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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 announced, will expand on those 8-bit Castlevania vibes

By Brad Lang
June 24, 2020
in :  Gaming
0

Developer Art/Play announced a sequel to their Castlevania tribute last night, which will have more whips, action and epic scope to marvel at.

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Friday Debate – Are retro games overrated?

By Darryn Bonthuys
July 12, 2019
in :  Gaming, Opinion
28

You might be shaking your fist right now, moaning that back in your day, there was no DLC. There were no season passes, games that needed hourly patches and services being delivered piecemeal to you on a weekly basis while you paid monthly for the privilege to play those games. No sir, you’d pop a cart into a machine, switch your console on, switch it off, take the cart back out, blow the dust off of it and then you’d play a game. Simple as that. No long-ass loading screens, just simple plug in and play gameplay. That’s how games of that age were the best. Bollocks.

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Frozen is an excellent 8-bit game

By Zoe Hawkins
October 13, 2014
in :  Gaming
13

Prepare for nostalgia with this 8-bit game version of Frozen.

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Extras! 20 March 2014

By Kervyn Cloete
March 20, 2014
in :  Entertainment
2

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: March 20, 2014

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Extras! Jeff Wadlow will go fast, Dustin Hoffman & Bobby Cannavale get cooking, From under the dome to tomorrowland, Selena Gomez probably gets shot, and Neill Blomkamp wanted who originally for Elysium?!

By Kervyn Cloete
July 19, 2013
in :  Uncategorised
2

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: July 19, 2013

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Gaming

Iron Man in 60 sixty seconds, Mega Man Style

By Geoffrey Tim
May 30, 2013
in :  Gaming
7

Watch the first Iron Man film recreated in 8-bit, with decidedly Mega Man-inspired visuals.

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Director Richard Moore talks Easter Eggs and character cameos in WRECK-IT-RALPH

By Kervyn Cloete
July 19, 2012
in :  Entertainment
1

If you haven’t noticed yet, over here at The Movies we all happen to be quite avid gamers as well as movie lovers. But whenever those two worlds combine we always get a little nervous, and rightfully so based on how dreadful video game movies tend to be. (I’ve single-handedly paid off my therapist’s Clifton mansion after watching Street Fighter: …

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Entertainment

These 8 bit movie posters are geektastic!

By Kervyn Cloete
March 27, 2012
in :  Entertainment
1

I’m a child of the 80’s who had a medically certified unhealthy obsession with video games, so pretty much anytime “8” and “bit” is mentioned in close proximity together, my Pavlovian instincts kick in and I start to insta-drool. And now artist Eric Palmer has gone and taken that neurosis and blended it with my other not quite sane love …

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