In Eastward, John is the strong, silent type. So silent in fact that he never utters a word – and yet the people he encounters still seem to understand him. His companion is Sam, a young, hyper-enthusiastic kid with a glass-half-full attitude to anything that’s thrown in the duo’s direction. …
Read More »Shawn Levy, Joe Keery, and Jodie Comer on Free Guy, video games, and Mariah Carey
Free Guy may be a video game movie, but it’s not just a movie for people who play video games. As director Shawn Levy tells GamesRadar+, it’s bigger than that. “I confess I was a casual gamer at best before I made Free Guy,” Levy says. “In fact, in my …
Read More »Dear FromSoftware, please stop killing us with swamps
Souls franchise director Hidetaka Miyazaki hopped on a rare interview circuit after the latest Elden Ring reveal, and in the process he commented on the series’ fixation on swamp levels. “I don’t know!” he said in an interview with Russian outlet Igromania (opens in new tab). “Something makes me put …
Read More »The best student laptop deals: get the right back to school laptop for you
Finding the best student laptop deals can be difficult at the best of times, let alone during the back to school period. But the process can be made more straightforward. For a start, it’s a good idea to understand early on what kind of money you have to spend on …
Read More »The Halo Infinite beta makes one hell of a first impression
There were a lot of reasons to be nervous going into the first Halo Infinite technical preview. After suffering multiple delays, and following the decision to split the Campaign and Multiplayer components – with multiplayer launching as a free-to-play experience across the Xbox ecosystem – I was beginning to wonder …
Read More »5 What If…? comic book stories we would like to see in the Disney Plus show
Long thought impossible to adapt to the screen, What If…? is finally getting its moment to shine. Introduced by Jeffrey Wright’s Watcher, this animated series sees the intergalactic interloper visit all manner of alternative worlds in which things happen just that little bit different for our heroes. Hayley Atwell’s Peggy …
Read More »Is it just me, or is Scream 4 the franchises best?
All right, don’t everybody, ahem, scream at once. Clearly, Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher send-up is a masterpiece that challenged and changed the rules of the horror movie. But 25 years on, the Scream film I go back to most often isn’t the original. It’s the reboot. For me, the tagline …
Read More »Exclusive: WizKids will unleash its own paint line and sprue-based miniatures in 2021
Miniature painting can be intimidating if you’re just starting out. And even if you’re not, come to think of it. It’s expensive, too: there’s a dizzying variety of options to get caught up on before you put brush to paint. D&D model-maker WizKids wants to remove those obstacles. More specifically, …
Read More »How to pronounce Shang-Chi the official Marvel way
Shang-Chi and Legend of the Ten Rings, Marvel Studios’ next theatrical MCU entry opening September 3 has now released two full-length trailers and a newer shorter trailer and for the first time in the new spot, the lead character’s name is actually said out loud… …and its pronunciation may take …
Read More »Battlefield Portal is probably the closest well be able to get to Battlefield: Bad Company 3
EA has revealed Battlefield Portal, the second part of the Battlefield 2042 package. For a great many of you, it may just change the way you think about the version of all-out-warfare DICE is delivering this year. If you’re over the age of 25, and a fan of multiplayer first-person …
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