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WIN! A COPY OF THE ART OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (opens in new tab) To celebrate the release of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 on 11 July , we’re giving three lucky readers the chance to win a hardback copy of The Art Of How To …

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) The Road Trip Moment: En route to California for little Olive’s beauty pageant, the Hoover family suffers a major setback when grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin) dies. Why It’s Crazy: The family sneak his body out of the hospital, pile him into the van and illegally transport …

Break out the party hats and pop the champagne! It’s here – issue 250 of the galaxy’s greatest SF magazine. To celebrate, we reveal the top 250 moments in sci-fi, fantasy and horror… as decided by YOU! Plus a free True Blood poster with every print edition! Get your copy …

DOA (1950) The Noir There’s a lot of debate about what makes a proper film noir (for the record, this list excludes any of the ‘neo-noirs’ like Blood Simple, Chinatown, Blade Runner and Se7en that would otherwise have made the cut), but there’s no question about Rudolph Maté’s classic. “I …

Do you remember E3 2011? When everything Sony said was underpinned with an assurance that 3D was the future–and PlayStation 3 was going to be right at the heart of that future? Well, that didn’t last long. Sony cannily recognised that its customers didn’t share that vision, and quietly got …

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Tragic True Story: On 22 August 1972, John Stanley Wojtowicz attempted to rob a bank (along with Salvatore Naturale and Robert Westenberg) in order to pay for the sex reassignment surgery of Wojtowicz’s transgender partner, Ernest Aron. Wojtowicz was arrested but Naturale was killed by …

We’re doing two bonus episodes next week, so this week’s is short but sweet. We talk about Tomodachi Life, and discuss the things we’re most excited to find out about at E3. Hosts: Hollander Cooper, Sophia Tong, Henry Gilbert, Ashley ReedQuestion of the week: What are you most looking forward …

Silver lining Not every game can be BioShock or The Last of Us–for every critically-acclaimed hit, there are dozens of games that end up in the bargain bin. Some of these are total train-wrecks (I’m looking at you, Ride to Hell: Retribution), but others actually have some damn good ideas …

We prep for E3 2014 and run down the biggest rumors going into the show, covering new games from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and more. Hosts: Hollander Cooper, Sophia Tong, Henry Gilbert, Ryan Taljonick, Question of the week: What’s your craziest E3 2014 prediction? Let us know to possibly win a …

The latest phase in Valve’s bid for world domination went live yesterday: Steam In-Home Streaming (opens in new tab). The feature, built into the Steam platform, will allow PC gamers to stream games over a home network from one PC to another. It’s the next step in getting PC gamers …