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The stats on the number of women working in the film industry are always depressing. Female directors, in particular, are thin on the ground but since the 90s, the number of female screenwriters and directors has, somehow, gone down. So thats bad news. Whats the good news? Well, at least …

Who needs brand loyalty? Games can be a welcome escape, one where we steal cars, fly through space, or become anime lawyers. Yet so many licensed sports games force you to play football, baseball, and soccer the way the NFL, MLB, and FIFA want. Those simulations have their place, but …

Infinity Runner is a first-person auto-runner game, pitched up somewhere between Mirror’s Edge and Temple Run, I’d say. It’s set on a space station and, sometimes, your nude player-character turns into a werewolf who can wallrun. I’m a fan of this entire concept. But do you know what I’m an …

Today sees the release of Forza Horizon 2 presents Fast & Furious, a condensed nugget of fuel-injected beauty from Playground Games. It’s also that increasingly common thing, a standalone DLC pack, derived from the game it uses for its name, but different enough to warrant opening it up to a …

“Bah!”, we moan every November, with blindly religious fervour. “Call of Duty! Again! It’s the same again, because Call of Duty is always the same, and that’s just lazy and stupid. Let’s complain smugly until the collective power of our complaints makes it go away”. And you know what? We’re …

Felicia Day is a serial overachiever, the kind of person you might resent if she didn’t have such a disarmingly likeable manner. The 35-year-old actor, writer and producer created her own successful original web series The Guild (inspired by her obsession with World Of Warcraft), contributed voice acting to Fallout: …

Founder and CEO of Frontier Developments, David Braben, had a busy GDC, picking up awards and announcing the release of massive space MMO Elite: Dangerous (opens in new tab) on Xbox One later this year. Initially revealed as an Xbox exclusive, Braben later admitted on Twitter that PlayStation owners will …

My own feelings towards Driveclub will always be a bit… complicated. As a lifelong racing game fan I approached it with equal parts enthusiasm and intense scrutiny. A scrutiny which the game absolutely stood up to during my review process, which took part on the game’s public servers prior to …

More out of 4 Sonys newest generation of hardware is a huge step up from the PS3, and I dont just mean graphically. The PS4 interface is leagues ahead of the old XMB, with more straightforward menus and system updates – how did we live with those old system updates? …

On Friday 20th March, a Tumblr page (opens in new tab) was discovered, featuring little more than a countdown clock and a Halo 5: Guardians logo. On Sunday 22nd March, that countdown ended, beginning what’s looking like 12 full weeks of teasing reveals about Halo 5: Guardians, collected under the …