Making games is a business: an audience-dissecting, number-crunching business. One of Shenmue’s great victories, despite its drawn-out development and expenses more intimidating than its hero’s fixation with sailors, was that it never felt like the product of stats and suits. It felt like an unflinching, near-suicidal labour of love, and …

James Gunn took to Periscope yesterday to discuss plans for the sequel to Guardians Of The Galaxy, and instead of adopting the usual bigger / better / louder approach, he has revealed that the new film will actually include fewer characters than its predecessor. “Listen, one of the main things …

Second chance sci-fi Sequels. Love em or hate em, theres no getting around them. Where theres a sizeable box office taking, there shall be a sequel! And one such genre that spawns future instalments like theyre going out of fashion is science-fiction. From lo-fi indies to mega-blockbusters with budgets that …

Samuel L. Jackson has been discussing his experiences shooting Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, and has revealed that the director took the extraordinary step of refrigerating the set to recreate the film’s wintery climate. “All of us are so anxious to see this movie because, every day, the work was …

GTA Online (opens in new tab) players will learn the true meaning of “conspicuous consumption” with Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 next week. Rockstar has revealed a gaggle of the new clothes, guns, and rides headed to GTA 5 (opens in new tab)’s multiplayer counterpart in its latest expansion across all …

That new game Take Two was teasing has been revealed (opens in new tab) as XCOM 2, a sequel to Enemy Unknown. An early mention of splicing had many (okay me) hoping it might be a new Bioshock (opens in new tab)when it was first shown, via a mysterious website …

Da-da da da-da-Da. You probably just read that to the tune of the Mario theme. And, apparently, there’s quite a specific reason why, according to music theorist Andrew Schartmann. And he knows about this sort of thing, having written a book on it (opens in new tab). His theory is …

PT (opens in new tab) gets forcibly disappeared, Silent Hills gets cancelled – Allison Road is either a deeply lucky or unlucky game, depending on how you look at it. A photo-realistic, first-person horror experience (currently planned for release on PC in 2016, with console versions “almost certain”), it was …

UPDATE: ONI’s been spreading misinformation again. The official Halo Twitter account has issued an apology for the ODST remaster listing, saying that it was an erroneous placeholder that was put out too soon. Unless the add-on comes within a few days, it looks as though 343’s hopes for a May …

Another behind-the-scenes image posted to Bryan Singer’s Instagram has confirmed the appearance of a fan-favorite mutant set to appear in X-Men: Apocalypse. This murky shot depicts the lair of Caliban – one of the underground mutants known as Morlocks. While it doesn’t feature the character in question, it’s still an …