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Skylanders Swap Force preview

First there was Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, where action figures linked to your gaming console could harness the elements to cast powerful spells. Then there was Skylanders Giants, whose characters possessed unmatched strength and could pick up humongous rocks and move unmovable objects. And now there’s Swap Force, the next game …

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Bowling is dead! Long live Nintendo Land!

“Is there anything we can all play together?” When a series of events conspires to assemble a gathering of friends and/or family at my house it’s never too long before this question floats to the surface like a dead body broken free of its concrete boots. And although it’s asked …

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Star Treks Best Moments SFX NEEDS YOU!

Star Trek ‘s best moments : SFX NEEDS YOU! With not long to go until the release of Star Trek Into Darkness , all things Federation are at the forefront of our minds. Which is why we’ve decided to run a poll to decide what are Star Trek ‘s best …

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Top 20 Fringe Episodes Voted For By You!

This Top 20 was created from votes cast by readers of this website, all of whom were asked to vote for their five favourite episodes of Fringe . We think, looking at the results, that SFX readers have exquisite taste… 20 The Boy Must Live Season 5, episode 11 Walter, …

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BLOG Dredded 3D Strikes Again

Today I read this article over on IGN. The headline attracted me: “ Dredd 3D Prevails In The Home Video Market”. I’d heard that Dredd was doing very well since the DVD/Blu-ray had been released. I’d heard tales of the Blu-ray being sold-out in various supermarkets and that the film …

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50 Worst Comedy Movies

The Holiday (2006) The Movie: A thoroughly anaemic festive romcom, boasting one of the genre’s least convincing relationships in the Kate Winslet / Jack Black hookup. Worst Gag: The horribly cringe-inducing moment when Black starts wooing Winslet with a series of goofy keyboard riffs. Fool’s Gold (2008) The Movie: How …

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The Making Of American Mary

The idea Sylvia Soska: At the time we were trying to sell our first film, Dead Hooker in a Trunk and nothing was happening, we were incredibly broke from that experience, we were going down to LA being very green and had no idea really what we were doing and …

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Tweets of the Week

A final farewell to Fringe, some sobering thoughts on the end of Alphas and much, much more in the latest Tweets Of The Week (opens in new tab) Anyone who reads SFX , online or in print, will know how much we love Fringe . The show came to an …

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BLOG All Good Fringe

As I write there are just three episodes of new Fringe to go (in the UK, at least). After that there will be no more. The two-hour show finale is being shown simultaneously with the US; it’s airing on Sky (opens in new tab) in the middle of the night …

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Why Far Cry 3 is the best Assassins Creed of 2012

Great artists steal At the tail end of 2012, Ubisoft Montreal rolled out two of the year’s biggest games: Assassin’s Creed III, and Far Cry 3. One was a beautiful free-roaming adventure filled with climbing, stabbing, hunting and exploration, with an engaging main character who leads a downtrodden people in …

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