This has been far too long coming, but finally a more readily available device for gamers with various disabilities has launched to join the best Xbox One accessories (opens in new tab). While it’s previously been possible to get set-ups for those with motor issues or other physical disabilities using …
Read More »“It’s an RPG before it’s a shooter”: CD Projekt Red’s Patrick Mills on Cyberpunk 2077’s first-person perspective, political storytelling, and tabletop inspirations
When CD Projekt Red announced back in 2012 that it was working on a Cyberpunk game based on Mike Pondsmith’s popular pen and paper role-playing game, and that it was working in collaboration with the man himself, imaginations ran wild just thinking about how this game would look when brought …
Read More »Total Film presents its top 20 films of 2018
Somehow, it’s that time of year again when we take a break from counting down the days to Christmas, and start counting down the top films of the last 12 months. Respected movie magazine Total Film (opens in new tab)’s staff and contributors have cast their votes, the scores have …
Read More »“There are no wrong choices”: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Creative Director on why making love, war, and hard decisions in Ancient Greece is so much fun
Nothing is true; everything is permitted. The Creed mantra that has guided the history-hopping franchise for the last 11 years. Well, while it kept Ezio, Bayek, Edward and co on the right track, Ubisoft itself has clearly taken the Creed to heart like a well-aimed arrow. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (opens …
Read More »5 things you need to know about Christmas zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse
There’s been enough zom-coms (and even zom-rom-coms) to feed a horror fan well beyond satisfaction over the last 14 years since Shaun of the Dead (opens in new tab) first hit theatres, but what happens when you throw Christmas cheer and a few song and dance numbers into the genre’s …
Read More »“The characters are pilots and mechanics” – Star Wars Resistance is leaving the Jedi behind for more down to Earth heroes
It’s sometimes easy to forget just how pure the appeal of Star Wars was back in 1977. George Lucas may have always had Joseph Campbell’s notion of the hero’s journey in mind for his sci-fi fairytale, but if you were a kid when you first saw the film now known …
Read More »“Hes not afraid to bite some heads off” – Venoms director on bringing back Marvels infamous anti-hero
As elevator pitches go, it’s a doozy. “They’re like two roommates who share a body,” says director Ruben Fleischer. “And sometimes that body can become a super-crazy black scary thing.” Welcome to the savage, psyche-splintering world of Venom (opens in new tab), the only hero in the Marvel firmament who …
Read More »“Like Indiana Jones on acid” – The Overlord cast on the movies secretive origins (and whether it was ever a Cloverfield spin-off)
The first thing you need to know is that Overlord is not a Cloverfield movie. Such were the whispers when motes of information first started to drift around the internet, and the scuttlebutt only intensified when the first trailer dropped in July. “No, it’s not a Cloverfield movie, and it …
Read More »Shadow of the Colossus is a cinematic masterpiece, but its true power could only come from a video game
If you were tasked with convincing someone that playing video games is time well spent, that these things are possessed of a potential for artistic expression equivalent to that of older forms of entertainment, then Shadow Of The Colossus (opens in new tab) might well be the game you’d use …
Read More »Why I love L.A. Noire’s fictional influences – the books, films and TV that made Rockstars crime sim
Crime adventure L.A. Noire (opens in new tab) is perhaps best remembered for its interrogation sequences, and the extreme ways the protagonist, Cole Phelps, can fly off the handle when you press the ‘doubt’ button during an interview. These muddled questioning sequences aside, though, L.A. Noire deserves to be hailed …
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