We are not a strong team, so when we see a silhouette approach us from the absurdly filmic backlit subway corridor, we wordlessly stop, line up, and raise our piddly little weapons. It helps, a little. This is a human player – you can tell because he hasn’t automatically rung …

This year’s big superhero face-off will be the first live-action Batman film helmed by someone other than Christopher Nolan for nearly two decades – and new director Zack Synder has revealed that the director found it difficult to hand over the Wayne reins. Speaking to Empire magazine (opens in new …

EA and DICE finally laid out their almost-complete plans for Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab)’s post-launch content, and there’s even good news for folks without the season pass: a handful of new maps and new features are on the table for all players. But first, about that pass: …

Taking down a mammoth in Far Cry Primal (opens in new tab) is no mean feat. Don’t believe me? Just check out our video where we attempt to take on a Bloodtusk mammoth with only a bow and arrow, some spears and our wits. Not only is there the tusked …

And the Oscar goes to…? From the director of Adam Sandler’s The Cobbler comes the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, an ode to old-fashioned journalism with nary a shred of sentiment or, one histrionic scene aside, sensationalism. Tom McCarthy’s sobering drama demonstrates disciplined filmmaking built upon scrupulous storytelling, clear-eyed …

Lauren Cohan has been playing zombie apocalypse survivor Maggie Greene for five years now on AMC’s The Walking Dead, but it looks like she’s about to see what it’s like on the other side of the grave. Entertainment Weekly (opens in new tab) reports that Cohan will play the role …

Michael Fassbender will soon be reprising his role as (young) Magneto in the new X-Men film out later this year, but rather than taking on the role of the big bad, as he has in the past, this movie will see him serving a new master in the form of …

Lots of game developers have old prototypes sitting in their utility closets. Far fewer are willing to dust one off, solder some dev kit cables to a streaming setup, and broadcast the buggy old thing on Twitch. Volition is an exception, and next week we’ll get the rare treat of …

You won’t want to leave Ordon Village without your plastic figurine collection. No, not that plastic figurine collection. Nintendo has confirmed how amiibo can be used to expand and aid your journey in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, including granting access to the mysterious Cave of Shadows. As …

X-Men: Days of Future Past decimated the established timeline of the franchise. Wolverine’s time-hop to 1973 led to mutants being exposed to the public many years earlier, and if you stuck around for the final scene, a ton of character resurrections. It wiped the slate clean, effectively undoing the events …