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Inception star Ken Watanabe has reportedly been approached to join the cast of the upcoming Akira remake, and intriguingly, it appears he has been offered the same part that was initially earmarked for Gary Oldman. According to Twitch , Watanabe is in line to play The Colonel, a government official …

Can you believe it’s been so long since the release of Doom 3 that id Software has finally released the source code for free to the net? It seems like just yesterday we were switching between gun and a flashlight, shooting demonic monsters you’d see on the front of an …

Back the day when we were thankful to play whatever Japanese RPGs we were given, we looked wistfully at all the huge titles that never came to the US, including Final Fantasy V. English-speaking players couldn’t officially familiarize themselves with the game until it was released on the PlayStation, but …

Konami has released an online demo for its upcoming solve-’em-up, Doctor Lautrec & the Forbidden Knights. The preview bundles a few of the game’s puzzles and early plot sequences, giving players a taste of what to expect when the 3DS title’s released in the US this December. Click here (opens …

Despite boasting a prime example of dream casting in the form of Angelina Jolie, the first two Tomb Raider films were largely derided as one-paced misfires boasting little or no invention whatsoever. For that precise reason, there have been relatively few complaints aimed towards the franchise reboot proposed by Hugo …

Tales Studio, the independent developer responsible for the Tales series of RPGs since 1995’s Tales of Phantasia, has been closed (opens in new tab) by parent company Namco Bandai. But Tales fans can take comfort in the fact that upcoming titles in the series haven’t been cancelled – however, with …

It’s been quite the eventful week in gaming, so why not check out what our sister sites and publications thought of the biggest happenings? There’s loads to choose from, from cringe-worthy chat-up lines readers of ONM would aim at Zelda Williams to Hideo Kojima revealing that Snake really should have …

NBC green lights a pilot for the Bryan Fuller makeover over the ’60s sitcom

David Yates, veteran of the last four Harry Potter movies, has revealed he’s working with the BBC to produce a movie version of long-running and much-loved sci-fi series Doctor Who . “We’re looking at writers right now,” said Yates to Variety . “We’re going to spend two to three years …

Hackers took a few months off after taking down the PlayStation Network and a number of other websites, but it appears their vacation is over. Only a week after defacing the Steam forums and digging into users’ personal information, hackers have apparently targeted MyResistance and GlobalResistance, two Resistance websites run …