Review

Way back when, in the decidedly bleak age when trendy kids were doing The Locomotion while Police Academy 3 – Assignment: Miami Beach played in the background (we’re talking about the bowels of 1988), a subset of PC owners were sampling videogaming’s first proper post-apocalypse. Think of how many of …

There’s a real temptation to don my cynical hat while booting up Disney’s latest contender in the behemoth toys-to-life genre. Its opening sequence (read: glorified advert), in particular, raises an eyebrow – highlighting game worlds you can’t access without shelling out for more playsets and figures. And yet, it’s hard …

Like a handsome stranger, Dragon Quest Heroes makes a great first impression. It’s beautiful, smooth and unbelievably charming. But the more time you spend with it the more you start to see its foibles, and the more it starts to grate. Like noticing that it’d be the type of person …

Machetes kill… Netflix’s first foray into feature film distribution is no easy sell: a lengthy, bloody chronicle of one child soldier’s dehumanisation, shot in Ghana with only one star name propping up a cast of novices and unknowns. Kudos to Cary Joji Fukunaga, then, for turning a 2005 novel by …

One of the smarter moves that The Walking Dead (both the show and the comic) made was in declaring the end of the world unimportant. Sure, it was a pretty big deal for the characters, but for the viewers it’s all been about the “post” part of post-apocalypse. Shit happened. …

With a great many contemporary games obsessed with rendering the real world in increasingly authentic detail, it’s refreshing to play something that goes in completely the opposite direction. The Bridge is a puzzle game that explores a bizarre, dreamlike world built from structures clearly inspired by the works of Dutch …

As you might have guessed from the name, Futurlab’s slick sci-fi actioner is a game primarily about moving very quickly. Sure, it has plenty more verbs in its vocabulary – you’ll also leap, slide, throw, shoot and teleport – but its defining characteristic is speed. You’ll earn stripes and stars …

There is a run button in The Chinese Room’s cerebral Shropshire-based exploratory story. You won’t need it. The idea here is that you’ll take the time to drink in the world you’re exploring, actively reading the clues ushering you towards always-tempting answers. How did the quaint English village of Yaughton …

It’s yawning time. It all looked so good for Josh Trank a few months ago. A cult superhero flick to his name in 2012’s Chronicle. A major-league Marvel movie in the can. And a Star Wars spin-off in the offing. And then came the mysterious departure from Star Wars and …

King’s Quest is back in a charismatic new game that suits the 30-year-old series to a royal tee. The marvellous first chapter in an original tale, ‘A Knight to Remember,’ succeeds not because it exhumes a classic ever so delicately, but because it breathes the spirit and visual storytelling that …