Now that the game is enjoying its official 10-Year Anniversary and has recently been mobilised for mobile devices, Rockstar has been revealing some very cool behind-the-scenes secrets about Grand Theft Auto III over on its site. It clears up – amongst other things – how much content was removed/changed following …

PlayStation 3 enthusiasts got their first taste of House of the Dead last year when the swear-tastic House of the Dead: Overkill was ported from Wii to PS3. Apparently that was just the start, as Sony’s system and its wonder wand Move are getting another taste of rotting zombie flesh. …

SFX ’s comics fanatic Stacey Whittle names her favourites reads from the past 12 months

Lavish version of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe will be “a rougher, more elemental telling of the story”

There’s plenty of ‘bang’ for your buck in Steve McQueen’s second feature. Yet Shame’s long, hard look at sex addiction proves anything but sexy. Think harsh, haunting and powerful instead. As in his blazing debut Hunger , McQueen plays Scorsese to Michael Fassbender’s De Niro, the star owning the film …

Plus Alpha is a weekly column that explores life in Japan from the perspective of American expatriate and game-industry veteran Jarik Sikat. Having worked in numerous areas of the game industry since 1994, Sikat relocated to Japan in 2010. Think fast: If you had 24 hours in Japan, what do …

New Street Fighter x Tekken screenshots released via the game’s Xbox Live Marketplace page reveal two new characters for the title. The shot, which features Bison and Ling Xiaoyu hiding above the life bar, doesn’t give players much to go on: all you really know now is that Bison will …

SFX.co.uk editor Dave Golder reveals what he’s getting most excited about… and a few things that are filling him with dread…

Shenmue, Sega’s long-dormant open-world adventure, just can’t catch a damn break. Fans spent 2011 waiting for a smartphone port of social spinoff Shenmue Gai (aka Shenmue World or Shenmue Town). But Ysnet, the game’s developer, quietly announced over the Christmas break that instead of expanding Shenmue Gai onto new platforms, …

We’ve teamed up with Entertainment One to give you the chance to attend an early screening of Goon , the foul-mouthed ice-hockey comedy starring Seann William Scott, in London on 5 January 2012. And it’s not just any screening… Winners will be getting exclusive VIP treatment, including drinks, at this …