There might be some money in remakes. Yes, that. Square Enix, home of Final Fantasy and a range of action figures that I’m desperately craving right now, is looking to spin some of their older titles onto new platforms. Platforms which include virtual reality, it seems.

All the major studios are doing it - pushing out HD remasters of games we knew and loved. But EA hasn't jumped on that bandwagon, and they don't intend to.

Remakes are a fact of movies and while some are just terrible ideas (particularly when using the studio marketing venac of a ‘reboot’), a few remakes are superior to the original. But what about remakes that are revisited by their own directors? Here are a few movies that got a second chance at the hands of the people who made …

The potential remake of The Crow has been suffering. With production delays, no starting date and now, the loss of its main star, its basically dead in the water again. Which of course has led most people to say “well why don’t they just leave it alone? We don’t need another remake!” Well, that’s the thing. Don’t we? You might …

A decade after the original games were released, and the remakes for Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby are looking might fine indeed.

Expect plenty of new Mega Evolutions, new Pokemon and a few surprises in the demo for the upcoming Ruby and Sapphire remakes.

Let’s face facts: Every great movie is eventually going to be remade. Hell, even the bad ones are going into reboot territory. Top of that list? Fresh rumours that Titanic will go headfirst into iceberg territory once again. James Cameron’s classic film and the number one reason for bleeding ears thanks to that godawful Celine Dion song will most likely …

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