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Hot young things Jackson Rathbone and Erika Christensen have joined Paul Williams’ new film The Idiot . The Twilight actor and Flightplan actress will star as lovers in the feature adaptation of the Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The thriller follows a man returning to Russia from a Swiss hospital …

The first three Dragon Quest games and their 16-bit remakes are heading to the Wii. Square-Enix announced that Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Commemoration: Famicom & Super Famicom Dragon Quest I•II•III would serve as part of Dragon Quests 25th anniversary. To sweeten the deal, Square will include as-yet -unannounced bonus items …

A Prophet made big waves when it premiered in Cannes two years ago, and Revolver Entertainment are hoping to take a slice of the same cake with British prison drama Feltham . The film is about a young man who gets himself incarcerated at the young offender’s institute in Feltham, …

Woody Allen has got Cannes ’11 off to a lightly likeable and aptly French-flavoured start with his latest, Midnight In Paris. Echoing Allen’s Manhattan, the movie opens with an extended montage of postcard views of the French capital. If you think this is the writer/director romanticising Paris out of all …

Just in case you’re wondering, yes, Rachel Weisz is back. Having kept a relatively low profile since her last big movie outing, The Lovely Bones in 2009, Weisz recently entered talks to play evil witch Theodora in Sam Raimi’s Oz, The Great And Powerful . Now the Brit actress has …

Voice actor Nolan North, who’s most famous for his role as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, joked that he will “burn someone’s house down” if the upcoming film adaptation directed by David O. Russell is bad. Is this really the best person for Uncharted voice lead Nolan North to …

Above: A gameplay trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You should definitely watch it. If you’ve already seen it, we suggest that you watch it again anyway. It certainly can’t hurt Answers to fan questions will be posted in the coming weeks on Bethesda’s Elder Scrollsforums (opens in new …

The map, based on publicly known information about the Abbottabad compound’s layout and dimensions, “may be used be used as a base for a bomb or hostage map at a later stage,” says its creator, Fletch. Beyond that, though, it’s a great example of games’ application as documentary tools for …

The first trailer for the fifth Final Destination movie has landed online. Basically championing more of the same, this latest entry in the never-ending kill-a-thon franchise sees the survivors of another massive disaster (this time a suspension bride collapsing) picked off one by one. New methods for mutilation include an …

Extreme PortalCraft opens a blue portal in the original Portal, creates an orange portal within Minecraft, and drops all the key elements of the former into the latter while nobody’s looking. The central technology doesn’t suffer a bit from being downgraded into Minecraft’s 8-bit aesthetic, while sounds and gravity mechanics …