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There should always be light at the end of the tunnel, says the author of the The Boy With The Porcelain Blade This is a guest blog by author Den Patrick whose new book The Boy With The Porcelain Blade is published on Thursday 20 March… Like many readers of …

Free-to-Play isnt a dirty phrase You ever noticed that the less money you have, the more you want to buy something? It doesnt have to be anything specific, you just want to buyanything. Just because youve got the money burning a hole in your pockets. Well, you wont have to …

Video games are weird. No two ways about it. And video games from the ’80s and ’90s are the weirdest of all. Tiny yellow circle-men eating pills in mazes full of ghosts. Global wars against alien invasion fleets, in which we wisely elect to send only one ship at a …

It’s fun to think about virtual reality’s best-case scenario: a theoretical future in which we all run around in living rooms that have treadmill floors, immersed in whatever types of gaming experiences only VR can offer. But that’s a long ways off. The Oculus Rift still isn’t available to consumers, …

Hollywood is now well into the business of making superhero movies, and, with so many film adaptations of properties once confined to the pages of a comic, it’s amazing that some fully established actors and actresses haven’t seen a single sniff of superheroics on their CV. But that can all …

In a world where international travel is now impossible, Ryan Taljonick and Henry Gilbert have only their memories of a trip to Japan to cheer them up. Join them as they reminisce about the time they visited the offices of Kojima Productions and Platinum Games to see Metal Gear Rising: …

SFX ‘s sister magazine Science Uncovered explains how antimatter could power starships But scientists are now just learning how to create antimatter in meaningful amounts – to understand it’s properties and to learn how it might be used to propel spacecraft to other solar systems. In the March edition of …

Developed by Nintendo R&D1–the outfit later responsible for classics like Kid Icarus and Metroid–it featured now-iconic characters like Glass Joe and Bald Bull as well as lesser-known fighters like Pizza Pasta. It was also the first title with music by Koji Kondo, the composer of unforgettable Nintendo songs like the …

The Truman Show (1998) The Unlikely Leading Man: Rubber-faced goofball Jim Carrey, who’d previously spent most of his time in outlandish comedies like Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber. Here, he plays Truman, who’s the unwitting lead in a complex reality TV show. How He Got The Part: It was …

It’s All The President’s Superheroes ! It’s even got Robert Redford in it (opens in new tab) One thing Marvel has proved since it moved into the moviemaking arena is that it never likes to cover the same ground twice. Captain America’s second solo outing on the big screen is …