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Metro
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
RoboCop Unfinished Business preview: ‘We created something bigger than expected'
GameCentral goes hands-on with the standalone expansion of RoboCop: Rogue City, which dials up the action and gory splatter of 2023's surprise hit. For a franchise that has arguably done nothing of worth since the early 90s, the future of RoboCop is looking surprisingly bright. Following Amazon's acquisition of MGM, a new TV show is currently in the works, with rumbles of a new film as well. Whether this leads to a major rejuvenation for everyone's favourite cyborg law enforcer remains to be seen, but the original source of any RoboCop redemption arc has to start with 2023's RoboCop: Rogue City. Developed by Polish studio Teyon, RoboCop: Rogue City was the kind of unexpected surprise you rarely get from licensed games. It recaptured the original's wit and 80s aesthetic, but also found a way to deliver the fantasy of playing as the half-human cyborg without streamlining any of the character's personality. The bloody action was built around his hulking, slow movement, dry one-liners were in abundance, and missions weren't always reduced to mowing down thugs in corridors – you also handed people parking tickets, settled trivial civilian disputes, and, in one wonderfully mundane side mission, did the rounds in the office for a get well card. The game became publisher Nacon's 'best ever launch' with 435,000 players within two weeks. Now, a year and a half later, developer Teyon is back with a standalone expansion. Marketing around Unfinished Business has purposefully dodged the term *DLC*, but as explained by the studio's communications manager, Dawid Biegun, it started out as exactly that. 'When we released RoboCop: Rogue City, we were thinking about, this story has many things [we can] do in the future,' says Biegun. 'We had many paths we could choose. So we basically started slowly developing some new storyline. The game was planned to be DLC but it grew out of control. It was a really rare situation where we created something bigger than we expected, so it became a standalone expansion from then.' Unlike Rogue City, this expansion, which we're told spans around eight hours on average, is centred around one location in the OmniTower. Like most things in the RoboCop realm created by OCP, this promised idyllic housing complex quickly goes south when a band of mercenaries assume control. To restore order, and after a creepy opening where an attack on the Detroit police station leaves several officers frozen solid, RoboCop is assigned to the case. Unfinished Business wastes little time in throwing you into the action, and quickly amps up the chaos. For anyone who has played Rogue City, all the original tenets of the combat are here, albeit with a slight increase in difficulty. You'll be looking for explosive cans to blast, illuminated panels to ricochet bullets off walls, and all the while trying not to expose yourself to too much gunfire. The combat purposefully doesn't have the slick speed of Call Of Duty, but it is still aggressively punchy, with headshots resulting in satisfyingly bloody splatters and RoboCop's famed Auto-9 machine pistol still having the kickback of a pocket pneumatic drill. From the get-go, Unfinished Business pushes back in a way Rogue City never did. New enemies equipped with riot shields are a real nuisance if you don't utilise the ricochet panels, while the ability to slow down time is a much bigger crutch to chip down the enemy numbers from a distance. Health pick-ups felt in shorter supply too, even on the normal difficulty, to the point where we barely scraped through several encounters. While it's unclear if this applies to the whole game, Unfinished Business feels like a gnarlier experience, when compared to the original. RoboCop has some new context sensitive finishing moves, like throwing enemy heads into concrete walls or vending machines, which is a satisfying addition to the melee arsenal. There's greater enemy variety too, between fierce minigun heavyweights and flying drones, along with some neat action set pieces. In one standout, we had to operate a walkway bridge to deactivate a giant turret at the end of a room, dashing between cover as it rains down bullets and destroys the surrounding environment. Anyone who has played action games before will recognise all the mechanics at play in this scenario, but it was still well executed and effective. Another had a whiff of Star Wars, as you rush around shooting electrical panels to stop a trash compactor from crushing you via the descending ceiling. The action shift in Unfinished Business is best defined by a later sequence we got to play, where you take control of the franchise's signature mech, ED-209. If the power fantasy of playing as RoboCop is tested in this expansion, ED-209's section was pure mental catharsis, where you blast away enemy hordes with miniguns and rockets, and clean up any stragglers with a rigid, robotic stomp. The rush of piloting ED-209, with its cacophony of explosions and bullets, felt like a throwback to vehicle sections in a long lost Xbox 360 game – but in a good way. While there's a definite lean towards combat, rather than gift card signing, when compared to Rogue City, it hasn't entirely abandoned the detective side. According to the developers, if Rogue City had a 60/40 percent split between guns and detective work, Unfinished Business 'would be like 70/30, or 80/20' in comparison. More Trending We saw some of this , with one memorable encounter seeing you quizzed by a