hot Alkaline Trio – Portsmouth Pyramids Centre – 1st May Finally, the November 2011 rescheduled show is coming to Portsmouth. Injury caused the band to cancel the show last year, and with all the extra months to prepare, it…
Gaming: HD remakes – the loss of video game magic
With the long delayed Silent Hill (2 and 3) HD makeover finally released this past March, we’re drawn to think about whether such a process is necessary in the gaming industry. Silent Hill 2 garnered its cult reputation on the very fact that…
PS Vita: an impressive console that’s worth the money
On 22nd February 2012, the PS Vita was finally released to the expectant Western World after more than two years of the familiar rumour, hype and hearsay routine (starting as far back as July 2009) that usually accompanies the release…
Retro-Respect: Jak and Daxter (2001)
After the childish innocence of Crash Bandicoot’s ‘collect everything in this room before moving on to the next one‘ gameplay, and before the epic globe-trotting of Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, we had the blissful adolescence of the Jak and Daxter series…
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Hot The Hunger Games The anticipation is mounting for the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel. Spurred on by the very brief adverts that keep being broadcast. They haven’t given us much and it’s true that the less they show us,…
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Hot The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – In cinemas now It has an essence of Love Actually about it, quintessentially British-made with a large cast of famous faces. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel tells the story of 7 strangers who…
DVD/Blu-ray review: Melancholia
Upon viewing the beautifully-shot Melancholia, the realisation hits you of how far Danish film has come since the Dogme movement in 1995, when low budget film-making was the norm. Coincidentally, it was Melancholia‘s director, Lars Von Trier, who initiated the…
Retro-Respect: Kingdom Hearts (2002)
Few developers do nostalgia better than Square Enix (or Squaresoft, as they were known back in 2002). With Kingdom Hearts, the Japanese makers of gaming’s biggest RPG franchise (Final Fantasy) teamed up with the masters of Western animation, Disney, to…