February, 2015

• 6 February

  The worst hair styles in Final Fantasy

  

  Hairdo? More like Hair don’t. Some of the most interesting hairstyles in gaming sprang from the Final Fantasy series’ love for inexplicable spikes and unnatural shades. Here’s our tribute to a few of the most feathery, fluttery, physics-defying contraptions that Square Enix ever had the nerve to call “hair”.

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• 6 February

  Blockbusters curious collection of exclusive games

  

  Renter beware. Before Blockbuster came to represent the death of the brick and mortar video game rental business, it was a blue-and-gold juggernaut whose reached extended from coast to coast. In its prime, Blockbuster’s influence was so great that it actually began requisitioning video games to be released exclusively in …

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• 3 February

  New Condemned could happen if indies take the lead

  

  Are you still waiting for a third Condemned game almost seven years later? It looks like franchise co-creator Jace Hall, who owns the rights, doesn’t intend to pick the series back up any time soon… so he wants to give it to someone else to work on, instead. Hall wrote …

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• 2 February

  Carrie-Anne Moss joins Marvels A.K.A. Jessica Jones

  

  The second Marvel series slated to hit Netflix, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, has added another name to its ever-expanding cast. The comic book studio announced today that The Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss has now joined the anticipated TV series. Headlined by Krysten Ritter in the titular role, the show will orbit …

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• 1 February

  Rose Byrne will return for X-Men: Apocalypse

  

  X-Men: Apocalypse is set to restore a familiar face to its roster of characters, with Rose Byrne lined up to return to action as Moira McTaggart. Last seen in X-Men: First Class, Byrne sat out most recent outing Days Of Future Past, but according to producer Simon Kinberg, she will …

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January, 2015

• 31 January

  Words And Pictures DVD review

  

  Does what it says on the tin. Two teachers at an elite prep school – one an alcoholic wordsmith (Clive Owen), the other an arthritis-impaired painter (Juliette Binoche) – come to metaphorical blows over the respective merits of art and literature in a verbose rom-com that fails to convince us …

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• 30 January

  Why Project CARS realism actually makes it more fun

  

  A strange thing happened to me while I was playing a nearly-finished version of Project CARS at the weekend. I was using a single-seater ‘Formula C’ car at Oulton Park. I’d been using cockpit cam for a couple of hours, but I cycled through the other views just to see …

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• 28 January

  This Months SFXperts Questions

  

  Come test your sci-fi knowledge against the readers of SFX, and be in with a chance of winning a prize from the SFX locker. Don’t let your brain go to waste – why not use those SF-loaded synapses for the betterment of mankind. Every month the SFX perts mailbag is …

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• 27 January

  James Marsden talks new Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse

  

  With X-Men: Apocalypse set to focus on the younger versions of our favourite mutants, James Marsden has revealed he approves of the actor who’ll play a teen version of Cyclops. Last week, Bryan Singer revealed that Tye Sheridan (Mud) had been cast as the spec-wearing mutant, and it seems like …

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• 26 January

  Inherent Vice review

  

  Tripping Major Paul… Paul Thomas Anderson’s seventh film feels like light relief after his sixth, the heavyweight melodrama The Master. But then rather like Punch-Drunk Love, when PTA does comedy, don’t expect hearts and flowers. This is the first time revered and reclusive American author Thomas Pynchon has been adapted …

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