RoboCop superfan who is unconvinced you're the actual RoboCop, leading to a series of questions based on the history of the franchise. There is optional side missions too, although the time we had with our preview limited our chance to fully delve into them. The sales and positive reviews for RoboCop: Rogue City emboldened Teyon's vision and scope for Unfinished Business – and that confidence shines through in what we played. Some might be disappointed by the steer towards action, and we were heading into this preview, but by the end, this felt like a welcome extension with its own unique flavour. This is RoboCop: Rogue City with its pedal to the floor, confined and concentrated into a lean, tightly focused machine. As for the studio's next steps, the success of RoboCop has only reaffirmed Teyon's strengths and identity as a team. Between its three studios across Poland and Japan, with over 140 employees in total, Teyon wants to maintain its grip within the AA space. 'We feel strong here in such games,' Biegun said. 'We wouldn't want to grow like 200, 300, 400 people, because we're going to lose our soul this way. We want to stay as we are right now.' Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Games Inbox: How much are you spending on the Nintendo Switch 2 launch? MORE: How to get a Nintendo Switch 2 this week in the UK MORE: James Bond video game from makers of Hitman will be unveiled this week
Daily Mirror
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business is familiar gory fun as a standalone
If you're seeking a bite-sized shot of punchy 80s action distilled into a standalone first-person shooter, RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business appears set to go down a treat. RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business marches to a familiar beat that the base game did, but shakes things up a little with a larger emphasis on shooting and even more enemy types to take down. No modern video game translation of a cult 1987 movie had any right to be as good as the original RoboCop: Rogue City. More than a budget FPS that just slapped the 'RoboCop' name on the box, it genuinely understood the 'part man, part machine, all cop' in a way few video games (and even some movies) before it had, setting players off on a different type of shooter that did excellent justice to the character's heavier, more assertive cadence and movement style. Hence why it wasn't too surprising to see developer Teyon return to this world so soon, not via DLC or a full sequel, but rather a standalone expansion that aims to lock everything the first game did so well to a single tower block. The result won't blow anyone's minds, but it's hard to complain when you're gunning down thugs 80s style while Basil Poledouris' iconic score blasts in the background. Heading into my hour-long demo of RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business I was genuinely curious just how well this standalone story would work. The original game's narrative turned out to be one of the most surprising things about it, sitting neatly between the events of the second and third movies while offering deeper insight into RoboCop's present and past as he faces a new enemy. Well, for better and worse, very few of these events bleed there way into Unfinished Business it seems. Instead, it elects to focus on an all-new threat that tasks RoboCop with working his way up a single tower block in the manner of Dredd 3D or The Raid to put an end to a hostile takeover. The opening mission actually takes place outside of this OmniTower housing complex, seeing RoboCop explore a recently invaded police precinct that sees all its officers butchered. It serves as a good enough way to reintroduce the base game's unique mechanics (such as scanning and investigating) at a far slower pace than if players were immediately thrown into the action right from the off. It also does well to appropriately establish the stakes. This prologue eventually leads to OCP's discovery of the Omnitower which has been taken over by some of Detroit's worst gangs. You as RoboCop are the only solution, and It isn't too long after that the slaughtering begins. Much like before, the standard Auto-9 pistol is a great way to turn enemy heads into a blood splatter. Only being able to move with a heavy step and therefore a much slower pace than other FPS titles, it pays dividends to take down human enemies as quickly and efficiently as possible. RoboCop's armour means you can take much more of a beating, of course, yet with Unfinished Business I instantly noticed its nature to see your health deplete much faster – likely due to each floor of the OmniTower being so crowded with gangsters able to attack you from all sides. Your move, creep In these instances, as unnatural as it still seems, picking up a sniper, SMG, or even a Rocket Launcher and firing it at enemies is a must. Otherwise, you'll spend more time searching around stages looking for health packs as opposed to dealing out justice in RoboCop's uniquely brutal way. Speaking of which, I was pleased to see that Unfinished Business does much to retain its 18+ rating, with blood splatters and gory deaths only ever just a few trigger pulls away. In fact, this is an expansion that doubles down on the character's immense power, thanks to all-new context sensitive finishing moves that sees the camera temporarily pull out to a third-person view. It's a small touch, but one I came to quickly appreciate. Also new this time around are the new flying type drone enemies, which do much to take your gaze away from merely the ground or the odd balcony when continuously gunning