We’re diving into a diverse set of premium and free new releases for the iPad this week, with the paid options headlined by Pulse: Volume One, a striking and original rhythm game, as well as Siege Hero HD, which sort of plays like a first-person Angry Birds. And then there’s …
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Hello fright fans, my name’s Sam Ashurst and I’m Total Film’s resident cult horror expert. I spend so much time banging on about ’70s giallo movies, ’80s VHS trash classics, ’90s serial killer flicks and ’00s foreign chillers that TF have finally decided to give me my own column. Possibly …
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Did Alice really burn her own family to death as a child? We presume not, but who knows? She is completely, utterly mad, and as 10 years in an asylum and round-after-round of vintage therapy sessions have proven useless, only the memories she recovers in Wonderland can reveal the truth. …
Read More »Ocarina of Time 3D: Hands-on with boss rush and… ugh, the Water Temple
Imagine my surprise when I walked into an Ocarina of Time appointment and immediately heard “today you’ll be playing the Water Temple.” After fainting, barfing, then barfing until I fainted again, I was able to shed off 13-year-old PTSD long enough to try the new 3D version of said temple, …
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SFX Blogger Alasdair Stuart immerses himself in the virtual world of Cylons
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The quiz of the week honours the great makers. You know their names; can you recognise their faces?
Read More »SFX Issue 209
Celebrate the Summer Of Superheroes with the new issue of SFX, on sale now
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We love Rez at GamesRadar, so much so that we included it in our 100 best games of all time (opens in new tab) at the #84 slot. Child of Eden, the spiritual successor to Rez by creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi, easily takes the seed that Rez planted and builds upon …
Read More »White Knight Chronicles II hands-on preview – does this series deserve a second chance?
I’ll come right out and say that I thought the first White Knight Chronicles was garbage. Its two main selling points – the crazy knight powers and the MMO-style multiplayer – were both complete disappointments. Not only were the knight powers sadly underwhelming, but the story campaign was also marred …
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SFX Blogger Steven Ellis goes all Biff! Badoom! Kapow!
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