Woody Allen has got Cannes ’11 off to a lightly likeable and aptly French-flavoured start with his latest, Midnight In Paris. Echoing Allen’s Manhattan, the movie opens with an extended montage of postcard views of the French capital. If you think this is the writer/director romanticising Paris out of all …
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Above: A gameplay trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You should definitely watch it. If you’ve already seen it, we suggest that you watch it again anyway. It certainly can’t hurt Answers to fan questions will be posted in the coming weeks on Bethesda’s Elder Scrollsforums (opens in new …
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The map, based on publicly known information about the Abbottabad compound’s layout and dimensions, “may be used be used as a base for a bomb or hostage map at a later stage,” says its creator, Fletch. Beyond that, though, it’s a great example of games’ application as documentary tools for …
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Extreme PortalCraft opens a blue portal in the original Portal, creates an orange portal within Minecraft, and drops all the key elements of the former into the latter while nobody’s looking. The central technology doesn’t suffer a bit from being downgraded into Minecraft’s 8-bit aesthetic, while sounds and gravity mechanics …
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The first trailer for the fifth Final Destination movie has landed online. Basically championing more of the same, this latest entry in the never-ending kill-a-thon franchise sees the survivors of another massive disaster (this time a suspension bride collapsing) picked off one by one. New methods for mutilation include an …
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Like Runescape? Fancy playing Jagex’s new game 8Realms for free? Well here’s your chance! Every day this week, PC Gamer will be giving away beta keys (up to 50,000 of ’em!), allowing gamers to play the full game for free for a period of time. The game is browser-based and …
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Despite previous implication from Sony that the reboot of the PSN might have started by now, it hasn’t. The roll-out of the new, stronger, more mightily fortified PSN citadel was always planned as a progressive process, with various services drip-fed until the beast fully returned in its new, more heavily-defended …
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The launch of Ubisoft Motion Pictures wasannounced this week in Variety (opens in new tab), meaning it came into the world via that publication’s signature style of nonsensical, made-up-on-the-spot showbiz argot (meaning language – we’re easing ourselves in here). So when they say “shingle,” they just mean “a company for …
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From a galaxy far, far away – California to be exact – Lucasfilm have announced the long anticipated Star Wars Blu-ray boxset… …all 9 discs of it. The force is strong with this one. The set will contain digitally remastered versions of all 6 films, though not included is the …
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Paul W.S. Anderson has signed on to direct an apocalyptic disaster movie entitled Pompeii . That’s ‘disaster’ as in the genre, not the end result. The Resident Evil guru presumably got the gig as a second choice to Roland Emmerich, the latter having stepped away from big budget end-of-worlders for …
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