Advent Calendar - Dec 8th - Back to the Future game trailer

Your treat for today really is a good one - it's the trailer for the Back to the Future five-part game series from Telltale Games. It looks pretty good, and it features Back in Time by Huey Lewis and the News. Not sure if there's a massive three-dimensional holographic shark in there though, but you never know your luck.

By the way - if you're looking for more about the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Re-release on DVD and Blu-ray, check out our review of the boxed sets available here.


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Advent Calendar - Dec 7th - K. Sparks 'A Day In The Life' album sampler

December 7th is the release date of K. Sparks' A Day In The Life (The Kurser Remix Suite). But before you head over to Amazon to download it, we've got an advent calendar treat for you - a sneak preview of two tracks from the album and a sampler of the rest. Hit the play buttons below to see what you think and hit up Amazon if you feel the urge to own the whole damn thing.

Mind Elevation

Sometimes

Album Sampler

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Advent Calendar - Dec 6th - Twilight: Eclipse trailer

Today it has to be The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The latest movie in the Twilight franchise is fresh out on DVD and Blu-ray, just in time for Christmas. Reacquaint yourself with the trailer as today's treat below.




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I Fight Dragons - Welcome To The Breakdown

Chicago's I Fight Dragons make fun, inventive pop by utilising the 8-bit sounds from NES and SNES consoles, combined with some good old fashioned Blink-182 style power-chords. Known as chiptune, it's not as unusual a concept as you might think, with proponents of this quirky sub-genre popping up all over America over the past 5 years or so, as well as some far flung outposts, notably Scandinavia.

Welcome To The Breakdown, featuring seven new tracks, is the band's second release after 2009's Cool Is Just A Number EP.

Advent Calendar - Dec 5th - Free iTunes download of Prince Fatty - Dry Your Tears

Today's treat is one you probably know about already, but by our reckoning it's the last day that Prince Fatty - Dry Your Tears will be iTunes' free single of the week. It's free, so there's nothing to lose - you may as well get over there and download it, before it's too late! And because it's Christmas, we've even given you a video of Prince Fatty live in Thailand to enjoy.




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Advent Calendar - Dec 4th - House MD game trailer

Today it's a heads-up on the upcoming release of House MD for the Nintendo DS, due out on December 10th. The trailer below is for the PC version, but you can expect the same combination of medically themed puzzles and imagery from the show. The only question that remains is... could it be lupus?


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Advent Calendar - Dec 3rd - Blu-rays for under £10

Today's treat is proof that Blu-rays don't have to cost the Earth, with Amazon's excellent selection of Blu-rays for under £10. Our picks are below, but follow the link for a massive choice of more than 1,000 titles, all in high definition.


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Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning (Deluxe Edition)

It's not often these days that a new album gets past my cold hard exterior of cynicism and weary indifference to actually make me feel something. The Beginning, the latest from Black Eyed Peas manages it though for all the wrong reasons. It's not that I've ever been a fan of theirs, but at least in the past you could count on Will.I.Am and his other preposterously named cohorts to come up with the odd good hit; Shut Up is a decent song, My Humps was ridiculous but undeniably catchy, and it all seemed to come together on I Gotta Feelin. But The Beginning falls so far short of even my modest expectations that I found myself getting really wound up just listening to it.

It's not just the sense of talent being wasted, but the obvious lack of finesse or any sort of care gone in to the process of making this album. This hasn't been crafted, just thrown together and packaged up, shamefully, into standard, Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions, all conveniently available in time for the lucrative Christmas market. Black Eyed Peas see themselves as some sort of 'future hip-hop' group, which apparently means an abundance of over-compressed sounding electro/dance beats, robotic one-paced rapping, and practically every line spoken or sung either cut to pieces, or autotuned beyond recognition. Kanye has a hell of a lot to answer for if this is the future of hip-hop.

Advent Calendar - Dec 2nd - Ciara 'Basic Instinct' album sampler

Today's Advent Calendar goodie is an album sampler preview of Ciara's upcoming release Basic Instinct. If you like it, you can pre-order at Amazon here or download from iTunes from December 13th here.


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Advent Calendar - Dec 1st - Doctor Who Christmas special preview

Stick with POPSICULTURE as we count down to Christmas Day, with a new treat behind each door. Today, a festive special to open the countdown, in the form of a sneak preview of the Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol.


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