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Swiss Angel Delight

Zombies can’t keep diaries, but if they did they’d be pretty repetitive, something Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett’s ambitious sequel to their 2006 DV horror could also be accused of. Following a unit of soldiers across post-apocalyptic England’s snowy, corpse-strewn wastelands, it’s shot first-person, shakey-cam style. Despite an extremely bleak …

Raptor Ripper

To life’s many great imponderables – Where did we come from? What’s our purpose? Does God exist? Why did they make a fourth Scream movie? – we can now add the following question: would watching The Beaver without any awareness of Mel Gibson’s monster raving loony antics make it a …

Begged by John Waters to “make another old-school Gregg Araki movie”, the filmmaker duly obliges with an unhinged, saucy frolic that harkens back to such earlier favourites as The Doom Generation and Totally F***ed Up. The latter is one way to describe Smith (Thomas Dekker), a film studies student at …

The online shooter space has become seriously crowded in recent years, with developers rushing to fill the gaps between Modern Warfare and Battlefield. The end result of all this scrapping for your online dollar is a whole lot of garbage and a few select gems. Section 8: Prejudice is, for …

A man of many talents, most of them to do with genius cinema violence, Takashi Miike (Audition) returns with a devoutly classical, if not exactly classic, remake of a 1963 period samurai film. After assembling his (not so) dirty (baker’s) dozen, Koji Yakusho ambushes an evil lord’s army, despite being …

Here’s the thing: five years ago, if you were to tell us that puzzle games deep fried in RPG batter were going to spawn their own subgenre, we probably would have called you bat-poop nutso and laughed in your face. Now that Puzzle Quest (opens in new tab)is out, good, …

Do you know what Patapon is? Have you played the first two Patapon games to completion? If you answered “no” to one of those questions, Patapon 3 is not for you. At its core, Patapon 3 is a unique, addicting rhythm game, but reaching that core takes hours and hours …

Anomaly: Warzone Earth takes the concept of tower defense games and flips it on its head. Instead of being tasked with setting up a defense against insurmountable odds, Anomaly forces you to run the gauntlet through countless turrets, laser cannons, space monsters, etc. Turns out, this change of pace is …