Though many long-time Nintendo fans will likely recoil in horror, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said today that the Wii U’s architecture will support free-to-play gaming if developers are interested in leveraging that business model. With respect to the Wii U system, when we began working on it, one of our …

Surprisingly slow out of the blocks, this glossy, girl-power athletics drama about the UK relay-team rivalry between feisty council-estate sprinter Shania (Lenora Crichlow) and her posh rival Lisa (Lily James) feels like a TV movie on steroids. Noel Clarke, who co-scripted and co-stars, doesn’t get any Kidulthood -style grit going, …

Here, in no particular order, are some of those deaths… Feature by Steven Ellis (Oh, and feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section… there could easily be a sequel to this feature!) (opens in new tab) 1 Tasha Yar Star Trek: The Next Generation , “Skin …

Don’t call it a port, and definitely don’t call it a remake. Though the 3DS follow-up to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow harkens back to the classic two-dimensional Castlevania entries, it’s forging a decidedly-Western-style path for itself – and that’s not at all a bad thing. Ever since it was revealed …

Francis Ford Coppola & Robert Duvall The Shared CV: Duvall’s performance in Coppola’s The Rain People was rewarded with roles in all of the director’s 1970s films. All four just happen to be classics. Defining Traits: The ever versatile Duvall moved from playing watchful Tom Hagen in the first two …

StarCraft II: Heart of Swarm still doesn’t have a release date and neither does its “sometime in summer” beta, but Blizzard was eager to demo the expansion’s new multiplayer units in Anaheim, CA. There, thousands of MLG players were able to build and take command of these new units, while …

A hard-bodied hooker with a laser-sighted weapon. Robert Pattinson blasting a bloody hole through his left hand. A pounding nightclub. A man stabbed in the eye. A modified handcannon. Naked bodies. A giant rat prowling crowded city streets. Gunfire. Graffiti. Tantalising images flash by in the teaser for Cosmopolis , …

Extermination #1 Written by Si Spurrier Drawn by Jeffrey Edwards Published by Boom! The funny thing about the world ending is that it never quite gets around to it. The apocalypse is never tidy, never elegant and it always, without fail, leaves loose ends. What those loose ends are, how …

(opens in new tab) Above is the first official on-set, in costume pic of the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, and his new yet-to-have-a-confirmed-name companion (though the Internet seems pretty sure it knows what it is) played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. Below, for a bonus, are a few pics taken during filming …

Mario is back in paper form and is heading for a new adventure on the 3DS. This time around the action RPG revolves around stickers, which you use to bash enemies and solve environmental puzzles. This means you’ll have to scourer each level for stickers hidden inside Question Blocks and …