Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Atlus’ remake of the DS original, has a new trailer which reveals that the game’ll be available for North American players on August 23. The game’s three biggest selling-points – higher-resolution graphics, fully-voiced script and another day added to the story – are hard …

Adam Sandler is getting in on the vampire movie craze by voicing Dracula in new animated flick Hotel Transylvania . Samurai Jack director Genndy Tartakovsky is at the helm of the 3D movie, which finds Dracula now the proprietor of ‘five-stake’ monster resort Hotel Transylvania. Complications arise when an ordinary …

An impressionistic, heavily improvised portrait of a working-class suburban Baltimore community, in which a teenager has recently died of a heroin overdose. Featuring mostly non-professional actors, Putty Hill mixes fiction with documentary devices (such as characters responding to an unseen interviewer). There’s little in the way of story; director Matt …

G iovanni Ribisi has joined the cast of 1940s crime drama Gangster Squad . The Avatar actor joins an already diamond constellation of actors that includes Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and (possibly) Bryan Cranston. Ribisi is a great character actor who’s boosted many a …

Panasonic Marketing Director Andrew Denham has criticised Hollywood for releasing substandard 3D movies. At the recent Intellect Consumer Electronics show he made some pretty scathing remarks “It all comes back to quality,” Denham said. “Hollywood damaged 3D by rushing so many badly converted films out in the Avatar ‘s wake.” …

Good news for gentlemanly purveyors of devious puzzles, fine teas and refined animated cinema. Viz Media, a San Francisco company specializing in the localization of Japanese entertainment for English speakingconsumers, announced during theAnime Expo 2011 (opens in new tab)in Los Angelesit will be bringing the anime film Professor Layton and …

Above: Muggy, a plucky securitron with a penchant for coffee cups Old World Blues moves the action into the Big Empty, where players will explore pre-War research centers for secrets to their past, and ancient technology which could either blow old enemies to smithereens, or be a vital tool in …

Can’t get enough swords and mud? John Cooper overdoses on Ned, Geralt and mature fantasy

So what do critics know?

Friday Night Lights star Adrianne Palicki has joined G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes as female lead Lady Jaye. Palicki recently starred as Wonder Woman in a TV pilot that wasn’t picked up, and she also appeared in awful Paul Bettany vehicle Legion . She joins recently-cast Dwayne Johnson in Joe sequel …