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Part of the legendary Capcom Five – five Capcom games developed for the Gamecube that reversed the flagging console’s fortunes at a time when Nintendo were struggling to attract third party developers.

Resident Evil 4 is far and away the most critically and commercially successful of the five titles (the others being PN03, Viewtiful Joe, Dead Pheonix and Killer 7). Reimagining the traditional survival horror roots of the Playstation 1 predecessors into an action heavy shooter, Resi 4 remains one of the mechanically tightest single player shooters ever made.

A self-aware b-movie script, deliciously hammy acting and fantastic set and enemy design all combined with the gameplay to capture lightning in a bottle and influence the shape of third-person shooters for years to come.
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G4TV’s X-Play crew assemble their list of the 100 greatest games of all time. Have you played all of them?

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Joining the Queen Vic at Christmas 2013 is film actor Danny Dyer. He becomes the highest-profile appointment of the show for some time, and after a few hard, hard flops at the box office lately he’s probably happy to have a stable job.

Dyer will portray Mick Carter, described by the BBC as a “bloke’s bloke… He thinks nothing of throwing on [wife] Linda’s pink dressing gown and cooking breakfast for the family in the morning before getting the beer barrels ready downstairs”

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As daughter of former landlords Den and Angie, Sharon grew up in the Queen Vic. Buying it as a marital home with husband Grant, she served as part owner for many years.

Sharon and Grant’s marriage ended after he was sent to prison, but she continued to run the Vic whilst having an affair with Grant’s brother, Phil. Things got complicated when Grant was released and, in the end, she flees to America leaving the pub to her mother-in-law Peggy. Sharon briefly regains control of the Vic as part of an agreement with Steve Owen in 2001, but Phil soon buys her out.

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Grant Mitchell arrived in Walford in 1990. He and wife Sharon (daughter of former landlord Dirty Den) bought the pub as a marital house due to its history as Sharon’s childhood home.

The marriage didn’t last long. Grant was always Walford’s prominent hard-man, trashing the Vic during arguments with Sharon. His spell in charge came to an end when, in 1992, he set fire to the pub as part of an insurance scam. He forgot to check whether his wife was still inside. She was, as was the family dog. Oops.

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The most loved landlady of all Queen Vic history, and probably the most loved Eastenders character ever, is Peggy. Played by Barbara Windsor for over 15 years, she came to embody everything about the place.

Inheriting the Queen Vic from her son and daughter-in-law after their marriage ended, she originally ran it for over six years. In this time she married Frank Butcher, who became landlord of the Vic for the second time. In 2001 Frank leaves Peggy penniless, and she’s forced to sell up to Steve Owen and her former daughter-in-law Sharon. Just a year later Phil Mitchell buys back the family share and reinstates her.

When the family goes into debt in 2009, Peggy hands the pub over to her ex-husband Archie. She regains control after Archie’s murder on Christmas day 2009, but the pub is destroyed by fire the next year, causing her to leave the pub (and Walford) behind forever.

Peggy’s face behind the bar, and her shouts of get outta my pub!, last in the British culture long after her departure.

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The complete list of every owner of the most famous fictional pub in Britain.

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All the highlights from every match of week six of the 2013/14 Premier League.

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Heartbreak for Cardiff, losing so late in the match to a cheeky Paulinho backheel. But the home side just couldn’t hold Tottenham back any longer. Spurs dominated the match almost from start to finish, and the stats illustrate the level of frustration Tottenham were having due to a man-of-the-match display in goal by David Marshall.

Paulinho’s first Tottenham goal was assisted by fellow new signing Erik Lamela, the pair costing £47m in transfers between them. Considering they’ve missed out on Champions League football by a single point in the last two years, that goal could be worth every penny come May.

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Per Mertersacker puts Arsenal back in front, illustrating why the fans affectionately nicknamed him “Big Friendly Giant”. Stoke conceded several free kicks and corners in succession, and failed to pick up the towering German in any of them.

All Mertersacker had to do was exploit his size and jump above everyone else for his fourth Arsenal goal.

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