Review

With the addition of Rise of Iron, Destiny (opens in new tab) now feels as complete as is imaginable. Its excellent – if slightly briefer than hoped – campaign delivers some of the best-crafted, story-driven action Bungie has made since Halo. Its new sandbox world brings a raft of new …

With the addition of Rise of Iron, Destiny (opens in new tab) now feels as complete as is imaginable. Its excellent – if slightly briefer than hoped – campaign delivers some of the best-crafted, story-driven action Bungie has made since Halo. Its new sandbox world brings a raft of new …

One step forward, a veritable cowboy line dance of steps back. Preacher (opens in new tab) has learned only some of the lessons it badly needs to learn as it barrels awkwardly toward its season finale. While last week’s episode was an absolute revelation (opens in new tab), finally living …

Lego game are buggy. It’s just a fact you have to put up with if you enjoy playing them. Events occasionally won’t trigger and every now and again a character gets stuck. It’s annoying, but the charm and fun the games typically provide is usually more than enough to make …

Odin Quincannon is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in Elvis Costello glasses. He is played with such beguiling, lowkey menace by Jackie Earle Hayley that I momentarily forgot that I was watching Preacher this week, believing that it had been replaced by some southern fried homage to Twin …

Where do you stand on ‘perfection’? If I told you this episode of Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) was perfect, what would that mean? Obviously, I don’t mean it’s free from all mistakes, or inconsistencies, or that certain scenes couldn’t be improved for certain parts of the audience. …

Doom’s first couple of missions deliver exactly what most of us expected from a modern iteration of the series. Fast, ferocious, movement-driven, close-range combat, running through an A-to-B level structure entwining multiple branching paths and winding levels of verticality. A pistol. A shotgun. A Doomguy. A fountain of zombies, Imps, …

The thing about zombie apocalypses is that even if you think you’re ready for them, you probably aren’t. More precisely, the part you’re ready for is the later part – when most of the world has turned and you’re scrambling for survival on an hour-to-hour basis. In some ways, the …

It’s all been building to this. From the three-way forest throw-downs and Hulk-shaped sucker punches of Avengers Assemble to Civil War’s savvy, hashtag-powered marketing campaign prompting True Believers to pick a side, the prospect of Marvel’s mightiest going toe to toe in a superhuman dust-up has been irresistibly enticing. That …

What we have here is the all-time greatest game based on a movie based on a game. Granted, the only competition is the abysmal Street Fighter: The Movie, but still – Ratchet & Clank is a thoroughly enjoyable reboot for the widely adored duo, improving on the PS2 original in …