Never before have we played an RTS where our troops could die of hypothermia. Then we got hands-on time with Company of Heroes 2. We’ve sung the praises of THQ and Relic Entertainment’s World War II strategy game in previous Company of Heroes 2 previews, but this was our first …

Mario basically invented sidescrollers. Sonic brought the genre into the 90s. of these iconic mascots have been bitter rivals since the console wars of the early 1990s, when Sega and Nintendo were exchanging heated ad campaigns, and schoolyards were divided over which character was the best. Recently both characters have …

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of James Bond on the big screen. To celebrate, SFX’s Nick Setchfield revisits each and every 007 adventure in a week by week countdown to Skyfall … MISSION 13: OCTOPUSSY (1983) INDIAN SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER Roger Moore suffered for his art on Octopussy . The imperishably …

Prepare to die even more, because the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is coming to PC later this month with new locations, enemies, and bosses to get frustrated over. The additional content takes you back through time, where you’ll get the chance to fight the Knight Artorias, a character …

The developers behind Monday Night Combat and Super Monday Night Combat have announced that they’ll be heading to Kickstarter to seek funding for their next project. CalledPlanetary Annihilation (opens in new tab), the title will be an RTS featuring huge battles based on the cult classic Total Annihilation. It’s not …

At the 2012 Pokemon World Championships – held this weekend in Hawaii – Pokemon virtuoso Ray Rizzo re-established himself as the dominant force in competitive Pokemon. Rizzo has now won the Championship three years running, and this year he and other top performers will actually be featured as downloadable trainers …

(opens in new tab) All C’s Collectibles is the only comic shop in Aurora, Colorado. As a result, they’ve found themselves front and centre in the press coverage of the horrific shooting at the town’s cinema. A number of the victims were their customers. One of their staff was in …

Keira Knightley is in talks to join the as-yet-untitled Jack Ryan reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab) . Should she sign on the line, the movie will mark her first blockbuster appearance since Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End . In the time that’s followed …

28 Weeks Later. Predator 2. xXx: State Of The Union . Just a few of the pictures that have tried to perpetuate a franchise without their original stars on board. To their number we can now add The Bourne Legacy , a continuation of the Robert Ludlum-inspired spy series without …

Having convinced America aliens were invading in 1938, Orson Welles mused on art-as-deception in this 1974 pic considered his last classic. Jumping off from a BBC commission about art forger Elmyr De Hory, Welles uses blink/ miss editing to stitch up a mischievous mash of mock-doc, magic show, lecture and …