GAME REVIEW – Batman: The Enemy Within – Episode 3: Fractured Mask (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Fractured Mask is the third episode of Batman: The Enemy Within, a new five-episode adventure game from Telltale Games (The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Guardians of the Galaxy), DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. As Bruce Wayne continues to infiltrate the criminal gang known at the Pact, things are complicated by the sudden arrival of an old love interest…

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GAME REVIEW – Far from Noise (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Far from Noise is “a single-player narrative told through dialogue choices” created and independently released by developer George Batchelor, a programmer at State of Play Games (Lumino City). Taking place on a cliff edge, players take control of a young woman trapped in a precariously balanced, old rusting car.

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GAME REVIEW – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode 5: Don’t Stop Believin’ (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Don’t Stop Believin’ is the fifth and final episode of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series, a five-part episodic adventure game from Telltale Games (Batman: The Enemy Within). In Episode 5, the Guardians must put aside their differences and come together to defeat Hala the Accuser once and for all.

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BOOK REVIEW – Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon

By Marty Mulrooney

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Future Noir is the ultimate guide to the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. Written by film journalist Paul M. Sammon, the book – which is often referred to by fans as the ‘Blade Runner Bible’ – chronicles the adaptation of author Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? from page to screen and beyond, offering a behind-the-scenes guide to a production that, despite being troubled, birthed a thought-provoking classic that is still being talked about today.

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