With a Yorke/Philip Glass soundtrack, access to the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere cameo, Dirk Simon’s documentary about Tibet’s struggle for independence would seem to push the right populist buttons. Yet it’s a surprisingly downbeat, reflective affair, as interviews with leaders and activists reveal an unsure movement rife with internal …

(opens in new tab) Arma 3 will be available in digital and retail stores worldwide from September 12, Bohemia Interactive has announced. However, the studio has also confirmed that the tactical military shooter will release without its single player campaign, which is set to be delivered across three free post-launch …

From the SFX Archives: This is an update of a feature that appeared in 2010 1 Computer Graphics (opens in new tab) Director James Cameron gave us cinema’s first true CG monster in the form of the shapeshifting T1000 in Terminator 2 (1991) having experimented with digitally-created lifeforms with the …

Sony Santa Monica is working on something “freaking huge,” and God of War II director and writer Cory Barlog is coming back to the studio to head it up. “What am I working on, you ask? Good question,” Barlog wrote on the PlayStation Blog. “Sadly, I cannot tell you… yet. …

Gotta spend money to make money One of the biggest complaints from game publishers this generation has been the rising cost of development. Its all too easy to spend tens of millions of dollars on AAA games, leading to the crazy scenario of a release being deemed below sales expectations …

Tackling the problem You cant swing a baseball bat or kick a football nowadays without hitting a sports game. Oh look another iOS game where you flick a football into a goal–how lovely. Basketball, football (or soccer, if you prefer to spell honour without the u), tennis–most popular sports have …

Sega Sammy is bidding on the financially troubled parent company of Atlus. Bloomberg Japan (via VentureBeat) reports that the house of Sonic is pursuing Index Corp., which among other operations owns Persona and Shin Megami Tensei developer/publisher Atlus. Index Corp. was opened for bids after entering civil rehabilitation, the Japanese …

It’s almost impossible, at first, to hold any scorn for Rise of the Triad, Interceptor Entertainment’s modern update of the cult classic twitch shooter. The silly one-liners, absurdly fast movement speed, and cheesy shred metal soundtrack all hark back to the days when shooters had rich color palettes and didn’t …

After 11 years, Capcom has revealed Breath of Fire 6. The next entry in the classic fantasy RPG series will arrive sometime in 2014 in Japan, but it won’t be hitting next-gen systems when it does. Instead, it’s an online game for mobile, tablet, and PC. We know a bit …

The second Deep Down trailer has revealed that the new Capcom IP is an online game. Featuring glimpses of a series of creepy monsters in a subterranean environment, it also suggests there’s a horror element to the fantasy game, which was announced for PS4 in February and runs on Capcom’s …