Friday Night Lights star Adrianne Palicki has joined G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes as female lead Lady Jaye. Palicki recently starred as Wonder Woman in a TV pilot that wasn’t picked up, and she also appeared in awful Paul Bettany vehicle Legion . She joins recently-cast Dwayne Johnson in Joe sequel …

Winner: Shadows of the Damned Many in the Japanese games industry talk gloom and doom for their future, but if they’d all just shut up and make games as crazy, funny, action-packed, and unique asShadows of the Damned (opens in new tab), everything would be fine. Headed up by the …

As part of the SFX Summer Of SF Reading, here’s a short story from this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award winner

How do you like your gun-swinging, high-kicking witch protagonists to look?Happy witha figure-hugging catsuit made of hair that drops off a second’s notice? Or would you prefer a big set of sci-fi boots and a long coat? Or maybe something more akin to a Steampunk Harley Quinn would be more …

A young teacher from Sarajevo is caught up in the horrors of ethnic cleansing during the ’90s war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in this powerful debut from Irish director Juanita Wilson. Imprisoned at a makeshift detention camp, Samira (Natasha Petrovic) is gang-raped by her captors before coming under the ‘protection’ of a …

Director Michael Bay jumped to the defence of his Transformers movies when journalists dared to brand first sequel Revenge Of The Fallen a flop. During a press conference for the third Transformers film – subtitled Dark Of The Moon – Bay was asked if he was worried Transformers 3 would …

Duke Nukem, JK Rowling, Game Of Thrones and more – it’s this week’s Spurious Awards, hosted by Narin Bahar!

Splash Damage has dropped new screens and an updated release date for Brink’s upcoming DLC pack, Agents of Change. Originally scheduled toland this month, the developer has confirmed the content will arrive in “early July” for PSN, XBLA and Steam, and will be free to play for its first two …

Aftereight videosand just as many hours, we’re finally entering the home stretch. Ocarina of Time’s closing moments are indeed some of the series’ best, with a climactic showdown between Link and Ganondorf, and then a truly awesome duel to the death with the latter’s final form. While I may bitch …

Echo Point (1995) Although she made her film debut a year earlier in Dallas Doll , Rose first got noticed in this Aussie soap. She starred as teenager Belinda O’Connor in this Home And Away wannabe. Echo Point also featured True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten before he landed a bigger part …