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    Games you stopped playing

    It's actually quite rare that I don't stop a game before finishing (not counting all the Games with Gold games that I may download to try out and not necessarily finish) but the most recent example is Far Cry 4. I really, really wanted to like this game, having enjoyed Far Cry 3 so much. I got...
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    Mini-Teaser Debuts First Footage of Jurassic World

    I really want this to be a good film - Jurassic Park is one of my favourites, remember getting the film on VHS back in the day. I also remember my friend screaming in terror in the cinema during the Dilophosaur attack scene, but that's another story. Seeing that this is set on the same...
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    Ubisoft vs EA. -Or- The Evil of Two Lessers.

    I don't have much love for Ubisoft at the moment. This is just coming from trading in the follow up to one of my favourite games of 2012 (Far Cry 3). If I'm unable to "connect" to my singleplayer game session while playing on the offline mode, something has gone seriously wrong. Oh, and well...
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    BBC Exec Wants a Woman to Play Lead in Doctor Who

    I guess I just see the Doctor as a male - as it's how he's been in both "old" and "new" Who. I'd have no issue with a smart, eccentric female Time Lord showing up at some point, but I would just prefer it wasn't the Doctor. That, and if it did happen, it would probably end up just smacking of...
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    GTA V Online: A Year Without Heists?

    I tried to get into GTA Online recently on 360 and despite my mental state being low (or stable I guess you could say) I always seem to end up in lobbies where the majority of the players have either already gone psycho or are just about to who will pick you off if you so much as move. It means...
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    BBC Exec Wants a Woman to Play Lead in Doctor Who

    Nah, I just can't see this, sorry. I don't think I could buy into the Doctor we know as being a female. It would be interesting to see what the actual showrunners woulds make of this idea. It's something I could see Steven Moffat jumping at, if only for the chance to make the Doctor his/her...
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    Jimquisition: The Poison of Pre-Order Culture

    Perhaps also the fact that they have taken the unprecedented step of actually including the entire game with the finished package you will pick on release date, no fiddly little extras fenced off for whatever reason. On the subject of Alien: Isolation, my reaction exactly Jim's: utter...
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    BioWare Launches Survey to Help Direct Mass Effect 4

    Did the survey. Put simply, I just want my Mako and explorable planets back (though in a mire interesting form this time please).
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    Thor Is Getting Gender-Flipped. Officially.

    I'm all for the "strong female character" type, but couldn't they have come up with something new, instead of switching out an existing male character? Anyway, I feel they've missed a trick in saying it is time to changing it from a male Thor and then not replacing him with a sentient dish...
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    Escape to the Movies: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Apes With Machine Guns

    That's what I was thinking. Given the time Bob devoted to Rise... in this video, I was waiting for "it's too bad about the follow up" lead in to the actual review. Looking forward to this coming out - I wasn't sure if I was going to like Rise and ended up really enjoying so glad to hear this...
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    Escapist News Now: Alien: Isolation Pre-Order Features Sigourney Weaver As Ripley

    But...it's iconic! Don't you see? Speaking of Watch Dogs, I remember feeling rather sadly amused when in my local game retailer a copy of Watch Dogs advertised on the box as the "complete edition". What's worse, the fact that we're at the point where you can't just pick up a game anymore and...
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    Ancient Arachnid Resurrected through Fossils in CGI Video

    Intriguing prospect. I wonder if this storyline has been done yet - AI controlled biological constructs running amok, all thanks to the power of the cloud. Inevitably, the only solution for humanity will be to permanently kill the internet while we still have control.
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    Ancient Arachnid Resurrected through Fossils in CGI Video

    Perhaps in this case, they are referencing the wrong movie here. I feel it time we face up to the all too real possibilities shown in Tron: Legacy, where a digital creation was able to physically manifest itselfr in the real world. This spider may only exist in the form of a 3D model today...
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    Movie Defense Force: World War Z - Despite The Title, A Great Zombie Flick

    I read the book a good while back (blahblahblah I was there before it was cool bow before my superiority) so by the time the film came out I had forgotten a lot of the smaller details that I heard had been carried over into the film. I personally thought the film was just "okay". Besides the...
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    Rainy Day Superman Fights For Truth, Justice, And Mopey Poetry

    Yeh, this was garbage. I'd like to think the Escapist could do better - since when did this site become a source for bad knock offs of Cracked photoplasty's (which can be of variable quality in their own right)? They even managed to fit in one of those sweeping generalisations they seem to...