July, 2015

• 30 July

  Kings Quest – Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember review

  

  King’s Quest is back in a charismatic new game that suits the 30-year-old series to a royal tee. The marvellous first chapter in an original tale, ‘A Knight to Remember,’ succeeds not because it exhumes a classic ever so delicately, but because it breathes the spirit and visual storytelling that …

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• 24 July

  Silent Hills is dead, but the Kojima and del Toro alliance has other plans

  

  The would-be PS4-bound continuation of the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hills, is dead (opens in new tab). But the creative duo behind it – film director Guillermo del Toro and video game auteur Hideo Kojima – are just getting started. Maybe. Hopefully. In an interview with IGN, del Toro expressed …

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• 24 July

  Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation review

  

  Ethan goes dark in a colourful adventure… Ethan Hunt’s fifth impossible mission starts with its much-publicised money shot: Tom Cruise clinging to the side of an Airbus A400M. For real. It’s a crazy stunt, and to front load the film with it is equally ballsy – audiences are sure to …

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• 24 July

  Fallout 4s brighter colors exist to cheer you up, but the world is still broken

  

  When Fallout 4 (opens in new tab) was revealed by Bethesda, among the many cries of “It’s finally real!” and “Shut up and take my money!”, you might have also heard fans noticing a big change from the series’ typical gray, green and brown color palette to something with a …

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• 23 July

  Watch Gears of War: Ultimate Editions grunt-filled, locust-blasting intro cinematic

  

  The opening cinematic for Gears of War Ultimate Edition proves that Sera was a great place to get a glass of wine with a friend until Emergence Day messed it all up. The CGI short follows the (literal) rise of the locust and the near-extermination of the human race. Also …

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• 22 July

  Hayley Atwell talks LA move in Agent Carter season two

  

  Marvel’s Agent Carter is relocating to Los Angeles for its second season – and star Hayley Atwell tells SFX she’s hoping for a tantalising touch of film noir in her next bout of adventures. “I keep thinking of something like LA Confidential, especially in the 1940s,” she says. “I associate …

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• 22 July

  Full Fargo season 2 trailer goes back to the bloody 70s

  

  Wrap up warm because it’s time to head back to frozen Minnesota, with the debut for a new full-length trailer for the second series of Fargo. And judging from this new footage, the titular township seems just as off-beam as ever. Set in the ’70s, the new series will follow …

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• 22 July

  Square Enix will be watching Just Cause 3 closely thanks to the Law of Third Titles

  

  For Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda, the third time really is the charm. Speaking to Weekly Famitsu (as translated (opens in new tab) by Kotaku), Matsuda said that he believes a new intellectual property needs at least three games before its success can be reasonably judged. “Looking retrospectively at the …

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• 21 July

  The Good Dinosaur trailer will lift your spirits

  

  A full-length trailer for Disney Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur has dropped, giving us a better glimpse into the animated studio’s second big feature this year. Conjuring up a ‘what if?’ scenario, the movie takes place on a version of Earth populated by dinosaurs. After the giant asteroid that brought about …

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• 21 July

  The 25 worst Stephen King movies

  

  Disappoint-king As one of the best-selling and prolific authors of all time, its no surprise that many of Stephen Kings stories have been adapted for the screen. Unfortunately, not every one of those adaptations is worth watching. Actually, its probably fair to say that there are more bad King adaptations …

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