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Andor Season 2 (2025) Round-up: Star Wars’ hard-to-swallow epic is just what fans needed
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Doctor Who (2025) Lucky Day: An Average Start That Reveals A Sublime and Timely Message (SPOILERS)
Night Moves (1975) Gene Hackman’s Memorable 70’s Thriller Comes to 4K
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Freaky Tales (2024): High on Style, Inconsistent on Substance
The Magnificent Trio (1966) & Magnificent Wanderers (1977) Unearthing the Bookends of Chang Cheh’s Wuxia Reign
A Woman of Paris (1923) Chaplin’s First Drama Film Falls Short 
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Hate the Player, Not the Game? The Art of Matching Games to Table-Top Personalities

Matt Colver 12/07/2018

In order to persuade people to play a game, you’ll need to know what motivates them. For some competitive types, it’s all about the winning. For others, it’s about social interaction and the taking part. Some like cooperating as a team. Some aren’t bothered as long as they don’t come […]

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Dungeon, Dragons, and the World of Make-Believe: Why You Should Try Role-Playing Games

Matt Colver 23/01/2018

I want to talk to you about role-playing games. No, not the kinky kind, the ones where a bunch of people get together and pretend to be someone else for an evening, going off having adventures. Not online – though that can be fun – but face to face, in […]

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Don’t play that, play this: alternatives to classic board games

Matt Colver 06/09/2017

A while ago I wrote an article about Monopoly, outlining the many reasons I dislike it. But what should you play instead, when the urge to accumulate cash or take it from your friends and family strikes you? I’d recommend the delightful Machi Koro, an excellent card game by Masao […]

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Magic: The Gathering – The Returning

Luke Shepherd 18/01/2017

My first memories of Magic: The Gathering – the most seminal, burgeoning and ubiquitous of Trading Card games – are of walking into my local computer gaming store as an 11-year-old and wondering what all the fuss was at the back. It so happened, it was 1994, when the latest rages were all about […]

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Monopoly: Legendary for all the Wrong Reasons

Matt Colver 16/12/2016

I remember the first game of Monopoly I ever played. I loved it. The colourful board, the little car, dog, and old boot playing pieces. The fact that you had fake money and could buy stuff, that you could win second prize in a beauty contest. It was all so […]

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