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Can’t get enough swords and mud? John Cooper overdoses on Ned, Geralt and mature fantasy

Winner: Shadows of the Damned Many in the Japanese games industry talk gloom and doom for their future, but if they’d all just shut up and make games as crazy, funny, action-packed, and unique asShadows of the Damned (opens in new tab), everything would be fine. Headed up by the …

As part of the SFX Summer Of SF Reading, here’s a short story from this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award winner

Duke Nukem, JK Rowling, Game Of Thrones and more – it’s this week’s Spurious Awards, hosted by Narin Bahar!

Perhaps it seems a bit silly to be complaining about how a game will soon devour everyone’s free time, especially in this age where games are mostly getting shorter and we’re always crying about how we’re not getting our $60 worth, but dammit, we’re still terrified of certain impending releases …

Echo Point (1995) Although she made her film debut a year earlier in Dallas Doll , Rose first got noticed in this Aussie soap. She starred as teenager Belinda O’Connor in this Home And Away wannabe. Echo Point also featured True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten before he landed a bigger part …

Aftereight videosand just as many hours, we’re finally entering the home stretch. Ocarina of Time’s closing moments are indeed some of the series’ best, with a climactic showdown between Link and Ganondorf, and then a truly awesome duel to the death with the latter’s final form. While I may bitch …

Yoda The Creature: The Jedi Master who makes his debut in The Empire Strikes Back . A tricky, powerful being, he speaks in an unusual manner that has been the subject of much scholarly study. Henson Magic: Frank Oz manipulated and voiced the Yoda puppet on Henson’s recommendation, and earned …

All gamers are carnivores and savages. Oh sure, some of us rarely eat meat in real life, but when we’re in a game, the thing we most want to see is our enemies turned into meat, the more rare and bloody the better. There’s something almost primal about seeing your …

Keep It Light Steve Schapiro : “This image was shot after the most violent scene in the film – the last sequence with all the shooting and stabbing and wrestling. “When Scorsese shouted ‘Cut!’, everyone just collapsed about laughing – it relieved a lot of the tension. “During filming, you …