To make your way to Shiva for the final confrontation with her, you will need to jump through some hoops first. In the middle of the Bowery, you will be able to hear a baby crying, a sound that will be coming from a baby carriage in the lower section …
Read More »GTA 5s sales are absurd, but dont defeat the industrys addiction to annualization
GTA 5 (opens in new tab) has, by my math, made nearly $2 billion since it released last month. That’s absurd. That’s more than absurd. That’s put-it-in-a-straitjacket absurd. That’s lock-it-up-in-Arkham-Home-for-the-Criminally-Insane absurd. That’s kill-it-because-otherwise-it’ll break-free-and-blow-up-a-hospital absurd. It’s absurd. Truly absurd. It’s so absurd that our office actually argued for like an …
Read More »FIFA 14 comes to life in next-gen gameplay trailer
EA Sports has released a new FIFA 14 gameplay trailer showing off the Xbox One and PS4 versions of this year’s game in action. Along with this accompanying blog post, the video highlights some of the visual and gameplay enhancements made possible by EA Sports’ new Ignite engine, which is …
Read More »The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia review
A sequel in name only, Ghosts of Georgia spins off its 2009 predecessor ’s brand of ‘real-life horror’ with a story of a family whose women possess a ‘sixth sense’ that allows them to see dead people. It’s an ability that doesn’t serve them well once it’s revealed their new …
Read More »Cutie And The Boxer review
‘The Boxer’ is octogenarian artist Ushio Shinohara, famous for ‘action paintings’ that treat canvases as punchbags. ‘Cutie’ is long-suffering wife Noriko, who abandoned her own career to support her eccentric husband. The catch? Ushio’s work never really sold. Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary is a plaintive portrait of this odd couple, scrabbling …
Read More »Project Wild Thing review
With his kids forever glued to the telly, David Bond’s irreverent doc sees the director elect himself “marketing director of Nature” to rekindle Britain’s lost love affair with the great outdoors. Bond’s cute gimmick is to hire branding gurus to inspire sun-starved children to down their iPads and roam wild; …
Read More »A Magnificent Haunting review
Aspiring actor Pietro (Elio Germano) can’t believe his luck when he bags his dream Rome apartment. But guess what? It’s already occupied by the ghosts of a theatrical troupe who vanished during WW2. A gentle comedy about a gay man’s attachment to old-school notions of romance, Ferzan Ozpetek’s film is …
Read More »Batman: Arkham Origins review
I’m the goddamn Batman, perched atop a snow-covered hat shop and planning my next move. I could go try to find Black Mask–that bastard put a price on my head and now every two-bit criminal with a shtick is trying to gun me down–but it makes more sense to head …
Read More »Spaceship commercial shows off Star Citizens 4K visuals
This commercial for a ship in Star Citizen was made entirely with in-game assets, according to Developer Roberts Space Industries. The massively crowdfunded and massively multiplayer space combat game from the creator of Wing Commander is, graphically speaking, out of this world. RSI is developing the game with 4K resolutions …
Read More »Wii Party U review
Wii Party U, like Wii Party before it, is essentially Mario Party minus the personality and pizazz. Its Mii-centric cast brings with it a slew of new minigames and modes that make the best of what the Wii U has to offer, tapping into GamePad’s unique functionality in addition to …
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