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Forza 4: A Review
14th October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Cars. They’ve never really interested me. Much to the disappointment of my dad, my science teachers and the legacy of my gender, the geek side of me won through leaving cars and their engines in the same bucket as football, the army, page three girls and heavy drinking.
Car games, then, are nowhere to be found on my gaming shelves, not ones like Forza 4, anyway. Titles like Burnout Paradise of... -
Gears Of War 3: A Review
22nd September 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I love a good cliché. Don’t you? The way a whole subject or personality is summed up one easy-to-notice bite and damages everything it was trying so hard to cultivate in its own style.
Things like grumpy commuters, Hollywood hot-shots like Charlie Sheen or moaning about not having the heart to dump someone even though you’re not that into them anymore. So cute.
Then there’s Gears Of War 3. This ‘blockbuster release’... -
The Mormons are finally coming to London
18th August 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So, there’s this musical that’s taken New York and Broadway by storm. It’s about Mormons and it’s probably the most hilarious, cutting, well-observed piece of stage performance you haven’t seen.
Now, finally, The Book Of Mormon is coming to the West End, I’ve been told.
Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park and Team America fame, along with Robert Lopez of Avenue Q, The Book Of Mormon has been... -
See what you missed at The London Film and Comic Con
26th July 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You think America is the only place geeks gather to meet their movie and TV idols? Guess again. London's premier comic-con event took place in the middle of July. Let the guys from Geek Night Out show you what you missed......
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Girls, skinny outfits, comics and Doctor Who. It’s Expo time!
14th July 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Back in May, Geek Night Out paid a visit to the London MCM Expo - a three-day convention showing off the latest films, comics and video games to a capital full of geeks. The costumes were splendid, the celebrities were fairly well known and the comedy was flowing. Join Rich, Paul and comedian Pete Dillon-Trenchard as they explore the MCM Expo....
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LA Noire: The Game That Suffers From Film
22nd June 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You could split the world in two. Easily. I’d suggest doing it this way: those who know that video games are interactive and those who believe games can be like films. Why such an odd partitioning of our great society? Well, because LA Noire is trying to fit into both, the confused little soul.
Games are not films. This is the first rule of interactive entertainment; it’s a simple rule but... -
MCM London Comic Con will make your Bank Holiday awesome
10th May 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Twice a year London Docklands’ Excel Centre pushes its glasses a little further up its nose, dusts off its Star Wars toys and gets very geeky for the MCM London Comic Con. The movie, comics and memorabilia expo is another chance to check out the latest in comic books, TV shows and video games. Mainly.
It also gives you the chance to top up your collections of Star Trek models, should... -
Portal 2 – Science is a cake-walk
4th May 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Remember those bus ads for Portal 2? You can’t have missed them; Portal 2 posters covered everything that moved, and anything that didn’t, about three weeks ago.
Now, the dust has settled and the game has been played. And completed. So, can this first-person puzzler meet the hype?
Portal 2 had to be a brilliant sequel, probably the greatest sequel of all time, and, for the most part, it is. Well, if... -
How portals and a cake make sequels difficult
20th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Remember Portal, eh? What a brilliant game that was. Do you remember when you first played it?
Expecting little more than a glorified display of a funky new physics engine toy, we were given the perfect video game: a brilliant fuse of logic, story, mechanics and quirky end-game music. Ah, yes. What a game.
Or, maybe you’ve never heard of Portal. You wouldn’t be the first to scratch their head at this,... -
Review: The Kennedys
7th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Where were you when JFK was shot? It doesn’t matter; it’s likely you weren’t even born. Still, it’s a fascinating and dark chapter in modern American history, you’ll agree.
So dark and fascinating that The History Channel spared no expense in making The Kennedys – a star studded, detailed dramatisation of John F Kennedy’s presidential career, and his equally fascinating family.
You might have heard of this already; Katie ‘Mrs Cruise’ Holmes'...
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Richard Preston
A product of Scotland and a second-generation child of modern media, Richard's natural ability to form accurate and correct opinion has seen him work for a number of actual printed publications. He's tinkered with gadgets, condensed huge swathes of Cult TV and Sci-Fi into his head and has even stood on stage to tell jokes what he wrote himself. Now living in North London, he dedicates his life to guiding you through our planets maze of media hell.
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