April, 2014

• 28 April

  Exclusive new photos from behind the scenes at Hammer Horror

  

  Remember this scene from spooky Hammer Horror flick The Woman In Black ? Well, this is an exclusive behind the scenes shot showing that, yes, Daniel Radcliffe really did submerge himself in a soupy bog for his art. It’s just one of the exclusive behind the scenes shots that we’ve …

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• 28 April

  Top 7 Game features that no one asked for

  

  Who, exactly, asked for this? You and I don’t run multimillion-dollar video game companies. We’re not fully cognizant of all the incredibly hard work, nerve-wracking deadlines, and unforeseen costs that go into making amazing games; we simply want to play and enjoy the finished product. But even if we’re not …

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• 28 April

  Kirby: Triple Deluxe review

  

  Try to ignore the stigma attached to this phrase: Kirby: Triple Deluxe is a straight platformer. It represents everything you’d expect from the genre, sticking two pink, sugar-coated fingers up at the rest of the gimmick-obsessed industry. Kirby walks, runs, and jumps through beautiful, vibrant 2.5D worlds so happily, you …

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• 25 April

  The visual evolution of Wolfenstein – From sprites to polygons

  

  Mein shooter Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992–meaning that the Wolfenstein franchises is over 20 years old. Gaming was in a much different place back then. The SNES has only just launched, and the first-person shooter genre wasn’t really a thing. Back then, the idea of walking around and shooting …

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• 25 April

  9 indie games shamelessly inspired by retro ancestors

  

  Party like it’s 1989 Blah blah indie games. Blah blah, cheap NES game rip-offs. Weve all heard the tedious battlecry of the anti-indie backlash by now. Its usually a load of old rot; an uninformed nonsense-rant that takes the pixelart aesthetic as a jumping off point and then looks no …

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• 23 April

  Jessica Chastain to play Marilyn Monroe in new biopic

  

  Jessica Chastain could be about to step into the shoes of a silver screen icon, with The Wrap reporting that she is in discussions to play Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic. According to the report, Chastain is nearing a deal to star in Blonde , Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of …

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• 23 April

  Roberto Orci hoping to replace J.J. Abrams as Star Trek 3 director

  

  Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have been Hollywood’s go-to writing partnership for a raft of major blockbuster pictures over the past decade or so, but the pair are now parting ways to pursue directorial careers. With Kurtzman already having directed 2012’s People Like Us , Orci is now keen to …

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• 22 April

  Richard Donner says Steven Spielberg has a story for Goonies 2

  

  Richard Donner has reconfirmed that a sequel to The Goonies is in the pipeline, and has revealed that Steven Spielberg has an idea in place for the new plot. “Hopefully we’re gonna get this done,” said Donner in an interview with TMZ . “Steven [ Spielberg ] came up with …

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• 22 April

  30 Most Evil Movie Computers

  

  SID 6.7 – Virtuosity (1995) The Evil Computer : A virtual reality serial killer, SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is being targeted by Lt Parner Barners (Denzel Washington). Later, of course, he transforms into a regenerating android, which means he has even more power than before. But that also makes him …

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• 21 April

  Simon Kinberg clarifies Rogues involvement in Days Of Future Past

  

  X-Men: Days Of Future Past screenwriter and producer, Simon Kinberg, has been discussing Rogue’s involvement in the film, explaining why her scenes were cut from the finished script. “It’s kind of a hard question,” said Kinberg, when grilled by Crave on the subject. “We shot with Anna [ Paquin ] …

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