Been toying with getting on board the futuristic virtual reality train, but it was just a bit too expensive for your tastes? Your moment has arrived. GAME has cut prices on Oculus Rift headsets bundled with the impressive Touch controllers to £399 as part of a global promotion, and it …
Read More »Exclusive Valerian image offers the first official look at Bob the pirate
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is one this year’s most anticipated sci-fi movies, not least because it comes from the brain of Luc Besson – the mastermind behind The Fifth Element. The trailers have proved it’s an action-packed thrill ride full of interesting aliens, space races, and …
Read More »Even the most botched and broken games can be surprisingly playable, as Mafia 3 unwittingly proves
The light is failing, the rain is pouring, and I’m bouncing over the dirt tracks that masquerade as roads in the Bayou at pace. If contending with the loose handling of the rust bucket I’m driving wasn’t enough, snaking over the rivers that cut New Bordeaux’s rump up like a …
Read More »FIFA 18 is coming to Switch, but can it fix Nintendos troubled relationship with football games?
In many ways, the presence of FIFA is a good barometer of a platform’s relevance. When EA stopped launching versions of its world-beating football series on the PS Vita and 3DS in 2015, while focusing more and more attention on its Ultimate Team-based free-to-play mobile version, it spoke volumes about …
Read More »Here’s why we haven’t seen Spider-Man’s Spider Sense in the MCU… yet
Spider-Man may have a bunch of cool gizmos and gadgets with his Stark-made suit in Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens in new tab) and, yet, there’s one key component missing: Spider Sense. Director Jon Watts, though, has revealed exactly why we haven’t seen Spidey’s sixth sense – and there’s a very good …
Read More »4 things that set Destiny 2s new social space, The Farm, apart from The Tower
We know that Destiny 2 (opens in new tab) opens with the destruction of The Last City, and that much of the game will be spent fighting to take back that last refuge of humanity. But where are we going to hang out in our downtime? With The Tower destroyed, …
Read More »Fainting and Lucas going “apeshit” – heres the little-known story behind The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars nearly killed George Lucas. The director’s ambitious space saga, which nobody understood nor cared about (not even its cast) looked set to be a disaster of intergalactic proportions. During production in 1976, the special effects department was struggling with its groundbreaking technologies, while unbearable heat in Tunisia had …
Read More »Watch GTA Onlines new, secret alien mission – could this be the end of the Chiliad Mystery?
Four years of GTA 5 (opens in new tab) alien mysteries later and the truth may finally be here. The enigmatic alien egg (opens in new tab) is obtainable in the game via a supply run mission in GTA Online (opens in new tab), and collecting it seems to do… …
Read More »The 34 best cult movies of all time
What is a cult movie? A movie about cults? Nope, the term ‘cult movie’ is typically applied to any motion picture that attracts a cult-like following. Usually it’s for an older film, or perhaps one that under-performed at the box office. At other times, cult interest will spring up around …
Read More »Why GLOW is the greatest TV show about wrestling (that’s not really about wrestling)
***Contains spoilers for GLOW*** “You’re so real!” This backhanded compliment is grunted to Alison Brie’s Ruth Wilder during life-ruining sex in the first episode of GLOW, a new Netflix show from the creators of Orange is the New Black. The words are deliberately chosen. ‘Real’ is a concept which haunts …
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