Here be dragons

Penn Badgley ( Gossip Girl , Easy A ) will play Jeff Buckley in the biopic Greetings From Tim Buckley. There have been rumours circulating for months as to who will play the legendary singer-songwriter; the most likely candidates were said to be Robert Pattinson or James Franco. It turns …

Spider-Man! Liam Neeson! JK Rowling! Here’s a news round-up to tide you over before day’s end… WARNING: SOME SPOILERS!

It seemed destined to be the winter without rhythm games, with Rock Band and Guitar Hero on the backburner. But with Rocksmith, publisher Ubisoft seems poised to take advantage of really fortuitous timing to unleash a different kind of guitar game on the world. It’s not the first game to …

Brandon Sanderson picked up the Legend Award yesterday evening as the fantasy fiction world gathered at The Magic Circle

The first trailer for Moneyball , the real-life baseball drama starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, has landed online. If the words ‘real-life baseball drama’ have got you heading for the door already, stop and give this a chance, as it looks like a pretty unique spin on a well-worn …

Publisher Topware officially proved with the successful Two Worlds II that it can put together a top-notch game. After that milestone, what’s left to do but create another quality title, this time a sci-fi stealth/combat adventure in which you take on a corrupt religion? It’s called Scivelation, and while the …

While you could certainly make an argument that EA is nickel-and-diming customers with constant Sims 3 expansion packs, they’ve typically been meaty additions that add interesting gameplay to the Sims experience. The Sims 3 Generations, unfortunately, adds a lot of content, but not a lot of substance. Above: The abundance …

Here’s the behind-the-scenes trailer for the pack, which makes its XBL debut on June 28 with day-one downloaders treated to a double-XP weekend starting July 1. The trailer offers a few location-specific tips for the new multiplayer maps %26ndash; Hangar 18, Silo, Hazard and Drive-In %26ndash; and a look at …

Clash Of The Titans and Tamara Drewe star Luke Evans has joined Peter Jackson’s currently shooting adaptation of The Hobbit . Evans will play Bard the Grim (otherwise known as Bard the Bowman), a skilled archer and the son of a king. He single-handedly takes on dragon Smaug. Speaking of …