For the past couple of years NVIDIA has been valiantly plugging away at establishing its own entertainment platform on its own terms, first with the SHIELD portable (opens in new tab) – an all-in-one portable device built into a controller with its own 720p multi-touch display – and then with …
Read More »Rick Baker auction to see $750,000 worth of props go on sale
A chance to own a piece of movie magic is on the horizon, with $750,000 worth of prop masks, puppets and costumes from legendary makeup effects artist Rick Baker set to go under auction tomorrow. Collectors and fans will be able to bid at no reserve on 417 lots from …
Read More »Is 2K teasing a new Bioshock? UPDATE: XCOMs looking like a strong option
UPDATE: There’s some pretty compelling evidence to suggest that this might be XCOM related. Posting on a Take Two forum, user Hobbes__ (opens in new tab) discovered these images in the concept art: The use of two images from XCOM Enemy Unknown suggest a strong link to the series, along …
Read More »Vlambeers Rami Ismail on broadening gamings cultural range
Rami Ismail bids us “good morning” in a voice that betrays his jetlagged state. It’s little wonder he’s tired: three weeks earlier, he left his studio in Utrecht, flying to Chicago to take part in a game jam during the 52-hour train journey from the Windy City to GDC in …
Read More »The Little Prince reaction: Cannes 2015
This animated adaptation is visually impressive, but falls short when it comes to story. Here’s Jordan Farley’s reaction… Since its publication in 1943 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s illustrated novella The Little Prince has become one of the best-selling books ever made, with nearly two million copies bought every year. It’s beloved, …
Read More »Vivica Foxs character not a stripper in Independence Day 2
The long-gestating sequel to Independence Day is finally looming on the horizon, with returning star Vivica A Fox giving an update on what we can expect from her character in round two. The new film will be set some fifteen years after the events of the original, with Earth readying …
Read More »Blizzard talks Hearthstones future: “We cant just keep adding cards forever”
Have you heard of Hearthstone (opens in new tab)? It’s quite popular in that ‘maybe an intervention is in order’ kind of way. Speaking to GamesMaster, director Eric Dodds wants it to stay like that, he just hasn’t worked out how yet. “I want Hearthstone to be played over a …
Read More »Green Room reaction: Cannes 2015
Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) directs an unlikely siege movie starring Patrick Stewart as a neo-Nazi. Here’s Jordan Farley’s reaction… Almost every year a film screening out of competition in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes becomes the talking point of the festival, with whispered hyperbole (or justified praise) spreading along the …
Read More »Opinion: “The RPG-ification of video games has reached critical mass”
No, this isn’t another ‘contrary’ dig at the cult of Destiny (opens in new tab), dear reader. Instead, my potent ire is directed at something far broader and mainstream than men, women and children who get up at the crack of dawn to mine spinmetal with their chums. My beef …
Read More »Poltergeist review
They’re here. Again… “If you really wanna make some money quick, a poltergeist abduction isn’t a bad idea…” So says paranormal investigator Boyd (Nicholas Braun) halfway into Gil Keenan’s slick update of the 1982 Steven Spielberg/Tobe Hooper spook film. The executives at Ghost House Pictures (Evil Dead, The Possession, Boogeyman), …
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