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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”.

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 …

New generation, new comparisons This article is brought to you by TechRadar (opens in new tab) to celebrate its brand-new design. TechRadar is a global technology news and reviews site, read by more than 20 million people a month. The PS3 was always a pretty good media streamer. Netflix looked …

Can’t have the ‘games’ without the ‘video’… Not even the strangest-smelling games journalists are asking ‘how many floating points’ a game has any more. Obviously it depends how many you score (fnar), but I am so pleased to say that we’ve all got past the stage of citing polygon counts …

Not the sharpest tools in the shed In cinemas vast back catalogue of memorable characters lies a category that separates the wheat from the chaff. For every confident swaggerer (think John Waynes entire resume) theres a dim-witted fool (think Ruprecht). Sure, these oddballs might not possess the charisma or wit …

This week, we’re highlighting the top five titles in our Game of the Year 2014 list. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor ranks at #4 – and here’s Ashley Reed’s take on what makes it so awesome. It’s funny how life can surprise you. Back in the ancient, bygone days of September …

So it turns out there’s a new Star Wars trailer doing the rounds at the minute and err, it’s absolutely bloody fantastic! I mean, did you see it (opens in new tab)?! With the lightsaber and the Stormies and the Millennium Falcon whooshing all around. It was… it was… arrrghhh! …

Winter is coming There’s condensation on your windows and ice on your windscreen: yup, its definitely winter again now. The cold can be more than just an inconvenience, though. It can be a killer. In some horror movies, extreme temperatures are as deadly as any monster. If you’re stuck in …

There’s something very different about this year’s spate of big-name FPS. Jetpacks. Jetpacks all over the place. Where once the plodding, funneled, straightforward shooting of the modern military man-killer dominated the AAA spectrum, now we have something altogether freer, more flowing, and almost pathologically obsessed with its newfound Y-axis. Even …