Big changes are coming to your PS4 tomorrow. Sony announced that PS4 update 3.00 (codenamed “Kenshin,” if you’re trying to keep up with the Japanese-sword themed update monikers) will be released on September 30, adding support for Twitter video sharing (opens in new tab), YouTube streaming, and ten times as …

I liked Project Spark back in the day. There was a powerful and interesting pictographic programming language under that cutesy exterior, although I was never a fan of the limited object options. You couldn’t build or craft customs things, limiting you to whatever kits and bits the game gave you. …

Whether you’re oogling some of the best user-created levels out there or cringing at some of stinkiest abominations, Super Mario Maker is proving to be one tasty treat. Sadly, there was a sour note from the oddly time gated content – something that was seemingly patched out or changed almost …

“Why do you walk on the wire? Pourquoi?” asks high-wire walker Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), direct to camera in the opening moments of The Walk. It’s a question audiences may want to ask director Robert Zemeckis, whose colourful but unsteady drama tells the tale of Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between …

As with almost everything about the new Star Wars film, Domhnall Gleeson’s character General Hux is shrouded in mystery as director J.J. Abrams and the rest of the team try to prevent any major spoilers getting out. While Gleeson has no intention of going against this, Total Film magazine did …

First, there’s the origin story everyone knows. Following the success of Donkey Kong Country in 1994 a Super Mario World 2 prototype was rejected by Nintendo’s internal evaluation team and Shigeru Miyamoto was told to move the graphics in DKC’s pre-rendered direction. One year later, Yoshi’s Island was the result …

One of the differences between 2013’s grimy Tomb Raider reboot and this holiday’s Rise of the Tomb Raider (opens in new tab) won’t be obvious until you’ve seen the whole story. The primary writer behind protagonist Lara Croft, Rhianna Pratchett, was involved early in the project this time – and …

A new featurette has appeared online for Ash vs. Evil Dead, introducing the cast of new characters with a glut of new footage. And of course, alongside the newcomers, there’s also plenty action from everyone’s favourite one-handed badass. As well as introducing the supporting players, the new video also makes …

Out of time Note: A earlier version of this article was published in December 2013. By golly, that Metal Gear Solid 5 certainly looks sumptuous now doesn’t it? Even on the old school systems! Who’d have thought that a title as singularly ambitious as this could still appear so sweet, …

One of the horror genre’s oldest rules of thumb is “don’t show people the monster”, because there’s nothing more unnerving than the devil you don’t know. Dreamt up by Turtle Rock and brought hideously to life with Valve’s aid (opens in new tab), the masterful Left 4 Dead takes that …