With Harmonix’s Rock Band having barely emerged alive from the Plastic Instrument Wars of 2008, the former’s no longer bound by its feud with the Rock Band franchise, which threw its final horns last year (Activision ends the Guitar Hero franchise (opens in new tab)). Now there’s no competitor at …

Sony’s going all-out to impress upon you just how much work’s going into upcoming free-play MMOFPS PlanetSide 2. A previous PlanetSide 2 timelapse clip shows the birth (opens in new tab) of one of the game’s new large-scale weapons – but as you can see from this developer walkthrough (via …

Holy downloadable content, Batman! Those pesky trophy and achievement lists always give the game away, don’t they? Looks like it’s the case again, as a trophy list for the fourth DLC installment for Batman: Arkham City reveals that Harley Quinn and Robin will be involved and perhaps even playable in …

On The Road , the Jack Kerouac adaptation that once felt like it would never get made, is hitting cinemas later this year, and three new character posters have been revealed over at the film’s Facebook page. The new ones come in addition to the Viggo Mortensen and Tom Sturridge …

Wrath Of The Titans is unleashed in cinemas this week, and to stoke your interest with got a video interview with stars Sam Worthington and Toby Kebbell and director Jonthan Liebesman. Wrath catches up with Perseus some years after the events of Clash Of The Titans ; he’s now a …

Judging from what we’ve played so far, Max Payne 3 seems to do an admirable job of preserving the feel and rhythms of its more old-school predecessors. However, it’s also bringing a lot of modern tropes to the series, including sticky cover, (optional) lock-on aiming, and (perhaps most unexpected of …

Winner: Mass Effect 3 Read the review (opens in new tab) From beginning to end, Mass Effect 3 is an action-packed adventure, with a stunning story and some of the best combat in recent memory. Fighting back the Reaper threat – one that has been teased for two full games …

With the last four instalments in the Harry Potter franchise under his belt, David Yates is ditching Hogwarts but holding onto Emma Watson for his next venture, Your Voice In My Head . Based on the memoir of the same name by Emma Forrest, who is also providing the screenplay, …

Good news. Delicious-looking indie game Fez has finally got a release date. It’s going to be hitting Xbox Live Arcade on Friday 13 April. More good news. It’s priced at 800 Microsoft Points, which in understandable straightforward currency translates as $10 or £6.85 or 9.60 Euros. If Fez is as …

(opens in new tab) Okay, so the season two finalé episode of The Walking Dead achieved record ratings in the States. The show is clearly doing well. But the first half of this season saw the show floundering. Even after that storming finalé, there are still a lot of things …