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Martin Scorsese is nothing without Thelma Schoonmaker; Brian De Palma wouldn’t have changed cinema without Paul Hirsch, nor Spike Lee without Barry Alexander Brown. Great film directors are only as good as their equally great editors – the people who take the raw footage, select the best shots, and determine …

What’s the best video game controller? I’d wager that for most, it’s a discussion reduced to just two viable candidates: the Xbox 360 gamepad and the DualShock 2 – each of which were masterworks of ergonomics. Perhaps the more incendiary among us might point to the GameCube’s wireless WaveBird with …

Maybe it was being given a larger slice of the game to play with, or perhaps my homesickness for the UK has finally gotten the better of me, but Watch Dogs Legion finally feels like a world I want to spend hours in. This time around I started out as …

There’s nothing like having to fend off a pack of wolves with a wooden shovel, before sitting down in a dark hut to a diet of raw mushrooms to make you grateful for pizza, electric light, and Ikea. Medieval Dynasty is a simulation game that is far more interested in …

Entering The Oldest House in Control is a real through the looking-glass moment. The brutalist skyscraper appears less like a functional building, and more like a labyrinth designed by M.C. Escher. It doesn’t take long to see that the place is special. Whether it’s the Giant Redwoods growing in an …

Writer Al Ewing and artist Jon Davis-Hunt take Jennifer Walters on an introspective tour of past trauma in Immortal She-Hulk #1 (opens in new tab), an emotionally weighty one-shot spinning out of the events of Empyre (opens in new tab) and through the green door into the current events of …

Yakuza: Like a Dragon converts the street-brawling action of the Yakuza series into traditional, turn-based JRPG combat. I’m usually a big supporter of game franchises reinventing themselves, especially at natural break points like the arrival of a new protagonist – but I was filled with more dread than joy when …

Batman writer James Tynion IV is diving head-long into his fascination for conspiracies in the upcoming Image Comics ongoing series Department of Truth (opens in new tab) with artist Martin Simmonds. It all starts when lead character Cole Turner finds out all of the conspiracy theories you have heard and …

Guardians of the Galaxy (opens in new tab) shouldn’t have worked. Back when Marvel announced their first feature for Star-Lord et al, it was met with a collective shrug from audiences: Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Cap were established names, but hardly anyone had heard of this outlaw gang made …

As I sit trapped in my sweltering flat, sweat dripping down my chest, and Covid19 fears ricocheting around my head, it feels both surreal and oddly comforting to see my situation mirrored on a screen. Amidst a blistering British heatwave, I’m playing Stilstand, an utterly bizarre interactive comic from Danish …