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If you’re familiar with ZEN Studios’ various pinball entries such as other Zen Pinball titles and the fantastic Pinball FX games, you already know that the base gameplay is great. The questions for Zen Pinball 3D, then, are what does the 3DS contribute to the formula, and are the tables …

We really, really want to love APB (All Points Bulletin): Reloaded more than we do. Yes, the original APB was riddled with enough cracks and flaws to take it from diamond-in-the-rough to half-eaten-Ring-Pop-that’s-shaped-like-a-diamond, but some of its more ambitious ideas were very nearly brilliant. And hey, Reloaded – for the …

There’s plenty of ‘bang’ for your buck in Steve McQueen’s second feature. Yet Shame’s long, hard look at sex addiction proves anything but sexy. Think harsh, haunting and powerful instead. As in his blazing debut Hunger , McQueen plays Scorsese to Michael Fassbender’s De Niro, the star owning the film …

Giving Pat answers Who fans may adore the Second Doctor, but most know very little about Patrick Troughton. An intensely private man, when he did make public appearances, he generally made them in costume and in character. Now his son, Michael (an actor himself – perhaps best known for his …

Vincente Minnelli’s 1944 MGM musical delivered wartime uplift, but its sadness for time passing also helps nail its ‘Christmas classic’ status. Sepia scenesetting snapshots burst into Technicolor, setting a tone of romantic reflection for the 1903-04 tale of a family rocked by dad’s threat of an NYC move. A poignant …

David Weissman and Bill Weber’s intensely personal documentary collates memories of when AIDS first hit San Francisco in the early ’80s. The no-frills execution largely relies on talking-head interviews with those close to the crisis, from a Castro-district flower shop owner who found himself providing for too many funerals, to …

But forget the intro you just read – let’s pretend it’s a new game and made by Joe Schmoe. Why should you care in 2011? What you get for your money is just ONE chunky polygonal race car with either automatic or manual gears, 39 opponents (up to 7 human) …

Instead of ushering itself in with a sprint, Need for Speed The Run began with a stumble when the first portion anyone saw when the game was revealed at E3 was an on-foot quick-time event. Later we were assured that these QTE moments were only 5% of the game. In …

Art Attack

It’s well scary