Here’s an obvious fact: There’s a whole lot of fighting games slated to release in the next year, including quite a few big names and sequels. Sega recently threw its hat into this increasingly crowded ring with the announcement of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown for Xbox Live Arcade and …

The Pokemon world championships event always brings a high level of excitement and grandeur, but this year was particularly special. The USA’s own Ray Rizzo made Pokemon history when he took top prize in the masters league for the second year in a row, a feat that’s especially incredible given …

Sean Cregan has been carving his name out at the premier purveyor of “biohazard noir”. His latest sci fi thriller, The Razor Gate, out next week in paperback, and we have a chat with him

Hire unknown actors Why? We know damn well that Steven Seagal (or whoever) didn’t really perish in a poorly-shot frenzy of snot and screaming while on a spook-hunting weekend down a disused mineshaft last summer. We know this because we saw him several months later in that new thing where …

The sun was beaming in Seattle last Friday as streams of beautiful, smiling faces poured into the convention center to kick off PAX Prime 2011. But hidden away in a dark, echoing service corridor, a quieter energy buzzed. Editors paced and gestured and gave hushed speeches to walls. Filmmakers crouched …

Having tackled one beloved English literary heroine in Alice In Wonderland, rising star Mia Wasikowska promptly has a crack at another in the latest take on Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel. The elegant, brooding results could hardly be further removed from Tim Burton’s baroque whimsy, or from 2009’s Sin Nombre, the …

Without question, the two God of War games released on PSP are among the very best titles ever to appear on the handheld. That’s not just according to us, either; God of War: Chains of Olympus still stands as the highest-rated PSP game of all time on Metacritic, and while …

As we reported yesterday , a first teaser trailer has been released by Lionsgate for upcoming adaptation The Hunger Games . And whilst footage of Jennifer Lawrence in action was undoubtedly enough to pique the interest, many fans were underwhelmed by the lack of substance on display in this slightest …

The MMO-FPS Firefall has started its closed beta testing, taking the game into the final dev stage before opening up to the public. While developer Red 5 is starting off with a small number of testers, the game will gradually to open up to more and more players as the …

Romain Duris, best known on these shores for The Beat My Heart Skipped and Heartbreaker , will join Audrey Tautou in Michel Gondry’s next French language film L’Ecume Des Jours . Gondry and Tautou have been attached to the project for a few months now, but with Duris’ arrival on …