down cretins. When these blighters arrive it was easy to find myself having to step up my reaction times quite significantly – something that's not always easy to do given how slowly RoboCop moves by nature. Other than these, however, much of what I was actually doing in Unfinished Business didn't vary too much from RoboCop: Rogue City. In fact, if anything, action is emphasised a lot more now, since the semi open-world sections that allowed for some semblance of investigation before were nowhere to be seen in the four chapters I played. In the lead up to launch Teyon has teased flashback missions where players will play as Alex Murphy prior to his cybernetic transformation. And although I wasn't able to play any of these myself, I'm genuinely curious to see how this changes the rhythm of gameplay. For now, however, my demo capped off with a sequence where RoboCop himself was bound and restricted in the tower, causing a mysterious new ally to make an ED-209 unit accessible. Facing off against this giant, hulking bot in the base game was a true challenge. That's why actually playing as it in Unfinished Business feels immensely cathartic. Both because it wasn't possible before, yet also as stomping on thugs and blasting entire rows of floors away using rockets and turrets proves wildly destructive. RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business is the sort of standalone expansion that does exactly what it says on the tin. Though most of its mechanics and presentation style is lifted directly from the base game that came immediately before it, the addition of new weapons, contextual finishing moves, as well as missions that change up your perspective is just about doing enough differently to help give it a unique identity. Better yet, it's shorter runtime will directly correlate with a much cheaper price point compared to a full game, and so far it's narratively riding the line perfectly between those who have played RoboCop: Rogue City and those who have not. There's still a lot to learn about how the story will land and how the Alex Murphy missions will play out. For now, however, it's still hard to imagine any video game nailing the act of being RoboCop as well as this.
Daily Mirror
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Love Island star says Netflix show changed his life after 'tough' time
Love Island star Biggs Chris candidly opened up on enduring a tough time in recent years following the heartbreaking split between himself and the mother to his child, Ziyon Biggs Chris has candidly revealed how taking part in a brand new Netflix show has 'changed his life' for the better, after enduring a tough time in recent years. The reality star and influencer's appearance on Netflix's Cheat: Unfinished Business saw him come face to face with his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Gormley, who he met while on the winter version Love Island in 2020. The pair didn't spark up romance until after leaving the villa and the pair dated for some time before eventually splitting in the summer of 2021. They remained amicable, despite allegations of cheating on both sides. Biggs, 33, moved on to have a new relationship and started a family with his ex-girlfriend, Summer Hawkins. But, the pair sadly split weeks before his son Ziyon was born in December 2023. Following the split from the mother of his child, Biggs took part in Netflix show Cheat, Unfinished Business, in which he came face to face with his Love Island ex Rebecca to make a confession. In the show, he admits to cheating on her but, the TV star has revealed in an exclusive interview with the Mirror that Rebecca was the one who approached him about doing the show – which made him think she was also going to admit to being unfaithful. Biggs revealed: "Rebecca messaged me asking if I would do a TV show and I was like, 'yeah, why not? Sounds good, let's do it.' Then I found out what it was." He added: "So it never had an official name, but they were either gonna call it Second Chance or Cheat Unfinished Business, so I knew it was gonna be about cheating or working something out. So I thought Rebecca... there was always something between us, you get me, there was always something there lingering up throughout all these years. "And I thought she was coming on to admit that she cheated because there was speculations that she cheated. So I thought, 'you know what, let me use this opportunity to tell you that I cheated and let's build from that, let's see if we could, like, fix it from there'. But yeah, then obviously, the madness happened." During the show, Biggs comes face to face with Rebecca and admits he was unfaithful towards the end of their relationship. And, after Rebecca admitted she was "struggling to move on" from Biggs' admission, the pair's relationship ended for good – and, sadly, on bad terms, despite remaining friends in the three years after their split. During the series, Rebecca sparked up chemistry with another participant, Craig, which sparked fury in the group and amongst viewers. The pair were flirting in secret, unbeknownst to Biggs and Craig's ex Jazz, and things got messy when it was revealed to Biggs during a 'reckoning' that Rebecca had been flirting with Craig. Since the show, Biggs revealed he and Rebecca are no longer on speaking terms. "We don't speak, we've not spoke since," Biggs revealed. Although Biggs' relationship with Rebecca didn't end up in the outcome he initially wanted, the reality star and property mogul managed to take some really positive lessons from his time on the show and said dating expert Paul C Brunson, who was on the Netflix show to help