Hairdo? More like Hair don’t. Some of the most interesting hairstyles in gaming sprang from the Final Fantasy series’ love for inexplicable spikes and unnatural shades. Here’s our tribute to a few of the most feathery, fluttery, physics-defying contraptions that Square Enix ever had the nerve to call “hair”.

Are you still waiting for a third Condemned game almost seven years later? It looks like franchise co-creator Jace Hall, who owns the rights, doesn’t intend to pick the series back up any time soon… so he wants to give it to someone else to work on, instead. Hall wrote …

The second Marvel series slated to hit Netflix, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, has added another name to its ever-expanding cast. The comic book studio announced today that The Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss has now joined the anticipated TV series. Headlined by Krysten Ritter in the titular role, the show will orbit …

X-Men: Apocalypse is set to restore a familiar face to its roster of characters, with Rose Byrne lined up to return to action as Moira McTaggart. Last seen in X-Men: First Class, Byrne sat out most recent outing Days Of Future Past, but according to producer Simon Kinberg, she will …

Does what it says on the tin. Two teachers at an elite prep school – one an alcoholic wordsmith (Clive Owen), the other an arthritis-impaired painter (Juliette Binoche) – come to metaphorical blows over the respective merits of art and literature in a verbose rom-com that fails to convince us …

A strange thing happened to me while I was playing a nearly-finished version of Project CARS at the weekend. I was using a single-seater ‘Formula C’ car at Oulton Park. I’d been using cockpit cam for a couple of hours, but I cycled through the other views just to see …

Come test your sci-fi knowledge against the readers of SFX, and be in with a chance of winning a prize from the SFX locker. Don’t let your brain go to waste – why not use those SF-loaded synapses for the betterment of mankind. Every month the SFX perts mailbag is …

With X-Men: Apocalypse set to focus on the younger versions of our favourite mutants, James Marsden has revealed he approves of the actor who’ll play a teen version of Cyclops. Last week, Bryan Singer revealed that Tye Sheridan (Mud) had been cast as the spec-wearing mutant, and it seems like …

How to train your nurse-bot… Michael Bay’s Autobots have nothing on young inventor Hiro’s microbots. Once assembled into group formations by human braincontrol, beating bigger ’bots in back-alley fights isn’t all they’ve got. Treated with love, they can combine to assume any shape imaginable, building wondrous worlds. Like Hiro’s microbots, …

Short cuts, cut short… Playing like an Antipodean Short Cuts, The Turning was a major cultural event when it was released in Australia in 2013. Adapted from a celebrated 2005 book of loosely interlocking short stories by Tim Winton, it saw 18 directors bring Winton’s writings to life across 180 …