Robopocalypse author Daniel H Wilson discusses the rise of our robot overlords (and gives his advice to new writers)… When Steven Spielberg is committed to directing a novel based on one of your books, you’ve made it. That’s the case with Daniel H Wilson’s Robopocalypse , which also made fans …

Let me begin Back in my college days, I was forced to take a speech class in order to complete my degree. Being that I didnt have any great fear of public speaking, I figured this would be a simple class I could easily breeze through. The professor I ended …

Rogue fans rejoice, as Vulture has confirmed that the energy-absorbing mutant has not been cut from X-Men: Days Of Future Past after all. Anna Paquin was always going to be a minor player in the new film, but it had seemed that she would be missing altogether when Bryan Singer …

When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a re-reboot of course! And that’s exactly what Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes is planning for the Friday 13th franchise… Having acquired the rights to the franchise back in 2009, Bay rebooted the series for a first time, hiring Marcus …

Adapted for the screen by the author, John Banville’s Booker Prize winning novel becomes a heavy, sometimes gruelling meditation on memory and grief. Historian Max (Ciarán Hinds) seeks to recover from the death of his wife by returning to the Irish seaside location of a dark childhood tragedy. We live …

Please go easy on me Fighting game bosses are built from the ground up to be the most unfair, cheap duels possible. Think about it in the context of a ’90s arcade: You’ve sunk an outrageous amount of quarters and minutes of your time into this arcade machine, fighting tooth …

James Dean’s final film, released in 1956 after his death, makes for a disappointing epitaph. The combination of director George Stevens and source novelist Edna Ferber, both given to expressions of overblown high seriousness, yields a long, slow, achingly self-important movie. Rock Hudson is a cattle baron, Dean is a …

How long has it been since we last played with our digital building blocks? Three games based off the popular Lego playsets in six months is a multicolored plastic brick overload, especially since each game in the series feels all too similar to the last. And yet, it’s amazing what …

They’re a couple of misfits… Shooter, action-adventure, RPG, fighting as long as Ive been playing games, theyve all fit into a categorical genre that allows me to know what Im getting into before I even press Start. I knew Final Fantasy was a role-playing epic before I even opened the …

It’s another week, and another chance to surf the FutureWeb for glistening geeky gems. Here’s the best of the rest… CVG Beyond Titanfall – check out CVG’s list of the best Xbox One games available this year. Finished Infamous ? Then you need our guide to the best PS4 games …