All the new entertainment (Games, Music, DVDs and Blu-Ray) that will be out and available this week (28/12/15 to 01/01/16) in most stores near you (England).
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All the new entertainment (Games, Music, DVDs and Blu-Ray) that will be out and available this week (21/12/15 to 25/12/15) in most stores near you (England).
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All the new entertainment (Games, Music, DVDs and Blu-Ray) that will be out and available this week (14/12/15 to 18/12/15) in most stores near you (England).
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On Channel 4 (UK) at 9:00pm tonight they are showing the latest masterpiece by Charlie Brooker and its called “How Video Games Changed the World“. Charlie Brooker will be joined by Jonathan Ross, Dara O’Briain and various gaming icons like Will Wright that will help him go through about twenty games that they believed made a difference to the world.
Gabe Newell has confirmed rumours recently that Valve are working on a “Steam Box” which is a hardware unit designed especially to bring PC gaming to the living room. Valve Corporation recently released Big Picture mode has gained “stronger than expected” support giving Valve Corporation options when it comes to designing their own living room designed hardware.
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God I despise award ceremonies and everything has an award ceremony these days. I forgot to watch the Spike Video Game Awards show last night but I am glad I did because most award ceremonies are cringe worthy to watch especially video game based ones. If last years one was anything to go by then I doubt much has changed. Anyway here’s the winners or I could say losers.
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With World of Warcraft newest expansion Mist of Pandaria coming out in just over two weeks, it’s not surprising to see some television adverts being released. Well it is surprising to see video game adverts at all on television these days but that’s another topic all together. The two television adverts are made up of clips from Mist of Pandaria’s opening cinematic which stars Chen Stormstout as a mighty kung-fu styling panda.
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Markus “Notch” Persson has written on he’s blog recently about the issues of gender in Minecraft. Notch says he’s original intention when designing the game was to have the playable character “Steve” to be entirely genderless. He also says that he regrets adding a goatee to the character and that the character name Steve came from a joke response when someone asked him about the character.
This gave me an idea to explore about gender in games such as Minecraft and Tomb Raider while looking at how films handle this problem at the same time. Also I will explain why sex and gender is important in the various entertainment mediums.
King Toko 