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Agent 47 is having a renaissance in 2015. Not only is Square-Enix rebooting the Hitman video game series with a new episodic game for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, I/O Interactive’s thorny assassin tale is also returning to the big screen. Hitman: Agent 47 succeeds on a fundamental level that …

Metal Gear Solid is very serious business, except for when it’s not. The series has deftly straddled the line between the solemn and the goofy, the mundane and the fantastical, ever since its inception in 1987. I can’t think of too many games that can feature a scene requiring you …

If you’ve ever sat there angrily stabbing the A button while trying to skip the obligatory tutorial section of a modern Zelda game, spare a thought for those who didn’t have the luxury of such mentoring back in the day.I was one of those poor souls, a mere six years …

Real violence hurts and has consequences, so winners don’t do punch-ups. Yet in even the weediest noob some ancient brain-part still finds fights exciting. Which is why videogames have, over the years, provided us with countless fantasy worlds revolving around a man punching another man. Few are as divine as …

“When I was hit with this concept – the seed of Perception – I wasn’t planning on starting something up. But as soon the idea came, I was like – oh man, oh man, oh man. I need to find a way to make this happen.” Bill Gardner had been …

More than just superheroes… Comics have already taken over the movies and now they’re conquering TV. We already have a swathe of superhero shows based on books from Marvel and DC: Arrow, The Flash, Gotham and more. Then there’s The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman’s enormously popular zombie comic has become …

A new trailer has dropped for drug drama Sicario, in which Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin star as a trio of key players in the ongoing battle between Mexico’s drug cartels and the law enforcers attempting to take them down. As soon becomes clear, the rules between …

We really shouldn’t be surprised that our generation are constantly berated for being the selfish ones, obsessed with instant gratification and more vain than that guy who probably thought that song was about him: we’ve grown up around games that are forever placing us in the shoes of The Most …

You know that moment when you finished the last Tomb Raider and realized that raiding tombs just wasn’t really a core concern anymore? Crystal Dynamics’ new approach led them to some exciting new areas – Resi 4-indebted over-the-shoulder gunplay, set-piece heavy virtual cinema and Japanese demonology – but those areas …

SF and fantasy imprint Gollancz have released more details of the Gollancz Festival 2015 – for which tickets are now on sale. SFX and Gamesradar+ are supporting the festival, which encompasses both physical events in London and Manchester between 15 and 18 October, and a slate of online events. The …