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Out on Friday 10 June It’s sayonara from Studio Ghibli. Melissa McCarthy takes charge. Michael Moore takes a tour of Europe. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of When Marnie Was There, The Boss, Where to Invade Next, Fire at Sea, Learning to Drive, Mother’s …

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6, episode 7 – The Broken Man (opens in new tab). Turn away now if you haven’t seen it yet.  Strong female characters are nothing new to Game of Thrones (opens in new tab), but this week’s episode (opens in …

Minor spoilers for Uncharted 4 follow. As a series, Uncharted isn’t really known for having overly developed characters. Incredible action, yes, stunning set pieces, definitely, and a grasp of scale that borders on genius, but deep interpersonal storytelling? Less so. Nate gets written off as a sociopath a lot, given …

Note: Mild thematic spoilers for Uncharted 4 are discussed ahead. If you haven’t played it yet and want to go in completely fresh, turn back now.  Being brutally honest, until The Last of Us (opens in new tab), I never bought Naughty Dog’s reputation as a master storytelling studio. The …

What is Hideo Kojima’s new game? Update: Kojima Productions have unveiled an official Twitter account (opens in new tab) ahead of the E3 games show, plus teased a new image of their mascot Ludens (opens in new tab), with his face partially revealed. Sleuths are suggesting the character’s eyes resemble …

Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) thrives on its bad guys. Without them everything would be lovely and wonderful in the land of Westeros. We all thought we’d seen the worse villain to ever grace our TV screens when Thrones invited evil King Joffrey to make our skin crawl …

Out on Friday 20 May The X-Men take on Apocalypse. Tom Hanks is a desert worrier. John Carney does it once again. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of X-Men: Apocalypse, A Hologram for the King, Sing Street, Heart of a Dog, Journey to the …

By Marshall Lemon Stop me if you’ve heard about this fantasy world before: Elves live in kingdoms among the wilds and are aloof compared to humanity. Dwarves life in mining communities beneath ancient mountains, and frequently bang heads with the elves. Humans are the relatively new race that nobody really …

If you’re playing one of the latest crop of shooters, your character is more likely to be dressed in a neon jumpsuit than army fatigues. Your battle arena probably isn’t a dystopian hellscape, but a sun-drenched city or a jewel-toned forest. The modern shooter is embracing more than the grim …

Very few video games are entirely original. However much the average press release might like to talk about ‘innovative gameplay’, that is ‘built from the ground up’, to deliver ‘never before seen experiences’, all any of that actually means is ‘we made a new video game and we hope it’s …