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Portal 2’s turrets are so gosh darn charming, it’s easy to forget that their main function is to straight up murder your ass with cold, remorseless efficiency. Sadly, it’s this one small detail that makes them all but impossible to market in the real world, but one Canadian tinkerer has …

Warners pumps in more money to a) give the movie a final spit and polish or b) get the FX up to scratch – delete as per your cynicism

Jodie Foster has been doing the promotional rounds on The Beaver this week, which means the press have been attempting to milk her for details about new sci-fi Elysium . The sophomore feature from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, the project is pretty much under lock and key, with only …

Javier Bardem has officially signed on to star as Roland Deschain in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower , surprising literally nobody. This is no normal casting news however, as the project is planned as an ambitiously huge franchise. As well as a trilogy …

Matt Smith, Robert Sheehan and Lauren Socha among the nominated actors…

There are tentative plans for a new series, with Rod Serling’s involvement. Hang on, isn’t he… erm…?

Tom Cruise is set to get all political on us in a new, as-yet-untitled film from Dan Fogelman, the writer of Disney’s Tangled . Cruise has signed on to star as a hitherto squeaky clean politician who is caught having an affair, and returns to his hometown a broken man. …

“If there’s anything that’s killing us [in the traditional games business] it’s dollar apps,” admitted Capps in an interview withIndustryGamers, (opens in new tab)continuing, “How do you sell someone a $60 game that’s really worth it … They’re used to 99 cents. As I said, it’s an uncertain time in …

Tim Hetherington, photojournalist and co-director of Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo , has been killed in Libya. He was covering the ongoing fighting between Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and the opposition. Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros, 41, was also killed. The pair were among 8 to 10 journalists reporting in Misrata when the …

Chris, Tyler and Lizzie are joined byPC Gamer (opens in new tab)’s Evan Lahti and Anthony Valva for a SPOILER-FREE look at Portal’s brain-wrenching co-op mode. Get this straight, readers: Several of us in the office have played through Portal 2 several times already. I personally played through myself and …