*Updated 09/01/2017* Four brand new mods added! I know what you’re thinking. Why bother playing Skyrim (opens in new tab): Special Edition when you’ve already sunk what my mother assures me is an unhealthy amount of hours into the original game (needless to say, I disagree)? I’ll tell you why: …
Read More »Duncan Jones new movie Mute imagines a dark world with Hasselhoff on its banknotes
In Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Warcraft) upcoming sci-fi flick Mute (opens in new tab), a man who cannot speak must venture into the dark and seedy underbelly of a Blade Runner-esque version of Berlin to find his missing love. Also in Duncan Jones’ upcoming sci-fi flick Mute, society now uses paper …
Read More »The lessons Horizon: Zero Dawn can learn from 12 years of Monster Hunter
For ages it was an obscure, niche series confined to Japan and a handful of hardcore otaku. However, the past few years have seen Monster Hunter’s popularity explode, and it has even spawned an entire new genre, hunting games that task players with stalking giant monsters to harvest their most …
Read More »Star Wars Rebels season 3 reveals old Obi-wan and (maybe) a Darth Maul rematch 18 years in the making
Star Wars Rebels has just dropped a mid-season trailer for the third season into our laps just before its return this weekend and, oh boy, is it special. The legendary Mandalorian darksaber shows up and Mon Mothma makes her first Rebels appearance but the big news is a rematch 18 …
Read More »“A masterpiece of choreography and character” – the apartment fight is The Best Bit of The Bourne Identity
Unsurprisingly, The Bourne Identity is a solid action thriller with much to recommend it. But anyone who has seen the movie will tell you that the highlight is unquestionably the fight scene that goes down in the Paris apartment. Jason Bourne is still experiencing amnesia, so he and his new …
Read More »The Walking Dead season 7 will be going back to “the thrill of the fight” according to Andrew Lincoln
Let’s face it, the first half of The Walking Dead season 7 (opens in new tab) shambled along slower than the walkers, roamers, bobbers – or whatever nifty new name the showrunners have for ‘zombie.’ But the second half of the season promises to see Rick turn into “a man …
Read More »Travel the globe with the best locations in the Street Fighter series
Get ready for broken barrels, teleporting rocks and every national stereotype you can fit on to a 2D background. We present 14 perfect, far-flung locations from the Street Fighter series – it’s called World Warrior for a reason. Las Vegas, USA – Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior Balrog’s Las …
Read More »Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Assassins Creed, Silence, A Monster Calls, more…
Out on Sunday 1 January and Friday 6 January Michael Fassbender enters the world of gaming. Scorsese blends his twin religions of Catholicism and cinema. J.A. Bayona delivers a tree-mendous fantasy. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Assassin’s Creed, Silence, A Monster Calls, and …
Read More »Exploring the wide world of wrestling with the WWE 2K series
While many see wrestling as loud Americans shouting at each other in their underpants, the first ‘W’ in ‘WWE’ stands for ‘World’, and it’s more global than you know. Following the arrival of the latest instalment, WWE 2K17, we go around the world in 80 graze. Canada – Hart House, …
Read More »Doctor Who Christmas Special review
The twelfth – twelfth! – Doctor Who Christmas special goes easy on the festive decoration. No flesh-eating snowflakes, no sentient alien tinsel, no Weeping Angel plonked on top of the tree. The Return Of Doctor Mysterio riffs on an altogether more recent tradition: the comic book blockbuster, those shiny, mega-budget …
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