October, 2013

• 28 October

  What game disappointed you the most? – Ask GamesRadar

  

  Hello, dear readers! GamesRadar has an awesome community and we love hearing from you. We love it so much, in fact, that we created a show just for you! Our Community Manager Greg Henninger is going to sit down every week and answer your burning questions. This week’s questions come …

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• 28 October

  Cutie And The Boxer review

  

  ‘The Boxer’ is octogenarian artist Ushio Shinohara, famous for ‘action paintings’ that treat canvases as punchbags. ‘Cutie’ is long-suffering wife Noriko, who abandoned her own career to support her eccentric husband. The catch? Ushio’s work never really sold. Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary is a plaintive portrait of this odd couple, scrabbling …

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• 26 October

  Project Wild Thing review

  

  With his kids forever glued to the telly, David Bond’s irreverent doc sees the director elect himself “marketing director of Nature” to rekindle Britain’s lost love affair with the great outdoors. Bond’s cute gimmick is to hire branding gurus to inspire sun-starved children to down their iPads and roam wild; …

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• 25 October

  Batman: Arkham Origins review

  

  I’m the goddamn Batman, perched atop a snow-covered hat shop and planning my next move. I could go try to find Black Mask–that bastard put a price on my head and now every two-bit criminal with a shtick is trying to gun me down–but it makes more sense to head …

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• 25 October

  A Magnificent Haunting review

  

  Aspiring actor Pietro (Elio Germano) can’t believe his luck when he bags his dream Rome apartment. But guess what? It’s already occupied by the ghosts of a theatrical troupe who vanished during WW2. A gentle comedy about a gay man’s attachment to old-school notions of romance, Ferzan Ozpetek’s film is …

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• 23 October

  Spaceship commercial shows off Star Citizens 4K visuals

  

  This commercial for a ship in Star Citizen was made entirely with in-game assets, according to Developer Roberts Space Industries. The massively crowdfunded and massively multiplayer space combat game from the creator of Wing Commander is, graphically speaking, out of this world. RSI is developing the game with 4K resolutions …

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• 23 October

  Wii Party U review

  

  Wii Party U, like Wii Party before it, is essentially Mario Party minus the personality and pizazz. Its Mii-centric cast brings with it a slew of new minigames and modes that make the best of what the Wii U has to offer, tapping into GamePad’s unique functionality in addition to …

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• 22 October

  Dark Matter pulled from Steam over abrupt ending

  

  Dark Matter went up on Steam and Good Old Games last week. This week, the survival-horror sci-fi platformer was pulled from both services for its abrupt and, to many players, unsatisfying ending. Iceberg Interactive CEO Erik Schreuder said in a Steam Community post that it is working on a “a …

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• 18 October

  Watch the first trailer for Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones online now

  

  The first trailer has arrived for Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones , the first official spin-off from the supernatural series, which introduces a cast of Latino characters to the pesky demon that has stalked the previous films. Described by series creator Oren Peli as a “cousin” to the main series …

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• 18 October

  Exclusive VHS 2 Gareth Evans Safe Haven Directors Commentary

  

  It’s been acclaimed as the best segment in V/H/S 2 (opens in new tab) by fans and critics alike, so we decided to sit down with Gareth Evans to find out just how he put Safe Haven together – by watching the full film and talking over it. If you …

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