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Praise be, readers. The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 is here. If your skin just chilled a few degrees at that greeting then you know the power of novelist Margaret Atwood’s prose – or you were transfixed by the TV adaptation of her dystopian exploration of misogyny and corrupted religion, The …

I definitely cried. Maybe you even cried. Who can blame us? Seven years ago one of the most talked-about trailers for a little-known game called Dead Island (opens in new tab) emerged, presenting gamers everywhere with a tragic tale of a family vacation gone wrong. Featuring sections that played in …

Hear ye, assemble and mourn, for alas it has happened again. Yes, friends, it has come time for another undeserving name to be nailed to the rotting, blood spattered monument to Amazing TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time. And it is, once again, all your fault. Possibly. Either way, I …

Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re probably ready to mount my head on a pike for suggesting that spoilers can increase your enjoyment of a movie, TV show, or game. And by no means am I suggesting we should start blurting out spoilers as soon as we get our hands on …

It’s probably best if you don’t try to understand everything in the Legion season 2 episode 1, and just go along with it. You’ll definitely enjoy it more that way. If anything, it feels like the showrunners have gone even more arthouse and conceptual with season 2, and the first …

There’s no denying that Sea of Thieves (opens in new tab) is great fun. Whether you’re having a vomit fight with your crew, sailing a ship under the Northern Lights, defeating a skeleton crew or finding buried treasure, if you do anything in Sea of Thieves with friends, it’s an …

In case there was any doubt, Ernest Cline is a massive geek. Ready Player One (opens in new tab) is an ode to some of the nerdiest (and best) movies, video games, and more from the ‘80s and beyond, and its author is every inch the fanboy you’d expect him …

Money doesn’t buy everything. It can’t buy you respect, love, or happiness…but it can buy you something so horrendously grotesque that it’ll make any guests you have shrivel up their nose in disgust, as if they’ve smelt the corpse of a deceased family pet and can now see it stretched …

It looks like all those claims about apocalypses being cancelled were premature. The brave men, women and giant robots [aka Jaegers] of the Pan Pacific Defense League may have sealed the breach between dimensions that brought city- crushing Kaiju to planet Earth en masse, but it seems you can’t keep …

Burnout Paradise Remastered is out now on PS4 and Xbox One, so we’re taking a look back at the original racer 10 years on. Burnout Paradise was the first game I ever lovingly shoved into my first console’s disc slot. And in many ways, Burnout Paradise and I are actually …