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Tom Cruise signs on to star in political thriller

Tom Cruise is set to get all political on us in a new, as-yet-untitled film from Dan Fogelman, the writer of Disney’s Tangled . Cruise has signed on to star as a hitherto squeaky clean politician who is caught having an affair, and returns to his hometown a broken man. …

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Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington, photojournalist and co-director of Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo , has been killed in Libya. He was covering the ongoing fighting between Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and the opposition. Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros, 41, was also killed. The pair were among 8 to 10 journalists reporting in Misrata when the …

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine hands-on preview

Captain Titus and the Space Marines under his command have it rough. They’ve been raised from birth to defend the human race against the oncoming, never-ending swarm of bloodthirsty and warlike Orks. To make matters worse, they’re also being attacked by the devious and powerful followers of the Chaos Gods, …

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Portal 2 Co-op

Chris, Tyler and Lizzie are joined byPC Gamer (opens in new tab)’s Evan Lahti and Anthony Valva for a SPOILER-FREE look at Portal’s brain-wrenching co-op mode. Get this straight, readers: Several of us in the office have played through Portal 2 several times already. I personally played through myself and …

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Island review

Natalie Press (My Summer Of Love) is Nikki, a former tearaway who arrives on a remote Scottish island seeking revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Naturally, things don’t pan out as she planned when she finds her mum (Janet McTeer) and her half-brother (a revelatory Colin Morgan from teatime’s …

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