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This week, we’re highlighting the top five titles in our Game of the Year 2014 list. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor ranks at #4 – and here’s Ashley Reed’s take on what makes it so awesome. It’s funny how life can surprise you. Back in the ancient, bygone days of September …

Anyone who’s played it or read our Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions review will know just how brilliant this game is. But are you brilliant at Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions? Now there’s a question. If the answer is “hell no!” then you’ll be pleased to hear you’re about to get a …

BATMAN BC… After dusting off the swords-and-sandals sub-genre with Gladiator in 2000, Sir Ridley Scott now has a crack at reviving the Biblical epic. Such movies were big, in every way, in the ’50s and ’60s, when pictures like Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, King Of Kings, The Ten Commandments and The …

Release Date: 1 December 2014448 pages | Hardback Author: Jill LeporePublisher: Scribe Right from the start, it was no secret to DC’s editors that Wonder Woman was disconcertingly kinky; fan letters from bondage fetishists only confirmed it. No secret either that her creator, William Moulton Marston, meant her to be …

Forget everything you think you know about remastered video game rereleases, because new-gen Grand Theft Auto 5 punches the rule book, steals its car, and then reverses back over the battered, leathery remains just to be sure. The obvious question is ‘should I buy GTA 5 all over again?’ to …

From humans to Qunari, love, lust, and affection aren’t foreign concepts to the genders and races of Dragon Age: Inquisition (opens in new tab); this is a Bioware game after all. Not only are there more opportunities for romance and sex compared to the last two Dragon Age games, but …

Winter is coming There’s condensation on your windows and ice on your windscreen: yup, its definitely winter again now. The cold can be more than just an inconvenience, though. It can be a killer. In some horror movies, extreme temperatures are as deadly as any monster. If you’re stuck in …

This offbeat black comedy from writer/director Zach Clark follows Suzanne (the superb Anna Margaret Hollyman), an estate agent about to move to Hawaii with TV weatherman husband Jeff. But returning home one December day, she finds Jeff brutally murdered. Against a Christmas-is-coming backdrop, Suzanne juggles grief with some revelations about …

The Pokemon formula is a classic: collect monsters, shove them in your pockets, fight everyone you make eye contact with. There’s always the same number of Gym badges to collect (eight FYI, though you probably knew that already) and there’s always an evil organisation or two to topple in the …

There’s something very different about this year’s spate of big-name FPS. Jetpacks. Jetpacks all over the place. Where once the plodding, funneled, straightforward shooting of the modern military man-killer dominated the AAA spectrum, now we have something altogether freer, more flowing, and almost pathologically obsessed with its newfound Y-axis. Even …