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Need For Speed is yet another video game adaptation resulting in a dull, lifeless and tedious film proudly joining the ranks of Silent Hill, Prince of Persia and Resident Evil. Proving Hollywood has a unique skill for picking up popular franchises, taking them for a cheap ride then dumping them battered and bruised in the toilet of a roadside diner. I don’t know about you, but growing up I played tonnes of video games that could easily have been adapted into brilliant films. As a card carrying Nintendo devotee, I may be a smidge biased but picture Zelda as a swashbuckling fantasy epic, Castlevania in all its ghoulish glory or Super Mario Bros as … well lets not go there. It's so frustrating that studios can't develop these stories into films without thoroughly butchering them in the process. Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is a mechanic who dabbles in the shady world of underground street racing. Known for his dangerous racing style, Marshall’s world is left in tatters ...

I’ll be frank with you guys; other than Team Fortress 2, I really haven’t played many multiplayer first person shooters over last few years. For some reason they just lost the appeal with me. Sure, I would play your other FPS games like Halo or Bioshock, but nothing of the multiplayer aspect online. I managed to be part of a large amount of people to get Beta Access a few weeks back for Titantfall on PC. Now if you haven’t heard about Titanfall (I mean who hasn’t due to all the hype?), it’s a multiplayer only FPS set on a war-torn planet where players fight as mech-style 'Titans' and their pilots. It’s the perfect game for people that used to love multiplayer FPS but are now tired of multiplayer FPS. Confusing? Basically it takes everything that is perfect about games like Call of Duty and blows it all out of the water. Online reporting indicates that following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision fired two of Infinity Ward’s co-founders Jaso...

Thanks to those swanky swashbucklers over at Madman, we've got copies of the latest One Piece movie release, One Piece: Strong World, to give away on Blu Ray and DVD. 20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki "the Golden Lion" reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During his long seclusion, he was able to come up with a scheme to bring the World Government to his knees. On his way to execute the plan, Shiki crosses paths with the Straw Hat Pirates and becomes so impressed with Nami's knowledge of meteorology that he abducts her to forcedly enlist her into his crew. Luffy and the gang end up on a strange land populated with monstrous beasts as they desperately search for Shiki and Nami. - Madman All you have to do is fill out the form below (the answer can be found HERE ) and you're in the running to win yourself a copy of One Piece: Strong World thanks to Madman. Don't forget, you can get yourself a bonus entr...

Thanks to our pals at Hanabee and Oz Animart we've got a very cool prize pack to give away in celebration of the release of Cardfight!! Vanguard Part 1 on DVD. 1 Lucky winner will get their hands on a copy of Cardfight!! Vanguard Part 1 on DVD AND an English edition of the Blaster Blade Trial Deck which means that you'll be all set to play straight away. Learn the basics from Aichi and then embark on your own journey, battling with the Royal Paladins at your side. All you have to do is fill out the form below and you're in the running to win yourself a prize pack thanks to Hanabee and Oz Animart. Don't forget, you can get yourself a bonus entry just by  following us on Twitter  or  liking us on Facebook! THIS COMPETITION HAS CLOSED E ntries close 11:59pm on Sunday 16th April 2014. Your details will not be used in any way other than for the delivery of your prize. Geek of Oz and Beyond do not take any responsibility for the loss, damage or delay of/to...

Cynicism be damned; I enjoyed Cardfight!! Vanguard Part 1. Sure, it's a TV series designed to sell a card game but I simply do not care. The same can be said for Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! R, the latter of which shares a creator with CV, Akira Ito. Heck, if we succumb to cynicism then we'll be relegated to watching a select few anime series because whether you like it or not, merchandising is a core part of the medium. It's time - Stand up, my Vanguard! Shy third year middle school student, Aichi Sendou, doesn’t have much going for him when he spends most of his time contemplating on the past. But his life is due for a change and it all rests on a card called “Blaster Blade”, given to him when he was young.  “Blaster Blade” is apart of “Cardfight!! Vanguard”, a card game that is sweeping the world by storm for its highly realistic gaming system. Through Toshiki Kai, a highly skilled Vanguard player, Aichi’s boring life will be turned upside down as he...

This weekend I had the pleasure of talking to comic book creator Ryan Ferrier. We discussed his latest series D4VE , as well as touching on some of his works such as Tiger Lawyer , and discussing our love of TV’s The Golden Girls. Billy Tournas: Ryan, thanks for taking the time out to chat. D4VE is a story, at its core, about a former hero now dealing with a crippling mid-life crisis. The Earth is inhabited only by humanoid-esque robots. Into its 3rd issue now, I'm curious as to where the idea for D4VE come from?  Ryan Ferrier: It kinda came from me wanting to do a big action book, a sci-fi kind of story. At the time I was reminiscing about my previous job which was very much like D4VE’s job. A horrible 9 to 5... Stuck in a Cubicle? Yeah. The two kinda come together and worked its way into D4VE. The story to me is equal parts catharsis and fantasy for me, if that makes sense? Yep. Like day dreaming at your job. Yeah for sure! And you know wanting to do s...

You know how it goes. Man invents robots. Robots help man accomplish menial tasks. Man makes robots more intelligent to do slightly less menial tasks. Robots become too intelligent. Intelligent robots go out and massacre the humans they were built to serve. Welcome to the post-human world of D4VE, by writer Ryan Ferrier and artist Valentin Ramon. Ferrier and Ramon serve us up a future in which robots have not only eradicated all the squishy humans, they have also wiped out every other living species in the galaxy. If you think this all sounds a bit bleak and melancholy you would be very wrong indeed. D4VE is a hilarious and lighthearted romp that handles the genocide of humanity with about the same level of reverence South Park gave Scientology, and contains about as much foul language and fart jokes to boot. To say I'm a fan would be an understatement. D4VE opens with our hero, who goes by the name of D4VE surprisingly enough, working a boring desk job. Although once a...