coach the couples, has changed his life. Speaking of Paul, the star gushed: "He's changed my life, like, literally, I've told him that he's changed my life. The way I think, because I'm not... So, the mistake I made in the relationship with Rebecca was not being honest, so she liked to party, and I just wanted to build, so I didn't voice that enough. So I would just party with her, party with her, and then at the back of my mind, I'll be counting the days, like, [until] I'd leave, does that make sense? But if she had no idea, I'd just hated complaining, but that's a mistake. Now, Paul has taught me that if you're feeling something, say it, don't hold it in, say it, and, like, talk about it." Biggs has since taken the lessons he's learned from the experience into his current romance with Emily. The pair now live together and Biggs prefers to keep his romance on a much lower profile than his previous relationships as he's learned some difficult lessons throughout the years. He told us: "I'm happy in my life now. Things are finally going the way it's supposed to. It's been a... it's been a tough couple... it's been a tough – the past two years have been tough. Especially like with my baby mum leaving, like walking out, and now I'm having to fly to see my son. But you know what? Everything happens for a reason." Biggs added that despite the heartache around his split with the mother of his child, his son, Ziyon is "the best thing that ever happened to me". He revealed: "I've always wanted a family. That was my number one goal. Even though it might not look like it, the way I've got this player image. But it's just my number one goal was to have a family and build together." And as for his new romance, he's determined to keep things private – despite sharing the occasional glimpse of his stunning girlfriend on TikTok. He explained: "I'm saying I want to keep it private, even though it's all over TikTok and that, but I'm protecting this relationship. I don't want to make the same mistake, for example, with my ex, Summer, I exposed her to that life, and now, it's like I created a monster, and that's what my dad's been trying to prevent, like, he's always been saying to me, 'like, try and keep your relationship private, because you're exposing them, and then, they take it and run'. Because [when] I met Summer, my baby mum, she was a teacher, so she was this nice, quiet teacher, I exposed her to this world, and now, I've created a monster. "My goal was to never date an influencer, like, I'm not dissing influencers, but I'm an influencer, but it's just, it's good to keep it private, post here and there, but I won't make that my main priority now." Now Biggs is blissfully happy in his romance, he has vowed against doing anymore dating shows – but is still up for doing more reality TV. He revealed: "I wouldn't do any dating shows, but I'd be happy to do, like, Big Brother, or any cool shows that, or any property shows. I'm really big on properties, so I would do something like that, but dating shows, I feel like I've passed, and I got what I needed, you get me, I've got the relationship and help I needed from it, so, yeah."
Scottish Sun
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Watch the shock moment Love Island's Biggs admits to CHEATING on Rebecca – leaving her in tears on Amanda Holden's show
Rebecca revealed that his confession made her feel like some sort of mug BLINDSIDED Watch the shock moment Love Island's Biggs admits to CHEATING on Rebecca – leaving her in tears on Amanda Holden's show LOVE Island's Biggs Chris has admitted to cheating on Rebecca Gormley leaving her in tears on Amanda Holden's new Netflix show. Cheat: Unfinished Business sees eight former couples reunite on screen in the hopes of putting infidelity issues behind them and reconnect at a luxury 'retreat' in Mallorca. Advertisement 7 Love Island's Biggs Chris has admitted to cheating on Rebecca Gormley leaving her in tears on Amanda Holden's new Netflix show Credit: NETFLIX 7 Biggs admits he slept with someone at the show's first group meeting Credit: NETFLIX 7 Rebecca was left feeling 'like she was some sort of mug' Credit: NETFLIX Biggs and Rebecca met on the winter series of Love Island back in January 2020, though didn't get together until after the show was over. But their romance immediately hit a bump just two months into the relationship when she spent the night at Michael Griffiths' flat. However, Rebecca, Biggs and Michael all denied anything happened – with Michael instead letting her crash on his couch after a messy night out. But later, Rebecca confirmed she had split from Biggs in August 2021 - despite Biggs announcing plans for them to marry and even building a house in Glasgow for them to live. Advertisement Biggs then claimed they had ended their relationship as he was looking to settle down and start a family while she was still enjoying a party lifestyle. However, despite breaking up nearly four years ago, it seems that there's still some unfinished business between the two. But Rebecca was blindsided on the show's first episode, when Biggs admitted, just minutes in, that he cheated on her. Speaking alone to the camera, Biggs revealed: "I'm hoping to rekindle things with Rebecca, but she doesn't know I cheated on her, and to move forward I have to come clean." Advertisement He then proceeded to confess in front of the group's first face to face meeting: "I did mess up." Rebecca, who looked confused asked: "Do you want to elaborate?" Watch the shock moment Love Island's Rebecca explodes at 'cheating' ex Biggs - in first look at Amanda Holden's new Netflix show Host Amanda Holden then