It’s fitting that you’d fight the Skeleton Lords in a room made of bones. When the encounter begins, three large skeletons (the lords, presumably) assault you at once. Together, they–as well as the skeleton minions they summon–share one giant health pool. Try to knock out one of the melee lords …

There should always be light at the end of the tunnel, says the author of the The Boy With The Porcelain Blade This is a guest blog by author Den Patrick whose new book The Boy With The Porcelain Blade is published on Thursday 20 March… Like many readers of …

While it only pops up in the end credits, covered by Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen’s gentle, mystifying song ‘Suzanne’ seems like a guiding light for French writer/director Katell Quillévéré’s second feature. The lines “You know that she’s half crazy/But that’s why you want to be there” certainly chime with the …

Free-to-Play isnt a dirty phrase You ever noticed that the less money you have, the more you want to buy something? It doesnt have to be anything specific, you just want to buyanything. Just because youve got the money burning a hole in your pockets. Well, you wont have to …

Video games are weird. No two ways about it. And video games from the ’80s and ’90s are the weirdest of all. Tiny yellow circle-men eating pills in mazes full of ghosts. Global wars against alien invasion fleets, in which we wisely elect to send only one ship at a …

Imagine a flying horse. Now, imagine that horse is really a dog. Now, imagine that it’s also a guardian angel sent to watch over the soul of a roguishly charming petty criminal. This is all literally true within the narrative of Akiva Goldsman’s spectacularly barmy directorial debut, but it’s also …

I activate my focus ability to scout out the area and find an opening to sneak by the enemy patrols. A single guard stands nearby. Slowly, I inch my way behind the target and shift into the light for a moment to make my move. As quickly as I appeared, …

A Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s multi-Oscar winner? Not as redundant as it sounds: Japan’s samurai movies have long mined one another for atmosphere and backdrops. This preserves the 1880s time period, plot and much of the same dialogue – though boots the action across the Pacific, where Ken Watanabe’s …

In some of the most surprising casting news this year, Tom Hardy looks set to play both notorious London gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray in crime thriller Legend . The Dark Knight Rises (opens in new tab) star is currenlty in negotations to headline the film as the infamous, identical …

It’s fun to think about virtual reality’s best-case scenario: a theoretical future in which we all run around in living rooms that have treadmill floors, immersed in whatever types of gaming experiences only VR can offer. But that’s a long ways off. The Oculus Rift still isn’t available to consumers, …