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  • Civilization V to get expansion pack this spring

    Civilization V to get expansion pack this spring

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    2K Games have announced an expansion pack for Civilization V, the latest instalment in Sid Meier’s GodSim. In a blogpost, the developers confirm the Gods & Kings add-on will bring “more techs, units, buildings, Wonders, and playable Civilizations” to the game. It will also introduce new game elements, including new Wonders, new scenarios, a reworked…

  • Video game BAFTA nominations announced

    Video game BAFTA nominations announced

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    Nominations have been announced for this year’s video game BAFTAs Batman: Arkham City and L.A. Noire are jointly the most recognised games with eight nominations each. They’re followed by Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and LittleBigPlanet 2 which have six nominations and Portal 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim follow with five. This year’s GAME…

  • Kobo announces Best Buy US tie-up

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    eReader maker and eBook retail Kobo has struck a deal with Best Buy which will see its Vox eReader stocked at stores across the United States and online at www.bestbuy.com. Last month the company announced its readers would be available from Dutch retailer Libris Blz. In the UK the devices are sold by Asda and WHSmith.…

  • Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods

    Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods

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    Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods is a mind blowing horror film that promises to turn the genre inside out.

 Produced by Whedon and directed by Goddard from their…

  • All-star cast join Channel 4’s Coup

    All-star cast join Channel 4’s Coup

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    Rupert Graves, Douglas Hodge, Charles Dance and Gina McKee are joining Gabriel Byrne in Channel 4’s brand-new four-part drama series Coup. In the series Byrne plays politician Tom Dawkins, a reluctant hero who finds himself thrust into the spotlight of front-line politics when he least expects to be, and who risks everything by taking on…

  • Trailer: The Raven

    Trailer: The Raven

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    The Raven stars John Cusack as author Edgar Allan Poe who teams up with Baltimore detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Fields…