added: "What does mess up mean?" He finally said: "I cheated towards the end of the relationship." Advertisement Rebecca said it was a major shock as she had heard rumours about cheating, but it was never confirmed. In a later conversation between the pair, Biggs added: "Towards the end of the relationship I slept with someone. "I f***ed up. I don't know why I did it." Rebecca replied: "It makes me feel violently sick. You are painted to be a nice boy but I think it was all an act." Advertisement Rebecca was left devastated by the revelation and broke down in tears while speaking to camera later. Through her tears she explained: "I do actually feel hurt cos it's so unexpected. "It's just made me feel like I'm an idiot. Like I'm some sort of mug. "Like how didn't I see it? It's not nice." Advertisement While Rebecca has not had a public relationship since their split, Biggs started dating influencer Summer Hawkins, also known as Sumerica. In 2023, Biggs became a father for the first time with Summer but he split from her just weeks before she gave birth to their son. Summer spoke on why the couple ended, explaining the distance between them proved difficult for a long-lasting relationship. Speaking on the break-up, a source told The Sun: "It's very sad but Summer and Biggs have decided it just isn't working. Advertisement "They want what's best for their baby and they just don't think it's being together at the moment – they were arguing too much." The former couple have also wiped almost all traced of each other off their Instagram pages following the separation. Biggs declined to comment when contacted by The Sun. 7 Host Amanda Holden asked Biggs to explain what he meant Credit: NETFLIX Advertisement 7 Rebecca felt blindsided at the confession as she had never thought he would do that Credit: NETFLIX 7 Rebecca said Biggs revelation was a major shock as she had heard rumours about cheating, but it was never confirmed Credit: NETFLIX 7 Amanda Holden hosts the Netflix series which sees eight ex-couples reunite Credit: Tom Dymond/Netflix Cheat: Unfinished Business is available to stream on Netflix.
CBS News
26-02-2025
- CBS News
Murder suspect confesses to decades-old Florida cold case after DNA leads to arrest, sheriff's office says
A Florida man has confessed to murdering another man in 1997, closing a cold case that's more than a quarter-century old, officials said. Stephen Edenfield was found stabbed and beaten inside his Tampa, Florida, condo on Feb. 1, 1997, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Monday. The night before he was found dead, Edenfield had gone out twice, sheriff's office cold case investigator Dan Bendig said on "Unfinished Business," a podcast run by the agency. First, he had gone out to dinner with his brother and sister, Bendig said. Before midnight, he left the complex again, then returned around 12:50 a.m. on Feb. 1. Edenfield briefly spoke to a security guard because he had forgotten his remote to enter the complex gate, Bendig said. Edenfield told the security guard that the driver of the car behind him was also with him. The security guard let both cars into the complex, but did not get a good look at the driver of the second car, Bendig said. Bendig said that neighbors started hearing "violence in the house" and "calls for help" within an hour of Edenfield returning home. Three neighbors told police they had heard "some sort of disturbance." Around 2 in the morning, the security guard was conducting rounds at the complex. He saw a "dark shadow" near Edenfield's apartment, Bendig said, and realized it was a person, but did not get a good look at the person's face. Edenfield's brother found him dead in his apartment the next day. There was evidence of a violent struggle, and the word "Greed" was written on Edenfield's bedroom wall in blood, but there were no signs of forced entry. An initial investigation did not lead to any arrests. The sheriff's office's Cold Case Unit reopened the investigation in 2022. The unit worked with Othram Labs, a forensic genetic genealogy company. Othram Labs said that it used forensic evidence from the initial investigation to develop a comprehensive DNA profile for an unknown suspect. That profile was then used in a forensic search to find new investigative leads, the company said. In 2024, a forensic search found that the DNA profile was also linked to an unsolved 2005 sexual assault case in Illinois, the sheriff's office said. Brandon Gliha had been identified as a suspect in the case. Police turned their attention to Gliha, now 47 and living in Tampa. They found he had been arrested on an Illinois forgery warrant just weeks before and was in custody, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office told CBS News. Investigators from the Cold Case Unit interviewed Gliha at a police facility, the spokesperson said. During the interview, he confessed to Edenfield's murder, the sheriff's office said. On Monday, he was charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon. Online jail records show Gliha is being held at a Tampa jail. A bond amount has not been set. Edenfield's sister, who he had dined with the night before his death, died before Gliha's arrest. Edenfield's brother, who found his body, was alive to see it, local media reported. "For 28 years, Stephen Edenfield's family has waited for answers. Today, we can finally give them some measure of peace," said Sheriff Chad Chronister in the news release. "No family should have to endure this kind of pain for so long. While nothing can erase the loss they have suffered, we hope knowing that justice has been served brings them comfort."
