Review

Xenoblade Chronicles X is a strange game, even by JRPG standards. The distant planet of Mira is harsh and unforgiving, filled with verdant plains and giant beasts, and Xenoblade unceremoniously plops you into the middle of it all and expects you to figure most of it out on your own. …

There are plenty of firsts in “Sleep No More”. It’s the first found footage episode of Doctor Who, the first not to feature the show’s famous title sequence and the first standalone episode of series nine. It’s also the first episode this series that fails to hit the mark, despite …

The Walking Dead has had extremely high standards the last couple of years, so when a duff episode comes along it’s all the more noticeable. “Now” isn’t the show’s worst hour (I think we’ve almost forgotten how much of a slog season two was…), but in terms of importance to …

Following last year’s unexpected heel turn, the WWE 2K series is in dire need of a Daniel Bryan-esque comeback. A severely outdated roster, a meagre selection of match types and a barebones creative suite left fans pining for the glory days of Here Comes The Pain and the original Smackdown …

This year has been all about playing with the format of two-part stories. But while “The Witch’s Familiar” and “Before The Flood” continued the tales set up in their respective first parts, “The Woman Who Lived” is an entirely separate entity, the only continuing elements being the Doctor, Maisie Williams’ …

When it comes to fear, the Fatal Frame series usually follows the mantra that less is more. Telling you you’re trapped in a strange place and must find a way out before horrific paranormal beings kill you is a perfect recipe for fright that doesn’t require extra dressing. Unfortunately, the …

Occasionally, Guns, Gore & Cannoli’s lead character, Vinnie Cannoli, will eat an actual cannoli. Upon doing so, you’ll hear Vinnie Cannoli, through a mouthful of cannoli, say, “mmm! That’s a good cannoli!” After the third time hearing this, I found myself wondering if the game’s title was referring to Cannoli …

Doctor Who has done ghost stories before, base-under-siege stories before, and stories with underwater menaces before. Here’s one combining all three, and it’s a tense, claustrophobic affair, well shot and edited but bordering on exhausting and, visually speaking, oppressively gloomy. Toby Whithouse’s fifth script for the show might be full …

“Why do you walk on the wire? Pourquoi?” asks high-wire walker Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), direct to camera in the opening moments of The Walk. It’s a question audiences may want to ask director Robert Zemeckis, whose colourful but unsteady drama tells the tale of Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between …

Lives less ordinary… “I’ve no idea how to tell this story,” says Thomas Mann’s Greg as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s sweetly sarcastic, deeply felt adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ YA novel begins. And as the alarm marked “unreliable narrator” howls none too subtly, a sense of relief also kicks in. Too many recent …