No tea tables were upended – as a Nintendo euphemism for radical changes towards the end of a game’s development goes – during the making of Super Mario 3D World. Since 2005’s Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Nintendo EAD Tokyo has blossomed into one of the publisher’s finest assets, and it …

Last month we spotted the ‘in game purchases optional’ line on the Metal Gear Solid 5 preorder page (opens in new tab). Konami has since confirmed that microtransactions will be present in the game and the focus is very much on the word optional. “There are some microtransactions involved in …

Kyle be back. “Time-travel makes my head hurt,” yells Kyle Reese, midway through the mindbending Terminator Genisys. His words are sure to be echoed by a good few viewers. With an alternate timeline wiping out most of what you know about Skynet, Sarah Connor and those deadly Terminators, this fifth …

Joseph Gordon-Levitt took part in a Reddit AMA over the weekend, and took the opportunity to give an update on the Sandman adaptation, which seems to be ticking along nicely… “I think a big screen adaptation is a better idea and here’s why,” began JGL in response to the notion …

Think of sci-fi’s most memorable onscreen couples and chances are Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor are somewhere near the top of your list. The Terminator made stars of Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton, and their battle-scarred future-war veteran and big-haired damsel in distress lent James Cameron’s robot-assassin thriller some much-needed …

The Lab, which was formerly exclusive to GTA 5 (opens in new tab)’s PC version, will soon appear on radio dials everywhere – or everywhere in Los Santos and Blaine County, anyway. GTA 5’s console versions will get the new radio station along with the second part of the Ill-Gotten …

Frustrations with the pricing of Destiny’s forthcoming expansion, The Taken King, have come to a head – and now, Bungie would like to formally apologize. In a statement on the Bungie Weekly Update (opens in new tab), Taken King’s creative director Luke Smith wanted to atone for the way the …

Another superhero rumor has hit the web, this time concerning the status of Warner Bros./DC’s caped crusader. The folks over at Latino Review have scored intel claiming that the Batman spinoff – aptly titled The Batman – has secured a writer, a director AND a release date. If the report …

There was a trailer at E3 that had me scrambling for the sickbag. A trailer so sick and subversive that it made my stomach churn a little bit. Nope, not Doom; I’m talking about the campaign reveal of Halo 5: Guardians. Coming in to E3, there were already concerns amongst …

The Oscar-winning composer James Horner has died at the age of 61, following a plane crash in California on Monday morning. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Music, Horner won two Academy Awards for his work on Titanic, one for the film’s score and a second for co-writing Celine …