Pennywise is already the poster-boy for your nightmares, but it could have been worse. Much, much worse. The It movie (opens in new tab) shocked us and made us shudder in equal measure, except it was reasonably restrained compared to one cut scene that, let’s just say, puts the baby …

Destiny 2 (opens in new tab)’s Silly Walk emote was too silly for the game’s level geometry, which is probably why Bungie has removed it from the Eververse shop. The Bureaucratic Walk emote, which is an homage to John Cleese’s absurd gait in the “Ministry of Silly Walks” Monty Python …

Zero-gravity. Talking balls. A barrage of laser beams and ninja blades following your every move. There’s a lot to get used to in LawBreakers (opens in new tab), and while your old work experience boss at the printer factory was at least partially right about learning on the job being …

It would be easy to declare political comedy dead in the era of America’s parody-proof commander-in-chief, but master satirist Armando Iannucci proves there are still laughs to be extracted from the corridors of power in this jet-black Kremlin-com. Wilfully absurd, but scarily plausible, it chills and tickles while exploring the …

Like one of Vary’s over-enthusiastic little birds, I might be reading a bit too much into this theory. But hear me out. Cast your minds way back to season 1 of Game of Thrones, when Ned still had rosy cheeks and we all thought he was going to live forever. …

If you’ve got a great big horror gap in your life – or have just come back from behind the sofa after watching It (opens in new tab) – then Amazon’s new anthology series, Lore, might just be the ticket. Based on a long-running podcast series, the six episodes (out …

As we hurtle towards the busiest period of the gaming year, when you’ve literally got Super Mario Odyssey (opens in new tab), Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab) and Wolfenstein 2 coming out on the same day, we wouldn’t blame your wallet if it was crying in a corner …

No one is going to (ahem) force you to watch the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer (opens in new tab). Some of you want to go in blind and I respect that. But it’ll be hard to avoid the water-cooler talk and everyone just generally screaming about this …

Hearthstone is adding a new hero for Warlocks this Halloween – a gnome by the name of Nemsy Necrofizzle – and all you need to do to get her is play some Hearthstone while you relax and kick up your feet by the (virtual) fire. That’s not a euphemism or …

Mining into your heart Maybe you’ve never heard of Minecraft. But pretty everyone’s heard of Minecraft – even my mum knows what it is and she doesn’t know how to turn on my computer. The building/world exploration game that’s basically on every gaming platform you can think of, from PC …