Martyn Warren

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    Little Charley Bear: Antarctic Charley DVD Review

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    One of the most lovable and popular children characters currently shown on television, Little Charley Bear was only released last year and yet it has already enjoyed success with the new series airing on the CBeebies channel and toys selling at shops. The popular teddy bear has also enjoyed some DVD releases and with this [...]

    Our pick of this week’s Best Deals in Blu-ray, Comics and Games

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              The Adventures of Tintin – Blu-Ray – £22.99 – Play.com Back in the nineties, this was one of the most popular animated television shows that dominated many television sets alongside Batman: The Animated Series and The Simpsons. The appeal of a young reporter going on adventures around the world with [...]

    Resident Evil Revelations Review

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    Resident Evil fans are sure in for a treat this year with Resident Evil 6 being released at the end of the year and Operation Raccoon City set to be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March the twenty third (and the latest installment in the Paul W. S. Anderson film series, if [...]

    Big Barn Farm DVD Reviews

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    The Foundation are behind some of the most popular television shows for children for the past few years, including Mister Maker, Scorpion Island, Finger Tips, Dani’s House and Waybuloo. But one of their shows that is still airing on CBeebies since it’s debut in 2008 is Big Barn Farm, a live action television show that [...]

    Our pick of the Week’s Best Deals in Games

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    Resident Evil 5 Gold: Move Edition – Play Station 3 – £9.99 – Amazon UK To celebrate the trailer that was launched recently for Resident Evil 6 and with Resident Evil Revelations out on the 3DS this week, I thought that this would be a great starting point for this week’s deals. Originally released in [...]

    Our pick of the Week’s Best Deals in Blu-ray, Comics and Games

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    With so many deals available online we’ve taken the liberty of picking through the bargain bin and pulling out the choicest offers we could find. This week we have an excellent sci-fi film, a famous graphic novel and the latest outing for one of the most popular gaming characters out there. If there’s a deal [...]

    Christmas Video Vault: Jingle All The Way

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    Ah, being a child in the nineties: GameBoys, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, early Pixar films, Batman: The Animated Series and Pokemon trading cards. But when it comes to Christmas films, one of my favorites as a youngster was Jingle All the Way, which was not only one of my first Christmas films at the cinema, [...]

    Donkey Kong 30th Anniversary: 30 Years of the Gaming Industryʼs King Kong

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    One of Nintendoʼs first major games to be released after turning from manufacturing playing cards into a fully fledged video game company, Donkey Kong was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The character is still highly loved among Nintendo fans and after all these years, he continue to star [...]

    Cbeebies’ Christmas Gift Sets Review

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    Christmas products and offers started appearing even before Halloween and it is no surprise that Cbeebies have already started to sell Christmas edition DVDs and special box sets ready for parents to buy for their children to open on Christmas day. But while every year television shows for all ages usually release a DVD with [...]

    Oska Bright 2011 Film Festival Report

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    During my time submitting my graduation short film to various festivals and screenings from around the world, one of the film festivals that it was accepted into was the Oska Bright 2011 Film Festival. For those who may not know, Oska Bright is a group that supports, teaches and makes short films and video projects [...]

    The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Review

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    Nintendo have pulled off one of the greatest celebrations in video game history, with 2011 marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. With an Ocarina of Time remake for the 3DS, a free downloadable game in the form of Four Swords for Nintendo’s current handhelds and having three symphonies within three countries, the [...]

    Super Mario 3D Land Review

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    While many have questioned the lack of quality games released so far for the 3DS, this Christmas developers have saved their best for last with releases such as Shinobi, Rayman Origins, Super Pokemon Rumble, Cave Story 3D, Tales of the Abyss and Sonic Generations. But two titles that could easily take over the sales during [...]

    Metroid 25th Anniversary: 25 Years of A Gaming Icon

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    Nintendoʼs iconic spacebound bounty hunter celebrates twenty five years of classic space adventuring and being a big fan since the Metroid Prime games, I felt that this needed to be covered in the same respect as was given to The Legend of Zeldaʼs twenty fifth anniversary recently. The games will be ordered by series rather [...]

    Naruto Volume 52 Review

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    Masashi Kishimoto’s popular series about a world of ninjas and ninjutsu has become one of Shonen Jump’s biggest manga series of all time and the volumes have sold millions of copies worldwide, as well as having an anime television series, trading cards, toys, a clothing range and many other merchandise. This week sees the release [...]

    The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition 3DS Review

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    The first ever multiplayer game within the Zelda series was first released as part of a package with the Game Boy Advance port of A Link to the Past back in 2002, which was followed three years later with The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures on the Game Cube. Since this year marks the [...]

    South Park Season Fourteen DVD Review

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    South Park has remained one of the most respected, loved and controversial animated television shows for adults since it’s debut in 1997 and this year has not also marked it’s fourteenth season, but also the two hundredth episode special. Even though it is great to see a great season finally being released on DVD, UK [...]

    Starfox 64 3DS Review

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    Fourteen years ago, Nintendo released the sequel to the acclaimed SNES hit Star Fox for the Nintendo 64, released in the UK as Lylat Wars. It is considered one of the best games for the console and one which still stands as one of the best games within the series. With three further games garnering [...]

    Winnie the Pooh DVD Review

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    In the last few years, Disney has experimented with it’s return to the traditional animated roots that it helped to create, with The Princess and the Frog and Tangled already putting the company in a great start as they both managed to exceed their budgets in the US domestic box office. Winnie the Pooh is [...]

    Batman: Brave and the Bold Volume 6 DVD Review

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    Batman: Brave and the Bold has been a successful animated series that has aired on Cartoon Network for the last couple of years, seeing everyone’s favorite caped crusader teaming up with a different DC superhero in action-packed episodes. From the famous heroes such as Aquaman, Green Arrow and Blue Beatle to the lesser known characters [...]

    Top Five Most Wanted Fighting Games for the 3DS

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    Fighting games have become popular on the Nintendo 3DS with Super Street Fighter 4, Samurai Warriors: Chronicles and Dead or Alive: Dimensions hitting the handheld earlier this year and with Super Smash Brothers, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2 and Tekken to be released sometime in the future I thought that it would be a good time [...]