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Exclusive Interview: “Titanfall” Composer Stephen Barton

 

Never let it be said that the people at Respawn Entertainment aren’t loyal to their friends. In making their first game, Titanfall, they not only brought back their old pal Jesse Stern — who previously worked with them on 2007’s Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and 2009’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 — to help write the game, but they also reunited with composer Stephen Barton, who had the music for the first Modern Warfare.

Though in talking to Barton, composing the music for Titanfall wasn’t like working on a second Modern Warfare.

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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: Sleepaway Camp Collector’s Edition Announced

Scream Factory have announced that a special edition of the ’80s horror movie Sleepaway Camp will be released in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on May 27th.

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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: Ripper Street: Season Two Announced

BBC Home Video have announced that Ripper Street: Season Two will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 15th.

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Ghostbusters POP! Vinyl Figures Announced

Funko have announced that they’ll release a series of POP! Vinyl Figures of the characters from Ghostbusters in April and May.

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Exclusive Interview: Titanfall Actor/Character Model Abbie Heppe

When Abbie Heppe was first hired by Respawn, it was to be their company’s Community Manager. But as so often happens in game design, one thing led to another, and now Heppe is also the voice of the Militia commander Sarah in Respawn’s new sci-fi shooter Titanfall, as well as the face model for pilots on both sides of the conflict in the game. Which means she’ll probably be running the place inside of six months. Though in talking to Heppe about her career path, it’s clear this isn’t all part of some carefully crafted master plan devised by a career-minded genius. Or so she says…

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Liv, Forever Author Amy Talkington

Sometimes life works in mysterious ways. Take author Amy Talkington. Before she penned her first novel — the young adult ghost story Liv, Forever — she was going to tell her tale as a screenplay for a movie. But after she wrote it as a book, it got optioned by a film company…who hired Talkington to write the screenplay. Though in talking to her about the book, it seems that some of what happened while she wrote the novel wasn’t so mysterious.

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Titanfall Video Game Review

In the online-only, multiplayer-focused, first-person, overly-hyphenated, sci-fi shooter Titanfall, soldiers use futuristic weapons and giant robot suits to battle it out on alien worlds. And with the game being made for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC by Respawn — y’know, the people who, at their old jobs, made Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 — it’s not surprising that this game boasts smooth, intuitive controls and addictive multiplayer.

But what might surprise you is that, while Titanfall can only be played online and with other people, the game’s story-driven campaign is still as engaging as its competitive counterpart.

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BOOK/GAME NEWS: Art Of Wolfenstein, Evil Within, Dishonored Announced

Dark Horse Comics have announced that they will release three art books based on Bethesda Softwork’s games — Wolfenstein: The New Order, Dishonored, and The Evil Within — in the coming months.

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Doctor Who: The Time Of The Doctor DVD & Blu-ray Review

While everyone loves Doctor Who these days, not everyone loved the episode “The Time Of The Doctor,” which aired last Christmas and heralded the end of Matt Smith’s time as the sci-fi shamus. So does that mean that, aside from people who liked the episode, or who have to own every single thing that has the words “Doctor” and “Who” on it, there’s no reason to get Doctor Who: The Time Of The Doctor on DVD or Blu-ray?

Pretty much.

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