It’s disappointing when a game promises one thing and delivers another. StarCraft doesn’t offer the ability to craft astral bodies, Fable contains almost no patronizing insights into ethical conduct, and let’s not even start down the well-trodden “Final Fantasy, multiple sequels” path. But one title that does exactly what it …

Irish actor Cillian Murphy is in talks to join Wayfaring Strangers , a WWII-set thriller. An Irish-French co-production, the film sees a group of elite British paratroopers captured by German soldiers and held in a remote farmhouse, where a young Jewish couple have also taken refuge. Acting legend Sir Michael …

Guys. Guys. I don’t want to jump the gun and make a bunch of preemptive, hyperbolic statements, but I think Shadows of the Damned is going to be one of the coolest, craziest games of the summer. We’ve got a preview build in the office and in just the first …

Friday the 13th. Superstitiously the unluckiest day of the year. But in 1980, it proved to be particularly unlucky for a bunch of fictional summer camp councelors at the Crystal Lake resort, as a bloody reign of terror began in the first Friday the 13th movie. That legendary gore rampage …

The Wackness director Jonathan Levine has signed on to helm book adaptation Legend . Backed by CBS Films and Twilight producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, Legend is a proposed trilogy of books by Marie Lu. Though the first book in the series doesn’t hit shelves until November, Bowen and …

Sega has confirmed it will be releasing a redesigned version of Zoë Mode’s PSP spatial puzzler Crush for the Nintendo 3DS this Fall. The remake, oh-so-creatively called Crush3D, will make full use of the 3DS’ hardware, and include new puzzles, enemies and a hint system. Which is good, because if …

We usually like to relax while gaming, but Demon’s Souls did something to us that made the experience unique – it intimidated us and filled us with anxiety, and yet somehow that was a good thing. We can’t explain it, but the game managed to bring out our inner masochist. …

Russell’s been getting the review ready for Saturday and is so bubbling over with enthusiasm for the episode he couldn’t help but come up with some more snippets to get you excited as well

Oscar-winner Colin Firth is set to team up with Emily Blunt for an as-yet untitled comedy. The film will tell the story of ‘the story of two damaged souls fleeing their pasts who meet and break into empty homes to assume the identities of the absent owners. Over the course …

The Killer Elite has been picked up for US distribution by newly-minted Open Road, who are staking their worth on the action thriller, which stars Jason Statham, Robert DeNiro and Clive Owen. Seems like a pretty safe bet to us. The Killer Elite follows Statham’s highly-trained special-ops soldier as he …