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A new challenger approaches! There’s nothing better than adding a new face to your ranks. Whether you’ve recruited a new knight or unlocked some special character mode, it’s a great feeling knowing there’s more to a game than the starting roster. Nothing spices up a skating game like a Sith …

That’s a real jerk move Pokemon is all about the friendship and trust that can form between a young adult and a wild animal wielding magical powers. It’s the cornerstone of the franchise: that Pokemon aren’t just weapons or tools, but allies and friends. ‘You teach me and I’ll teach …

The Rest Of December’s Theatrical Releases The big movies out this month include Paddington, Electricity, Men, Women & Children, Exodus: Gods And Kings, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies and Unbroken. But here we review a selection of the other new releases. Remember to keep an eye out …

Wait dreaming no longer! Hallowe’en is a special time of year. So special, in fact, that we couldn’t let our celebratory Halloweek go by without making a very special effort to do a very special thing indeed. To that end, we’ve resurrected the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft, master of fevered …

There’s a bit at the beginning of Gears of War, appropriately referenced in our feature on inappropriate jump-scares (opens in new tab), in which Epic’s inaugural chainsaw carnival wrong-foots you with a hint that it might be a horror game. After trekking through Marcus’ deserted, decaying prison for a little …

Scream Rocket Torture–that most brutal application of pain–was first discovered by an unwitting ‘Adam 1’ in the biblical Garden of Eden. After accidentally pulling out a lock of Eve’s precious hair, Earth’s first woman quickly reciprocated with the old ‘bamboo up the fingernails’ treatment, followed by several hours of ‘electro-sponge’ …

The cheat is grounded Since time immemorial, video games have included cheat codes. A tiny handful of letters, numbers, and symbols let players experience their favorite games in ways that the developer may not have intended. Infinite lives. All the weapons. Oh, look, a tank just appeared! It’s a great …

Just give up already Whether I’m playing an FPS, full-blown MMO, RPG, or adventure game, there’s always an awesome-looking, powerful weapon that I want, but can’t have. Well, actually I can have it, but actually acquiring it takes so much freaking effort that fulfilling the requirements will break the very …

The Imitation Game The Film Benedict Cumberbatch kicks off the 58th London Film Festival with a biopic of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing. Why we’re excited to see it Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly and a moving real-life story about a wronged British war hero, The Imitation Game also marks the English language …

Onwards and upwards (usually) But not always. Because while games are an ever-evolving medium, constantly improving as new technology facilitates new creative possibilities, those progressive additions and upgrades which improve video games as a whole sometimes throw a big old spanner in the works too. Sometimes ideas which were only …