There’s plenty to keep a new adventurer busy in the world of Gransys, but unfortunately it’s not all glam and glory. There are tons of quests throughout the three chapters of Dragon’s Dogma, and while some may have you scaling the back of a golem as it tries to smash …
Read More »Tokyo Jungle preview – paws-on with an apocalyptic PSN import
Weeds are growing through the cracked Tokyo pavement. Water collects in potholes. A wild pig stops for a drink. He’s timid, twitchy, drinking carefully and trying to stay aware. He has good reason to be nervous. We are stalking him. We are hiding in this newly formed underbrush. We are …
Read More »Victim review
Bored with school in the Home Counties, middle-class Tia (Ashley Madekwe) takes her gap year in sunny south London, moving in with chav cousin Davina and a gang of teenage armed robbers. As Tia falls for brooding pack leader Tyson (Ashley Chin) – trying to raise his little sister and …
Read More »Wii U will support free-to-play games says Iwata
Though many long-time Nintendo fans will likely recoil in horror, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said today that the Wii U’s architecture will support free-to-play gaming if developers are interested in leveraging that business model. With respect to the Wii U system, when we began working on it, one of our …
Read More »Fast Girls review
Surprisingly slow out of the blocks, this glossy, girl-power athletics drama about the UK relay-team rivalry between feisty council-estate sprinter Shania (Lenora Crichlow) and her posh rival Lisa (Lily James) feels like a TV movie on steroids. Noel Clarke, who co-scripted and co-stars, doesn’t get any Kidulthood -style grit going, …
Read More »21 Naff Sci-Fi Deaths
Here, in no particular order, are some of those deaths… Feature by Steven Ellis (Oh, and feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section… there could easily be a sequel to this feature!) (opens in new tab) 1 Tasha Yar Star Trek: The Next Generation , “Skin …
Read More »Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate 3DS preview 2.5D Dracula destroying
Don’t call it a port, and definitely don’t call it a remake. Though the 3DS follow-up to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow harkens back to the classic two-dimensional Castlevania entries, it’s forging a decidedly-Western-style path for itself – and that’s not at all a bad thing. Ever since it was revealed …
Read More »50 Greatest Movie Director & Star Collaborations
Francis Ford Coppola & Robert Duvall The Shared CV: Duvall’s performance in Coppola’s The Rain People was rewarded with roles in all of the director’s 1970s films. All four just happen to be classics. Defining Traits: The ever versatile Duvall moved from playing watchful Tom Hagen in the first two …
Read More »StarCraft 2: Heart of Swarm Multiplayer Units Preview
StarCraft II: Heart of Swarm still doesn’t have a release date and neither does its “sometime in summer” beta, but Blizzard was eager to demo the expansion’s new multiplayer units in Anaheim, CA. There, thousands of MLG players were able to build and take command of these new units, while …
Read More »Cosmopolis review
A hard-bodied hooker with a laser-sighted weapon. Robert Pattinson blasting a bloody hole through his left hand. A pounding nightclub. A man stabbed in the eye. A modified handcannon. Naked bodies. A giant rat prowling crowded city streets. Gunfire. Graffiti. Tantalising images flash by in the teaser for Cosmopolis , …
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